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Looking Ahead: Incorporating Ai In Mlis Competencies, Souvick Ghosh, Denise Mccoy
Looking Ahead: Incorporating Ai In Mlis Competencies, Souvick Ghosh, Denise Mccoy
School of Information Student Research Journal
Libraries have long been essential for democratizing knowledge and providing reliable information, extending their services to meet diverse community needs, including educational programs and internet access (Pawley, 2022; Freudenberger, 2022). Librarians, as custodians of information and culture, possess core competencies in information organization, digital literacy, and research skills. The San José State University (SJSU) School of Information (iSchool) aims to educate professionals who significantly impact global communities through high-quality education, research, and technology innovation. This article examines the Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) program at SJSU iSchool, focusing on the evolution of its 14 core competencies to incorporate …
Srj: Leading The Genre-Defying Lis Profession, Greta Snyder
Srj: Leading The Genre-Defying Lis Profession, Greta Snyder
School of Information Student Research Journal
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Digitization And Digital Preservation: A Review Of The Literature, Stephanie Routhier Perry
Digitization And Digital Preservation: A Review Of The Literature, Stephanie Routhier Perry
School of Information Student Research Journal
Digitization and digital preservation are rapidly becoming the standard forms of preservation for libraries, archives, and other cultural heritage institutions, yet there is still much confusion as to what they mean and how they are meant to be used. Through a review of the recent literature, this paper aims to define both concepts, as well as find some of the common challenges associated with these preservation processes. Different preservation methods, collaboration techniques, and metadata schema are also discussed.
William Stetson Merrill And Bricolage For Information Studies, Anita Coleman
William Stetson Merrill And Bricolage For Information Studies, Anita Coleman
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Purpose – This paper examines William Stetson Merrill, the compiler of A Code for Classifiers and a Newberry Library employee (1889‐1930) in an attempt to glean lessons for modern information studies from an early librarian's career. Design/methodology/approach – Merrill's career at the Newberry Library and three editions of the code are briefly examined using historical, bibliographic, and conceptual methods. Primary and secondary sources in archives and libraries are summarized to provide insight into Merrill's attempts to develop or modify tools to solve the knowledge organization problems he faced. The concept of bricolage, developed by Levi‐Strauss to explain modalities of thinking, …