The MLS Project: An Assessment after Sixty Years

Reference Type Book
Year of Publication
2010
Author
Author: Boyd Keith Swigger
Language
English
Number of Pages
163 pp.
Publisher
Scarecrow Press
City
Lanham, MD
Region
United States
Library Type
Library Schools
Chronological Period
1950-1999
21st century
ISBN
9780810877030
Annotation

Examines the impact of the American Library Association adopting the MLS as the standard credential for librarians in 1951. 

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?
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