Archive for 'LIS Education'
What Matters In An Academic Librarianship Course
A few weeks ago I questioned the value of a semester-long course on trend technologies along the lines of web 2.0 applications. I appreciated the comments to this post. ACRLog readers shared the value they received from LIS technology courses. More than a few people acknowledged the importance of technology courses for LIS students but [...]
Posted by StevenB on May 12th, 2008 under LIS Education, Professional Development.
Comments: 4
The Chronicles of Academia
I had the great honor recently to be invited to speak to a class at my alma mater (the LEEP Program at the University of Illinois). The Instruction class, taught by Melissa Wong, was finishing up their work and had myself and Chad Kahl of Illinois State University dialed in for a little Q [...]
Posted by Josh Petrusa on May 7th, 2008 under Faculty, Information Literacy, LIS Education.
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What Is The Value In An LIS Technology Course
As a part-time library science educator I pay attention to trends in LIS education. A notable one is the increase in courses that spend an entire semester introducing students to web 2.0 and other trend technologies. I ask ACRLog readers, many of whom are the future employers of LIS students, if this seems like [...]
Posted by StevenB on April 1st, 2008 under LIS Education, Professional Development, Technology Issues.
Comments: 17
What I DID Learn in Library School
Since earning my degree, I’ve seen lots of comments on listservs (NEWLIB) and posts on blogs (Annoyed Librarian and Chronicles of Bean) about what people think they should have/wish they would have learned in library school. There’s the endless debate over whether or not our Masters programs are preparing librarians well enough or even whether [...]
Posted by Melissa Mallon on February 10th, 2008 under Just Thinking, LIS Education, Uncategorized.
Comments: 14
Why Do I Teach (Dialog) in LIS?
There’s a meme going around in the faculty blogosphere in which folks are talking about why they teach their subject; Barbara Fister recently talked about why she is a librarian here on this blog. I’ll write more about why our faculty colleagues teach in a future post, but the meme started me thinking about [...]
Posted by Stephanie Willen Brown on January 31st, 2008 under LIS Education.
Comments: 10