In this article, the author states that school librarians can contribute to an atmosphere that supports intellectual freedom by drawing attention to the subtle messages about community values--messages that are communicated by virtue of what is included or excluded from curricular and co-curricular offerings. The author address issues with…

Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop directed the five trustees of her estate to erect a school for Hawaiian children (Bishop 1883). Her wish was to improve the capability and well being of her people through education, and to provide an environment where each would have an opportunity to practice and perpetuate Hawaiian values and traditions. In 2008…

Students and faculty in library schools and librarians in the field are engaged in a reassessment of librarianship and library education. Such special topics as communication and behavioral science, information retrieval, library automation and systems analysis and design are beginning to form the basis for a new core of library science. (5…

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While mission statements for various libraries and information centers necessarily vary, all librarians face "two very pressing charges: make voluminous numbers of electronic resources as visible as possible in a landscape of multiple access points and simultaneously manage all the technology, tasks, and data necessary to facilitate such…

There is a considerable difference of opinion in the bibliographic repertoire to which students are exposed and the numbers and types of specific titles which they are required to recognize. (AB)

It is felt that the present curricula for special library education are somewhat inadequate, particularly in regard to orienting new students to the field of library science and in helping students choose an area of specialization. Curricula revisions are proposed. (13 references) (Author/SJ)

A year spent on curriculum renewal has most frequently resulted in old content being put into more sophisticated packages which are more appealing to the designer than the student. (Author)

Simulation has demonstrated its ability as a teaching tool and deserves further trials in other subjects in the library school curriculum. (AB)

Experimenting, innovating and reforming are required to make the library school curriculum appealing to today's library school student. (Author/AB)

Formulating a curriculum for library education should involve all the library school faculty members in determining objectives, approaches and criteria, selecting and organizing contents, deciding on teaching-learning strategies, preparing instructional materials, and examining assessment methods. (FM)

Teaching inferential statistics in library schools is advocated. Study regarding the use of statistics in the field's periodicals indicates more penetrating analyses could have been accomplished. A description of a research methods course at one school is included. (Author/MBR)

This paper discusses future developments in education for library and information science and the ways in which library schools will have to adapt their programmes. (Contains 1 footnote.) [To mark the 25th Anniversary edition of "Education for Information", editors re-visited articles published in the inaugural issue "to look again at them…

The report "Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records" from the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) has been chosen as the theoretical foundation for teaching cataloging in Denmark. This paper illustrates the way the ideas in the report have been implemented in the teaching of cataloging at the Royal…