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Life in a Professional School. Fall 2010. How/when did it all start?. Melvil Dewey. 1876 ALA Library Journal Dewey Decimal Classification System 1883 Columbia and later Albany in 1888. How/when did it start in NC?. 1904: Wilson began offering summer courses in librarianship - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Life in a Professional SchoolFall 2010
How/when did it all start?
• 1876– ALA– Library Journal– Dewey Decimal
Classification System• 1883
– Columbia and later Albany in 1888
Melvil Dewey
How/when did it start in NC?• 1904: Wilson began offering summer courses in
librarianship– “A library school is needed, where librarians, like lawyers and doctors and teachers, may secure expert professional training… to tap the vast reservoir of human knowledge.”
• 1931: School of Library Science opened, with the first class graduating in 1932
• 1950: MSLS began to be offered• 1980: First PhD graduate
Louis Round Wilson
And what about information science?
Bush, Vannevar. “As We May Think." Atlantic Monthly, 176(1):101-108, 1945
Information explosion during and after WWII
Solution: The MEMEX
The MEMEX
• Coping with the growing amount of data
• Personal information repository
• Random access, extensibility, ability to add new data
A walk through history
• ASIS&T founded in 1937 as the American Documentation Institute
• 1950s & 60s – Transition to information science
• 1980s – Library schools become ILS schools
• 1992 – The Web is born
Today and tomorrow…• Digital libraries• User-centered
design• Human-computer
interaction• Information
architecture • Social media
• Information retrieval• Knowledge
management • Personal
information management
• Digital curation
What about the day after tomorrow???
For the future, we need ILS professionals• But what do we mean by:
– A professional?– An ILS professional?
The professional…
• Is an expert problem solver
The professional…
• Occupies a position of TRUST
The professional…
• Builds community
The professional…
• Is a change agent
ILS professions include…
• Librarians of all types
ILS professions include…
• Archivists & Records Managers
ILS professions include…
• Information/Knowledge Managers
ILS professionals include…
• Systems Analysts
ILS professionals include…
• Web designers• Database designers
Becoming a professional involves…
• Formal education
Information(content, artifacts)
People(authors,
info seekers,readers)
Tools/technologies
Managementissues
Educationin ILS
Policyissues
Contexts
Human-Information Interaction
Information organization,
representation
Human-Computer Interaction
Becoming a professional involves…
• Commitment to lifelong learning
Becoming a professional involves…
• Active participation in professional associations
Student organizations at SILS• ILSSA – ILS Student Association• IS Undergraduates Empowered
(ISSUE)• Doctoral Student Association
(DSA)• Art & Museum Professionals
(AMLISS)• Information Science &
Technology (ASIS&T)• Librarians (ALA)• Archivists (SCOSAA)• Special Librarians (SLA)
Your formal education at SILS
Function/Requirement MSIS MSLSOrganization 520, Org of Information 521, Org of Materials I
Collection/Retrieval 509, Info Retrieval 501, Info Res & Serv513, Resource Select & Eval
Information Behaviors 500, Human Info Interactions 500, Human Info Interactions
Design/Evaluation 582, Systems Analysis780, Research Methods
780, Research Methods
Management 585, Mgmt for Info Professionals
585, Mgmt for Info Professionals
Master’s Paper 992, Master’s Paper 992, Master’s Paper
Information Technology 461, Info Tools 461, Info Tools
…Plus 8 electives
Another view of the program
Organization Collection/Retrieval Info Behaviors Design ManagementInfo Tech
520/521 509/501/513 500 582 585461
Electives
780
Evaluation
992
MS Paper
THE FOUNDATION
890490
Some core values at SILS
• Collegiality, collaboration, and teamwork• Academic integrity• Social responsibility
Collegiality, collaboration, teamwork
• Team assignments in classes• Use of resources in the School:
library, lab• Sharing what you already know
Academic integrity
• UNC Honor Code/system, http://honor.unc.edu/ • Using others’ work: plagiarism
– Online tutorial available: http://www.lib.unc.edu/instruct/plagiarism/
• Re-using your own work: self-plagiarism, “double-dipping”
Social responsibility
• Service learning at UNC: http://www.unc.edu/apples/
• Volunteer efforts– Project Homestart– Habitat for Humanity
• Devoting your professional efforts to work that is “worthwhile”
Project Homestart, Chapel Hill, NC
Habitat for Humanity,Orange County, NC
If you don’t know, ASK!
• One another– Individually or via listserv
• Your instructors• Your advisor• The office staff
– Lara Bailey– Wake Harper
• Me– 210 Manning Hall– [email protected]