The complex process of a total curriculum revision in information and library science: a case study

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Saracevic, Tefko^{; 1}

Affiliations: Matthew A. Baxter School of Information and Library Science, Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.

Note: [1] Co-authors of this paper are the entire faculty, full-time and adjunct, of the Baxter School.

Abstract: The old curriculum was abandoned and an entirely new programme designed and implemented for the Master's degree. Choices were made in large part on the basis of implications inferred from trends related to various information aspects. The curricular structure is based on three areas: Information (resources and organization), Management, and Technology. A heavy emphasis is placed on the core (comprising half of a student's programme of study) and on distributive requirements. One characteristic is a large number of information science topics included in the core and distributed throughout the entire curriculum. In many ways the new curriculum represents both a departure from the long established precepts and philosophy of traditional library education and a search for yet to be established prescriptions for information science education.

DOI: 10.3233/EFI-1983-1402

Journal: Education for Information, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 309-334, 1983