Library Education: Issues for the Eighties

Abstract

After a brief look backward and an examination of two previous studies dealing with the future of library education, this article focuses on what the author perceives to be the most salient trends of the 1980s: the dominance of electronic technology and its various applications in information science; the stabilization of enrollments in schools of library and information science and the virtual cessation of accreditation of new schools; the continuing shift in library education programs from private to public universities; and the lack of acceptance of two-year master's programs in the United States. Other trends include a renewed emphasis on the practicum component in library education, new incentives for continuing education, and new ways of coordinating specializations among library schools.

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