LIS 502 - Tracking a Current Topic 

For background readings on education for professional fields, try searching databases in the discipline of education:

• ERIC (which can be searched simultaneously with LISA)
• Education Full Text (which can be searched simultaneously with Library Literature & Information Science Full Text).

Final Report, Library Education Task Force (PDF)

Under review now, this report calls for changes in LIS education to better prepare librarians. Includes an appendix, "Core Competences in Librarianship." Specifically recommends changes to ALA's Standards for Accreditation.

American Library Association. Office for Accreditation.

Extensive documentation of ALA's accreditation procedures and standards.

Association for Library & Information Science Education

The primary professional organization for professors of LIS. ALISE has issued an official statement responding to the ALA Library Education Task Force report.

iSchools

A caucus formed by the deans of "information schools." Includes both programs with roots in library science and those without such roots.