[Publib] How Important is ALA Accreditation?

[Rachel Davis]

Judith Turner <turnermalibmba at yahoo.com> writes:
>More recently the University of Denver has established a new library/info
>sciences program with the School of Education.  I don't know if the new
>program is accredited or not but I am curious about all those jobs
>requiring degrees from accredited programs -- what about the Denver
>graduates of years ago, and the graduates of those other library schools
>that closed back in the 1980's and early 1990's?

It wouldn't speak very well of our profession if someone was denied a job
because the library school where they got their degree closed years later.
 I would hope that professional experience and a record of professional
service would count more than a piece of paper or a school's demise.

Rachel


Rachel Q. Davis
Children's Librarian
Thomas Memorial Library
6 Scott Dyer Road
Cape Elizabeth, ME  04107
207-799-1720


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