The Classic Paradigm - Two Types of LIS Programs
Charles R. Hildreth and Michael Koenig 1) INDEPENDENT Stand Alone Library Schools What we traditionally aspired to - independent stand alone schools that educated only at the graduate level, with the dean or director reporting directly to the institution's chief academic officer, just like Medical Schools or Law Schools. 2) SUBORDINATED Programs within an umbrella School or College The substitute standard - education only at the graduate level, with an LIS program as a functionally separate unit (no close ties to "sister" units) within a broad umbrella, such as liberal arts and sciences or social and behavioral sciences, covering not very closely related units, with the chief of the LIS program reporting to the dean of that umbrella School or College. In common - the LIS program involves itself only with LIS.
LIS Education - The New Models
3) The INCORPORATED Programs The LIS program has been incorporated, almost always as a junior partner, into a larger, somewhat subject integrated, unit, and in which it is one of a small number of components. 4) The EXPANDED Programs (The "I" Schools) Programs built from an LIS base bit which have expanded to include other degrees, typically non ALA accredited, both undergraduate and graduate. # 3, the Incorporated, is the new, but perhaps no better, version of # 2, the Subordinate, the substitute standard (easier partnering, but less independence) # 4, the Expanded, is the new improved version of # 1, the Independent In common - the LIS program is a piece of a larger machine. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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