Issue 3: The Education Issue

Although we anticipated that questions two and three might be too similar in the responses they produced, the results were far different. MLISers focused responses on management training and leadership, while techs were more interested in budgeting and software...

This question was more divisive than the others. Two issues stood out: online courses and theory. Both techs and MLISers were split on their desire for more/less theory, while most of the opinions about online courses came from techs. The most mentioned response was...

This was a tough question to analyze. Admittedly, we could have chosen better wording to solicit more specific responses. As expected, most see a trend towards further use of technology at work and they think that library education will continue to reflect that.  ...

Question five was intended as a grab bag – to solicit final thoughts after considering the preceding questions. The variety of responses made it impossible to graph; the feedback included everything from comments on the profession to people’s assessment of their own...