Re: Library Science classes/ALA

[Gabriel Gancarz <gancarz@ALEXIA.LIS.UIUC.EDU>]

Take a look at the LEEP Distance Education Program in the Graduate School
of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois:

http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/leep3/


On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, T. K. Cassidy wrote:

> I have been helping one of our technicians who has worked in the library
> for over 13 years try to find a way to get her degree. There is no way she
> can leave island for any length of time and the classes she can get here
> are only 3 basic LibSci classes with her teaching degree. She doesn't want
> to teach. Most of the folks in the library have been here 10 to 23 years
> treading water without their degrees - and most started very young. If I
> can assist one, maybe the rest will go along.
>
> Yesterday we looking through a ref book which listed schools which have
> correspondence degrees. There were 7 or 8 who listed Library Science in
> their offerings. Of those only 2 had ALA accredited Library Science schools
> on their campus. (U of NC-Chapel Hill and U of TN - Knoxville) My
> assumption is that the correspondence courses my not necessarily be part of
> the ALA accredited school.
>
> Any comments or ideas?
>
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