Twitter chat coming soon: join us!
Next week, 18:00 GMT on Wednesday 16th September is our next twitter chat. Our topic is the upcoming discussion topic on LIS Education and specifically “What I wish I’d learned in Library School”. With...
View ArticleDiscussion topic: What I wish I’d learned in library school (or: What’s the...
What I wish I’d learned in library school. Is there a topic closer to librarians’ hearts? However, it’s not unique to librarians – ask any professional in any job from journalism to veterinary science...
View ArticleLIS Education: through time and space
While doing some research for this discussion topic, I came across this very comprehensive look at the development of LIS education around the world. Presented as a slideshow, this takes quite some...
View ArticleLIS Education: Michelle De Aizpurua
Today’s post comes from a member of our ILN community, Michelle De Aizpurua, who has recently graduated with her LIS qualification from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. After finishing my...
View ArticleLIS Education: Twitter chat storified
Because the twitter chat was held at 4am Sydney time, I’m really grateful to our wonderful South African Country Ambassador Karen du Toit for hosting it for us. Looking back over the tweets the next...
View ArticleLIS Education: Stacey Mitchell on ‘going the distance’
Stacey Mitchell is a member of our ILN community and shares with us here her experience of studying online to get her library qualification. I live within driving distance of 2 ALA-accredited Masters...
View ArticleLIS Education: Library Schools old and new
We know from history that librarianship has been around for many hundreds of years. Today we are taking a look at a couple of library schools that are having birthdays this year and highlighting some...
View ArticleLIS Education: who decides on quality and standards?
How do you decide what’s a good LIS program? How do the many, many library schools out there ensure they are teaching the right things to their students? If you wanted to run your own library school...
View ArticleLIS Education: Sara Westhead on juggling study and family
Sara is one of our regular ILN participants and lives in Bermuda. Here she shares her story of going back to study for a career change: When I decided to go back to school, it was not a decision our...
View ArticleLIS Education: What’s next?
Ensuring professional training is up to date and relevant is crucial for any profession and we’ve looked at a few aspects of this over the past 2 weeks. There have been lots of studies, trend reports...
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