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Syllabus (Fall 2009)

Sample Papers

Information Needs Survey Paper

• Sample 1 (pdf)
• Sample 2 (doc)
• Sample 3 (doc)
• Sample 4 (doc)
• Sample 5 (doc)

LIS Career Study & Personal Objectives

• Finding Employment in Academic Medical Libraries (doc)
• LIS Career Opportunities in Chicago, IL (doc)
• LIS Career Study and Personal Objectives (pdf)
• Academic Librarianship in Hawai'i: Got Tech and Teaching Skills? (pdf)
• Preservation, Conservation, and the Performing Arts (doc)
• Career Study and Personal Objectives (doc)

Historical or Biographical Study

• Historical Study of Three Organizations: IFLA, IASL, and UNESCO (doc)
• Andrew Carnegie: Patron Saint of US Libraries (doc)
• Biographical Sketch Charles A. Cutter (pdf)
• Jorge Luis Borges:  The Blind Librarian with Extraordinary Vision (pdf)
• The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts (doc)
• The Medical Library Association: Defining, Credentialing, and Evolving the Information Specialist (doc)

LIS Philosophical Position Paper

• To Fund or Not to Fund Certified School Librarians? (doc)
• Information Literacy and the Public Library: Impossible Dream or Possible Future? (doc)
• Internet Filtering in Public Libraries (doc)
• Instructor-Librarians, Mentor-Librarians, & the Beauty of Being Extracurricular (pdf)
• Cuba’s “Independent” Libraries (pdf)
• Information Literacy Assessment: A Critical Component to the School Library Media Program (pdf)

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