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2006Librarians, take a bow
1 Comment | Posted by Steve in Professional Development, Teaching & Instruction, Technology
Ahhhh, changing jobs. At least I have a bit of down time and am able to do a little catch-up reading…
I ran across a this post by Jeffrey Zeldman in which he laments:
The bad news is that college and university design curricula are still mostly about everything but information architecture, usability, application design, user-focused design, accessibility, and web standards.
It is a point of pride that I can say that my library school cannot be described by this statement. All of the people who participate in this blog took the class Information Architecture for our introduction to producing web content. Librarians, take a bow.
1 Comment for Librarians, take a bow
Author comment by Dave | February 2, 2006 at 3:07 pm
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An interesting aside about our alma mater, and perhaps about library schools in general.
Our school announces the hire of three new faculty members for next school year, filling desperate circumstances with badly needed faculty. These new hires have extremely interesting research and teaching interests: print culture, medical information, and digital publishing. I think that these subjects aren’t just badly lacking from this program, but from many programs across the country. The dearth of such faculty was one of my major complaints as a LIS student.
In particular, I think the hiring of these young faculty members poses unique opportunities for the library school to interact with other campus departments and resources – hospitals and the medical school, humanities and cluster programs. It is the relationship of libraries (and LIS programs) to a greater culture that needs clarification in LIS schools, where work and thinking tends to be insular, or centripetal.