Education and library automation

Swanson, Don R.

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Title

Education and library automation

Author(s)

Swanson, Don R.

Issue Date

1967

Keyword(s)

• Libraries --Automation
• Library and information science education

Date of Ingest

2007-05-29T19:33:56Z

Abstract

"I shall try to develop in this paper a rationale for library education that will, I hope, have a direct bearing on certain major issues that have been of concern to the profession for perhaps half a century. These issues are reflected in questions such as: How much of the work performed by librarians really requires professional education; are professional librarians used effectively ? Is it practical to expect library education to deal in depth with subject specialities? If subject depth is acquired at the undergraduate level, let us say in chemistry, can the library profession hope to attract the better students, or is it more likely to attract those who have been unsuccessful in coping with their initially chosen specialty? That is, do not those who do well in chemistry usually become chemists ? What undergraduate specialty does indeed constitute the best preparation for graduate study in librarianship ? Is there a science underlying ""library science""? What does all this have to do with automation and data processing?"

Publisher

Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Series/Report Name or Number

Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (5rd : 1967)

ISSN

0069-4789

Type of Resource

text

Genre of Resource

Conference Paper / Presentation

Language

en

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