Developments in Education for Information: Will "Data" Trigger the Next Wave of Curriculum Changes in LIS Schools?

• Published in: Pakistan journal of library & information science : PJLIS no. 17; p. 2
• Main Author: Tonta, Yasar
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Lahore University of Punjab Lahore 01.01.2016
• Subjects: 19th century; Archives & records; Big Data; Core curriculum; Curricula; Dewey Decimal Classification; Digital curation; Informatics; Information management; Information professionals; Information services; Interdisciplinary aspects; Librarians; Library and information science; Library associations; Library of Congress Classification; Library of Congress Subject Headings; Medical libraries; Museums; Schools of library and information science; Science education; Canada; New York; United States > US; Toronto Ontario Canada
• ISSN: 2409-7462

Needless to say, educated and highly skilled data scientists, data curators, data archivists, information professionals and librarians are needed to tackle these challenges. [...]the schools of library and information science/studies revise their curricula so that their graduates will act as "agents for change" (Lyon & Brenner, 2015) to deal with the multitude of data and information management issues using technology. [...]we look at the proliferation of "data" related courses in the curricula of LIS schools and speculate if this would trigger a new wave of restructuring the curricula of LIS schools. [...]he cautions that some strong LIS schools might abandon the center for the periphery as the intellectual focus of the domain of information science shifts (Cronin, 2002, p. 6). [...]the traditional LIS curricula included more courses up until now on the organization and management of printed and online information rather than data. [...]current information professionals usually lack needed knowledge and skills to properly deal with the organization and management of data contained in the middle and bottom tiers of the pyramid in Fig. 3.