A Question of Degrees for Academic Librarians
College Student Journal › Vol. 42 Nbr. 3, September 2008
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A Question of Degrees for Academic Librarians
According to Mayer and Terrill, (2005, p.59) the literature related to academic librarians and advanced subject degrees is limited and was mainly performed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. This should be troubling to the field of academic librar- ianship, and to the institutions served by academic librarians, as much has changed in the field since then as a result of advances in technology, the increased reliance on the World Wide Web as an information resource, and the distance learning initiatives pursued by an increas- ing number of universities each year. These changes place a premium on the time librarians have to commit to their daily duties and to their profession. Currently at some, not all, universities there is a par- adigm that an advanced degree in a subject specialty other than librarianship imbues the academic librarian who holds it with greater scholarly credibility than one who does not....
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