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Back to School: a Student Insight into LIS Qualifications, the LIS Sector and What it can Offer to New Professionals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 March 2016

Josephine Bailey
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Abstract

Josephine Bailey, the inaugural recipient of BIALL's Professional Studies Bursary, provides a student's perspective on current LIS qualifications, what they can offer to individuals hoping to enter the profession and the challenges facing new professionals today. Her observations and comments are based on her experiences of the MA course in Librarianship and Information Services Management which is offered by the University of Sheffield and is currently ranked as the top university for Librarianship and Information Management.

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library schoolscoursesdistance learningprofessional development
Type
Current Issues
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , March 2016 , pp. 49 - 53
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s) 2016. Published by British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 

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Footnotes

1 Dahlgreen, W. (2015). YouGov / Bookish Britain: literary jobs are the most desirable. [online] YouGov: What the world thinks. Available at: https://yougov.co.uk/news/2015/02/15/bookish-britain-academic-jobs-are-most-desired/.

2 Sheffield, U. (2015). MA Library and Information Services Management (distance learning) - Information studies – Social science – Courses available – Taught courses – Prospective postgraduates – The University of Sheffield. [online] Sheffield.ac.uk. Available at: http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/postgraduate/taught/courses/sscience/is/library-information-services-management-ma.

3 Thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk, (2015). Librarianship & Information Management – Top UK University Subject Tables and Rankings 2015. [online] Available at: http://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/league-tables/rankings?s=Librarianship+%26+Information+Management&y=2015.

4 http://www.cilip.org.uk/cilip/cilip-accredited-qualifications.

5 Wiggins, S. and Cannon, M. (2013). From Academia to the Office: New Professionals in the Workplace. Legal Information Management, 13(04), pp.224–230.

6 Sheffield, U. (2015). MA Library and Information Services Management (distance learning) – Information studies – Social science – Courses available – Taught courses – Prospective postgraduates – The University of Sheffield. [online] Sheffield.ac.uk. Available at: http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/postgraduate/taught/courses/sscience/is/library-information-services-management-ma

7 Ibid.

8 Keer, G. and Carlos, A. (2015). The Stereotype Stereotype | American Libraries Magazine. [online] American Libraries Magazine. Available at: http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2015/10/30/the-stereotype-stereotype/.

9 Danner, R., & Winterton, J. (2011). The IALL international handbook of legal information management. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Pub.

10 Ibid.

11 Ibid.

12 Ibid.