You've got to start somewhere...No degree guarantees success and preparation for life. It's a matter of lifelong learning...No one has a crystal ball to guarantee current education will guarantee future application and relevance. Library degrees are not apprenticeships or trade schools, after all...It's to help set, promote, advocate, nurture mindset, mission, sense of purpose....
Also, if everyone working in libraries has different training and no common foundation (courses) about the missions, aims, history, techniques, tools of this profession, what are the common threads for library staff together at disparate institutions to begin conversations? Not an easy task since everything is evolving--libraries and the field...
You've got to start somewhere...No degree guarantees success and preparation for life. It's a matter of lifelong learning...No one has a crystal ball to guarantee current education will guarantee future application and relevance. Library degrees are not apprenticeships or trade schools, after all...It's to help set, promote, advocate, nurture mindset, mission, sense of purpose....
Also, if everyone working in libraries has different training and no common foundation (courses) about the missions, aims, history, techniques, tools of this profession, what are the common threads for library staff together at disparate institutions to begin conversations? Not an easy task since everything is evolving--libraries and the field...