NPR’s Tavis Smiley talks with ALA president Carol Brey Casiano and Akilah Nasokhere about the impending closing of Clark-Atlanta University’s library school one of only two library schools at historically black universities.
Category: skool
what is the future of library education in Georgia?
So, since Clark Atlanta is phasing out its library school, what does the future of Library education in Georgia look like? You might recognize Dr. Ismail Abdullahi as being an ALA Councilor. [thanks tim]
paper topics for thoughtful MLISers
Library Juice offers a list of paper topics to get library school students and faculty really thinking about library issues. It had been posted before, but now will be updated from time to time.
“What does “agribusiness versus farming” offer as an analogy to commodified versus community-based information and communication?”
when I teach library school, I want to teach classes like this
Librarian Spotting: Christine Wallace does the work and makes a nice looking website about the image thing. [stuff]
not quite solitary but not so far from it either
“Phantom teachers” unable to be fired because they’re tenured, silently haunt New York’s libraries. While I can’t quite see working in a library as being in exile, it is a far cry from being a schoolteacher. [thakns brandon]