Archive for category LIS Education
What I Gained With My MLIS
As my Facebook and Instagram feeds are flooded with graduation photos, it’s time to reflect on my education, now that I graduated with my MLIS almost exactly a year ago. In the last few weeks, I’ve seen a lot of criticism of the MLIS curricula, and for good reason. Education is expensive and job outlooks [...]
Posted: 23 May, 2013 in First Year Academic Librarian Experience, LIS Education.
Comments: 3
Searching the Library Website and Beyond: A Graduate Student Perspective
This month’s post in our series of guest academic librarian bloggers is by Julia Skinner, a first year Information Studies doctoral student at Florida State University. She blogs at Julia’s Library Research. I just finished my MLS, and one of the issues raised frequently both in and out of the classroom was how to get [...]
Posted: 1 September, 2011 in Google, Graduate Students, Information Literacy, LIS Education, Student Issues.
Tags: internet, library website, searching
Comments: 6
This Librarian’s Blog Name Says It All
In a recent Sudden Thoughts and Second Thoughts I asked – in a not so direct way – what ACRLog readers wanted us to write about – and a few of you shared your thoughts – though I really didn’t expect that. One comment in particular stood out and I wanted to share it with [...]
Posted: 23 March, 2010 in Graduate Students, library careers, LIS Education.
Tags: employment, job_advice
Comments: 29
Assessment is the New Black
I’m teaching a course this semester for the Graduate School of Library & Information Science at Illinois called, “Libraries, Information, and Society.” Like similar courses, it presents an introduction to a number of core concepts for future information professionals, as well as an introduction to professional skills, values, and employment environments. This week, we heard [...]
Posted: 22 April, 2009 in Assessment, Just Thinking, LIS Education.
Comments: 1
What An Academic Librarianship Course Should Offer
A few weeks ago I invited ACRLog readers to participate in a survey which asked respondents to rate academic library course topics as essential, important or marginal. Respondents were also able to make suggestions for additional topics. Over a hundred readers responded to the survey. Here is what they had to say. First, some information [...]
Posted: 10 June, 2008 in LIS Education, Teaching.
Tags: academic librarianship course, LIS Education
Comments: 19
