EU-US DL Curriculum: Needs Assessment

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Analysis of DL course syllabi

For comparability, should use the same set of programs as in:

Pomerantz, J., Oh, S., Yang, S., Fox, E. A., & Wildemuth, B. M. (2006). The Core: Digital Library Education in Library and Information Science Programs. D-Lib Magazine, 12(11).

While some LIS programs offer undergraduate majors or minors, syllabi were collected only from
programs and courses at the graduate level. Limiting the scope of the study to graduate programs
enabled the authors to utilize a pre-existing list of graduate programs of acknowledged quality:
the authors utilized the American Library Association's (ALA's) list of Accredited Master's
Programs in Library and Information Studies, which contained 56 programs as of this writing.

Directory of ALA-accredited master's programs in library and information studies

Question: What list should we work from for programs in the EU?


More emphasis on analysis of readings according to topic than in The Core.

Test hypothesis from The Core that:

As DL curricula continue to evolve, particularly if supported by funded development and
dissemination projects (such as the UNC-VT project described in Pomerantz et al., 2006), we may
see increases in the consistency of assigned readings across courses; that is, a core set of
readings may begin to emerge.


Analysis of DL job postings

Currently underway as of Feb 2009, being conducted by Jian Qin.


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