Are Library Science Programs Preparing New Librarians? Creating a Sustainable and Vibrant Librarian Community

Perceptions of Scholarly Communication Among Library and Information Studies Students

“…These areas equate to new professional competencies, which have reasonable implications in terms of library education. Returning to Goodsett and Koziura's (2016) assertion that discussions concerning MLIS education should involve its students, the present study was conducted to solicit the perspectives of MLIS students on SC in terms of their professional education and career pathways. Importantly, study participants had self-selected to take SC courses in their respective MLIS programs.…”

“…While it is understood that library education must respond to changes in employer demands and emerging skills sets (Kim, 2015), the author of the present study returns to Malenfant's (2010) question of how new practitioners view SC in terms of their educational experience and professional pathways. As asserted by Goodsett and Koziura (2016), "A central voice in the discussion of the LIS degree should belong to those who both experience an LIS education and attempt to apply it in job searches and in the workplace" (p. 703). Still, previous research on perceptions of MLIS curricula is mainly focused on input from recent graduates, practitioners, and employers.…”

Preparing the Instructional Librarian: Representation of ACRL Roles and Strengths in MLS Course Descriptions

“…Goodsett and Koziura report in their 2016 study that, among 581 US librarians, the second greatest gap in LIS education involves a lack of courses on instruction; another was their feeling of being unprepared to work with emerging technologies. 20 In the past five years alone, nearly a dozen scholarly publications have been published that indicate the persistence of this problem. These include Hensley's 2015 presentation at the ACRL conference about the failures to adequately prepare instructional librarians, 21 Saunders 2015 study of ALA-accredited programs' instructional librarianship course syllabi, 22 and Goodsett and Koziura's 2016 survey of LIS programs' graduates.…”

A könyvtár- és információtudomány, valamint a könyvtárosképzés válaszai a gazdasági, társadalmi és technológiai kihívásokra

“…55 Ennek hatására a felsőoktatásnak is fel kell vállalnia a továbbképzéseket biztosító tanfolyami kereteket, 56 a külső partnerekkel való minden eddiginél intenzívebb kapcsolatépítést, a mentori rendszerek kialakítását. 57 Mindezekből kitűnik, hogy a LIS az átmenet időszakát éli: a könyvtári intézményrendszerhez való szoros kötődése miatt az ott kialakult negatív hatások a képzésben és az atipikus elhelyezkedésben is tetten érhetők. A hallgatókat az egész pályára képesítő dinamizmusra, az összetartó identitásra és érdekképviseletre szükséges felvértezni.…”