Hello Rachel,
This is excellent information, thank you very much! I see at the
CILIP Website that ALA/CLA-accredited programs allow graduates to
work in the U.K. and other parts of Europe, but I'm wondering if it
works the other way, too. Is the CILIP-approved degree in the U.K.
equally accepted in the U.S. and Canada? Perhaps I should dig around
on the ALA Website to ask this question the other way around, unless
someone knows a good ALA contact where I might direct it?
Thank you so much for your help, Rachel. Very interesting, indeed! I
have printed it off for her and she thanks you, as well.
Kind Regards,
Deborah (recent M.L.I.S. grad in Dec. '05)
At 2:32 PM +0000 3/9/06, Rachel Campbell wrote:
>I'm a Librarian in the UK, and finished my MA course 4 years ago. I've an
>MA in Information and Library Management which is accredited by CILIP, the
>Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, our equivalent
>of the ALA. CILIP has a list on their website of currently accredited
>courses in the UK -
>http://www.cilip.org.uk/qualificationschartership/Wheretostudy. It might be
>worth contacting either the ALA or CILIP to check how MLS/MA degrees
>compare. One of my colleagues is from the US, holds an MLS, and I've asked
>her about this. She seems to think that an MA or MSc in
>Librarianship/Library Managment from the UK is much the same as an MLS.
>She's never had any trouble finding employeers over here who are happy with
>her US qualification.
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