I just finished Gary Ditchburn's article on Dual-Degree Programs for
Librarians. I am on the verge of applying for library school and I was
interested in hearing other people's reaction to this article. His basic
premise is that although he used to think that dual-degree programs were
the best educational program for librarians, now Mr. Ditchburn believes
that the idea of a MLIS is inherently flawed and that there should not be
any graduate library school programs, only continuing ed training.
A few of the more inflammatory quotes:
"A student curious and capable enough to earn admission into a genuine
graduate program should be deterred from the library school path."p.24
"We no longer need and can no longer justify the LIS degree." p.24
"Supply-side education, driven by a need to maintain university programs
and departments, seems to be producing pseudo-professionals who are too
expensive to do the practical work, but not, as a rule, really prepared
for intellectual work." p. 24
Although Mr. Ditchburn has not deterred me from my path to library school,
I was curious what other people in the field thought of his ideas.
Andrea Bailey Cox
Assistant Visual Resources Curator
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