Cliff has a great post over on his blog about what students are learning in library school. Cliff points out that as an instructor in any LIS program you have to keep up with what’s going on in the library world – and then pass that info and those skills (the keeping up skills) on [...]

This panel was very very insightful. The panelists were all recent grads of the University of Washington’s iSchool. They were Alex Berta, Rebecca Blakewood, Ann Glusker, Elizabeth Gould, and Beth Sanderson. Joe Janes and Nancy Gershenfeld professors at the iSchool gave us an intro. University of Washington was the first school that decided to call [...]

I’m finally reading Everything in Miscellaneous – and it’s awesome. The irony is that I’m taking a two day subject cataloging class. While the instructor (who is awesome and full of energy) talks about how getting the most specific subject heading is our goal and having things in alphabetical order is good – I can’t [...]

It’s finally here – I promised that I’d write this ages ago, but I wanted to get my thoughts in order. When I started at Drexel a little over a year ago, I was completely panicked! I hadn’t been in school for 5 years and when I graduated last time I had sworn that I [...]

That’s right, the diploma has arrived! I am now a “real” librarian. My only complaint about this piece of paper – well – two complaints. First it’s too big – why is it so darn big? Second, shouldn’t it say “Master of Library and Information Science”? Anyway, it’s all over, back to my real (non-student) [...]

That’s right – I finally have the results for you. You can browse the survey results on Survey Monkey here, but I don’t feel that that gives you the full picture, so I did a little bit of analysis of my own. First, I went through and made school names conform to one standard (where [...]

That’s right folks, it’s official. I now have my final grades and am done with library school! I am now an MLIS graduate of Drexel University (and will be paying for the rest of my life). I’ve promised a what I learned in library school post – and it’s coming, I just wanted to get [...]

I’m working on cleaning up the results for this survey right now (making university names the same, etc) and I’m seeing a few people pointing me to the library websites for their required courses (“You can always look on the schools’ websites for this info.”). I probably need to clarify what I was interested in. [...]

I have gotten such an amazing response to my little survey on library education that I had to pay for a SurveyMonkey account – which means I’ll probably create a more in-depth survey to really get to the meat of what we’re all learning in library school – keep an eye out.

Lately, I’ve been talking to students at other library schools as well as library staff here as I do a bit of homework for my “What I Learned in Library School” post. I realized that I needed a bit more information so I’ve created a 5 question survey for library students and librarians. If you [...]