| Autor: |
Makiko Miwa1, Ueda, Shuichi2, Nemoto, Akira3, Oda, Mitsuhiro4, Nagata, Haruki5, Horikawa, Teruyo6 |
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IFLA Conference Proceedings. 2006, p1-21. 21p. |
| Abstrakt: |
The LIPER (Library and Information Professionals and Education Renewal), a three-year research project to study library and information science (LIS) education systems and curricula in Japan and overseas for a possible reform of the Japanese LIS education system, was completed in March 2006. The major findings were: (1) the structure of Japanese LIS education has remained unchanged for 50 years, and the gap between it and overseas LIS education has been ever increasing; (2) the curricula and contents of LIS education are not well standardized nor integrated into higher education programs and very few people who obtain a librarian's certificate get employed in library markets; (3) new areas of education including IT skills and user behavior are sought; and (4) many people seek to obtain LIS education for certification as librarians even though employment opportunities for full-time librarians are quite limited. These findings lead the LIPER project to make the following proposals: (1) establish LIS examination for students so that they are able to self-evaluate what they have learned through LIS education and obtain better employment opportunities; (2) introduce a new standard curriculum for information professional education to emphasize core areas of information organization, information resources and services, information systems and retrieval, management, IT, and a better understanding of user behavior. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Databáze: |
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts |
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