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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
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Life in a Professional School Fall 2010
How/when did it all start? MelvilDewey • 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 • “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
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 …Plus 8 electives
Another view of the program 780 992 Evaluation MS Paper 490 890 Electives 520/521 509/501/513 461 500 582 585 Organization Collection/Retrieval Info Tech Info Behaviors Design Management THE FOUNDATION
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 • wildemuth@unc.edu