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