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Harvey, Ross – Australian Library Journal, 2011
The Editor of "ALJ" has invited me to comment on my 2001 article "Losing the quality battle in Australian education for librarianship" (Harvey 2001). The article was prompted by a period I spent as a visiting professor in the Department of Information Studies at UCLA (the University of California Los Angeles) and was written while I was there.…
Descriptors: Library Education, Foreign Countries, Information Science Education, Educational Quality
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Harvey, Ross – Australian Library Journal, 2011
The author asserts that something is wrong with university-based education for librarianship in Australia. Librarianship does not have a clear disciplinary identity in universities. The lack of differentiation between the roles of technicians and professionals clouds the issue. For these and other reasons, education for librarianship in Australia…
Descriptors: Library Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Quality Assurance