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During the last decade, the library profession has been confronted by a serious problem. More than 15 accredited graduate library schools in the United States have closed, including distinguished programs at the University of Chicago, the University of Southern California, and Columbia University. The closing of these schools raised critical issues about the future of the library profession, the place of library schools in higher education, and the role of libraries in society.
This book explores the causes and consequences of the recent closures of American library schools at a time when various other professional schools have expanded. The authors consider the theory that library schools have closed because of poor marketing and management and the theory that schools have closed because insufficient attention has been paid to the intellectual history and theoretical foundations of librarianship, leaving library school leaders with no guiding principle to assist in reforming the curriculum. The book places library schools in an historical context and discusses opportunities to reform library education.
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LARRY J. OSTLER is Assistant University Librarian for Administrative Services at the Harold B. Lee Library of Brigham Young University.
THERRIN C. DAHLIN is head of the Documents and Maps Department of the Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University.
J. D. WILLARDSON is Assistant to the Dean of the College of Education at Brigham Young University.
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In this interesting intellectual exercise, the authors present a "conceptual piece" that mostly is a summary of the history of higher education in the United States, with a particular focus on library schools. This overview sets the scene for today's library school dilemmas and the authors' proposal for three-tiered library education?bachelor-, master-, and doctorate-level programs. Their concept of what MLS programs ought to become is one-sided, focusing on information and technology needs to the point of removing the traditional concept of libraries. Their contention is that the term "information studies" removes the narrow focus on libraries as institutions. Their proposed solution is to ally the graduate study of librarianship with fields more focused on technological advances rather than any concept of service. Melvil Dewey's tradition of pragmatic education is bemoaned in search of a central theory that librarianship could adhere to, embrace, and promote to those who hold the university purse strings. Several appendixes comprise more than half the book. A compilation that presented a balanced variety of viable options for the future training of librarians in addition to the authors' own suggestions would have been of more value in the ongoing debate about the future of librarianship. Recommended for universities with library school programs and others interested in the future of their curricula.?Lisa Powell Williams, Moline P.L., IL.
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