Re-envisioning the MLS : perspectives on the future of library and information science education / / edited by Johnna Percell, Lindsay C. Sarin, Paul T. Jaeger, John Carlo Bertot

• Pubblicazione: Bingley, England : , : Emerald Publishing, , 2018
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (260 pages)
• Disciplina: 020.7
• Soggetto topico: Library education; Language Arts & Disciplines - Library & Information Science - General; Library & information sciences
• Persona (resp. second.): PercellJohnna; SarinLindsay C.; JaegerPaul T., 1974-; BertotJohn Carlo
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- RE-ENVISIONING THE MLS: PERSPECTIVES ON THE FUTURE OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE EDUCATION -- Contents -- About the Contributors -- Editors' Introduction to the Advances in Librarianship Series -- CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION: RE-ENVISIONING THE MLS -- CHAPTER 2: CREATING A NEW ERA OF EXPANDED OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL: HOW LIBRARIANS CAN LEAD US THERE -- INTRODUCTION -- Exactly What do Librarians Bring to the Table? -- WHAT ARE THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY THINGS ABOUT LIBRARIES? -- Libraries Champion the Community's Freedom to Access and to Learn -- The Initiative, the Courage, and the Resilience of this Profession -- One Extraordinary Negative: Outmoded Professional Rules and a Tradition of Modesty -- EXPANDING THE MISSION THROUGH TRANSFORMATIONAL IMPACT -- Using Creativity and Applying Measurable Outcomes to Combat Summer Learning Loss -- Closing the Achievement Gap through Family Engagement -- A Game-Changer for Disconnected Youth -- Advancing the Economy, One Idea at a Time -- HOW CAN LIBRARIANS RISE TO THIS ONCE-IN-A-CENTURY OPPORTUNITY? -- Start at the Top: Develop Leadership with a Bold and High-Impact Vision for Librarians and Libraries -- Support a Profession-Wide Culture of Thinking, Fast and Slow, and a Skill Set to Understand and Do Basic Analysis -- Qualitative Analysis - The Data Essential for Demonstrating Libraries' Transformational Impact -- Respect and Understanding of Basic Quantitative Analysis, Evaluation, and Applying Research -- Applying Research in Decision Making and Service Development -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 3: CREATING MIRRORS AND DOORS IN THE CURRICULUM: DIVERSIFYING AND RE-ENVISIONING THE MLS -- INTRODUCTION -- REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE -- Diversity in Higher Education -- Curriculum Theory -- Culturally Responsive and Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies -- Counter-Storytelling -- THE STUDY. ; FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION -- CONCLUDING THOUGHTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 4: CRITICAL RACE THEORY IN THE LIS CURRICULUM -- INTRODUCTION -- BACKGROUND -- Critical Frameworks: Important Concepts for Library Students -- Whites Only: A History of Racial Exclusion in LIS -- From "Diversity" to Social Justice -- METHODOLOGY -- Creating the Course Sample -- Defining "Foundational Courses" -- ANALYSIS -- FINDINGS -- Stated Course Goals -- Number and Distribution of Readings -- Total Readings -- Critical Readings -- CRT Readings -- CRT as a Portion of the Curriculum -- Popular CRT Readings -- Textbook Readings -- DISCUSSION -- A Reflection of Institutional Values -- Broad Contexts for CRT -- LIMITATIONS -- CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 5: WHY IS THE CONVERSATION ABOUT LGBT STUDENTS' INFORMATION NEEDS STILL IN THE CLOSET? THE ROLE OF THE MLIS PROGRAM IN PREPARING CULTURALLY COMPETENT SCHOOL LIBRARIANS -- INTRODUCTION -- WHAT'S GOING ON? EXAMPLES AND STATISTICS -- ARE WE REALLY COMMITTED TO CREATING CULTURALLY COMPETENT SCHOOL LIBRARIANS? -- FROM LIP SERVICE TO LIBRARY SERVICE -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 6: INTEGRATING SOCIAL WORK PERSPECTIVES INTO LIS EDUCATION: BLENDED PROFESSIONALS AS CHANGE AGENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PROFESSIONAL BLENDEDNESS AS A CATALYST FOR CHANGE -- BLENDED PROFESSIONALS AS CHANGE AGENTS -- THE CASE OF LIS EDUCATION ON IMMIGRATION AND GAPS IN LIS CURRICULA -- A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF EXPERIENCES OF PUBLIC LIBRARIANS SERVING IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA -- WHY SHOULD LIS LEARN FROM SW? THE SHARED LEGACY AND PRESENT CONCERNS -- The Core Mission and Professional Status -- Effects of Professionalization -- Diversity of Careers, Interdisciplinarity, and Scientific Status -- New Skills for New Generations of Professionals -- WHAT CAN LIS LEARN FROM SW?. ; THE PERSON-IN-ENVIRONMENT APPROACH -- The Ecological Perspective/Framework -- Three Levels of Practice: Micro, Mezzo, and Macro -- THE STRENGTHS PERSPECTIVE AND EMPOWERMENT -- CULTURAL COMPETENCE, THE DIVERSITY PERSPECTIVE, AND THE NOTION OF INTERSECTIONALITY -- THEORY-MINDEDNESS AND THE INSEPARABILITY OF THEORY AND PRACTICE -- The Nature of LIS Publications on Immigration and Immigrants -- The Interdisciplinary Theoretical Base and Practice Models in SW -- The Meaning of Theory-Mindedness -- THE PERSON-IN-THE-LIBRARY-ENVIRONMENT: THE CASE OF SOPHIA -- LIS COURSES ON IMMIGRATION AND BROADER IMPLICATIONS FOR THE LIS CURRICULUM -- General Theoretical Knowledge -- Context-Specific Knowledge -- Conceptual Approaches -- Practical Applications -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 7: EDUCATING LIBRARIANS: APPLYING THE CARNEGIE FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF TEACHING APPRENTICESHIP MODEL TO THE EDUCATION OF LIBRARIANS -- INTRODUCTION -- CARNEGIE FOUNDATION AND THE APPRENTICESHIP MODEL -- THE THREE APPRENTICESHIPS OF PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION -- The First Apprenticeship - Knowledge -- The Second Apprenticeship - Skills -- The Third Apprenticeship - Identity -- ANALYSIS OF THE APPRENTICESHIP MODEL -- THE APPRENTICESHIP MODEL AND LIBRARIAN EDUCATION -- First Apprenticeship of Librarianship - Knowledge -- Second Apprenticeship of Librarianship - Practice -- Third Apprenticeship of Librarianship - Identity -- WHAT A PROGRAM BASED ON THIS MODEL COULD LOOK LIKE -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX A -- APPENDIX B -- CHAPTER 8: TECH-SAVVY LIBRARIAN VERSUS (LIBRARY) TECHNOLOGIST: UNDERSTANDING THE FUTURE ROLE OF LIBRARIANS IN TECHNOLOGY PRACTICE -- INTRODUCTION -- LITERATURE REVIEW -- RESEARCH STUDY DESIGN -- RESULTS -- Job Advertisements -- Changes to Technology-Related Course Offerings -- Technology Skills Desired by Current LIS Practitioners -- DISCUSSION. ; RQ1. What Technology Skills Do Librarian Positions Require Compared With Library Technologist Positions? -- RQ2. What Are the Recent Trends in the MLS Technology Curriculum? -- RQ3. What Technology Skills and Concepts do Current Information Professionals Desire to Learn? -- Limitations -- IMPLICATIONS FOR THE MLS -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 9: ARCHIVAL RECORDS AND TRAINING IN THE AGE OF BIG DATA -- INTRODUCTION -- THE CASE FOR A NEW TRANSDISCIPLINE -- MOTIVATING CASE STUDIES -- Evolutionary Prototyping and Computational Linguistics -- Takeaways for CAS/MLS Education -- Graph Analytics, Digital Humanities, and Archival Representation -- Graph Analytics in Archives -- Takeaways for CAS/MLS Education -- Computational Finding AIDS -- Takeaways for CAS/MLS Education -- Digital Curation -- Takeaways for CAS/MLS Education -- Public Engagement with (Archival) Content -- Takeaways for CAS/MLS Education -- Authenticity -- Takeaways for CAS/MLS Education -- Confluences between Archival Theory and Computational Methods: Cyberinfrastructure and the Records Continuum -- Takeaways for CAS/MLS Education -- Spatial and Temporal Analytics -- Takeaways for CAS/MLS Education -- TEACHING OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE NEW MLS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 10: TEACHING IN LIBRARIES: NOT AN ELECTIVE PART OF THE JOB -- INTRODUCTION: THE DEMANDS OF TEACHING WITH ANOTHER NAME -- LIBRARIANS HAVE ALWAYS TAUGHT, THEY JUST DON'T CALL IT THAT -- TEACHING DEMANDS HAVE ONLY INCREASED -- READY, WILLING, BUT UNPREPARED -- A CASE FOR DEVELOPING CURRICULUM -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 11: MAKING THE GRADE: SHOULD MLIS PROGRAMS PREPARE INFORMATION PROFESSIONALS FOR SUCCESS AS EDUCATORS? -- INTRODUCTION -- RELEVANCE AND POLICY -- EDUCATION AND LIBRARIANSHIP -- EDUCATORS IN PRACTICE -- CURRENT MLIS COURSE OFFERINGS -- CONTINUING EDUCATION -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES. ; CHAPTER 12: PHOENIX OR DODO? RE-ENVISIONING CATALOGING EDUCATION -- INTRODUCTION -- A BRIEF HISTORY OF CATALOGING EDUCATION -- CURRENT SUPPORT FOR CATALOGING EDUCATION -- THE CATALOGING PHOENIX -- THE RE-ENVISIONED CATALOGING CURRICULUM -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES.
• Sommario/riassunto: At the heart of any discussion about the future of libraries is the future of librarians and how well our instructional programs, especially the Master of Library Science (MLS) degree, prepare them for their careers. Building on the Re-envisioning the MLS initiative from the University of Maryland's iSchool and the Information Policy & Access Center (iPAC), this book continues the critical conversations around preparing future librarians. Library and information science (LIS) programs are the foundation of librarianship, and their design requires input from everyone in the field - from academics designing programs and courses, to practitioners reflecting on how prepared (or unprepared) they are to serve their communities, to hiring authorities considering qualifications of candidates. The second installment of this two-part volume explores many of the challenges and opportunities inherent in the future of the MLS degree, including: the changing nature of the communities that libraries serve and how LIS education should address these changes; how archival training must accommodate big data; the specialized skill sets librarians need on the job, and how best to prepare librarians for their role as educators. These conversations will never be fully resolved, as LIS education must continue to evolve to ensure the efficacy of libraries and the librarians at the heart of the work.
• Titolo autorizzato: Re-envisioning the MLS
• ISBN: 1-78754-886-4; 1-78754-884-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910820357603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Advances in librarianship ; ; v. 44B.