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Author Swigger, Boyd Keith, 1943-

Title The MLS Project : an assessment after sixty years / Boyd Keith Swigger
Published Lanham : Scarecrow Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (v, 163 pages)
Contents An overview of the MLS Project -- Goals of the MLS Project -- Librarians' standing : status, prestige, and income -- Recruitment of new librarians -- Intellectual foundations and library schools -- Librarians' work -- Librarians and professionalism -- What could be done?
Summary In 1951, the American Library Association (ALA) Council approved new standards for accrediting library education programs. These standards shifted accreditation from the bachelor's degree to the master's degree, making the master's degree in library science the professional credential for entry into the profession. At the time, librarians believed this change would transform the practice of librarianship, the nature of library education, and the social standing of librarianship as an occupation. In The MLS Project: An Assessment after Sixty Years, Boyd Keith Swigger examines the reasons the A
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Library education -- United States -- Evaluation
Library schools -- Accreditation -- United States
Librarians -- Certification -- United States
Library schools.
Accreditation
Library Science -- education
Library Schools
Program Evaluation
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Library & Information Science -- General.
Library schools
Librarians -- Certification
Library education -- Evaluation
Library schools -- Accreditation
SUBJECT United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
Subject United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780810877047
081087704X