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Colorado Benefits from IMLS Grant

Published by Sharon on July 14, 2009 in General. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , .

The Institute for Museums and Library Services recently released its list of June 2009 grant recipients (http://www.imls.gov/news/2009/061709b_list.shtm).  One of these awards is a nearly $1M grant to Denver Public Library (principal investigator is DPL’s Kristen Svendsen); grant partners include REFORMA-Colorado, the Colorado Association of Libraries, and the University of Denver.  The purpose of the grant is to increase the number of librarians with the skills and knowledge to serve linguistically and culturally diverse communities.  The money will be used to pay full-tuition and scholarships for 18 students to obtain their master’s degrees at the University of Denver’s library school.  (This is the 3rd such grant received by DPL; it is known locally as “Leaders III”.)

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Introduction and News from DU’s MLIS Program

Published by CLiC on March 6, 2007 in General and Instruction. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

I’m Robin, the new administrative assistant at CLiC and a University of Denver MLIS student. I’m still learning the ropes at CLiC, and there’s a lot to learn!

For my first post, I thought I’d share some exciting news about DU’s MLIS program. The program has just undergone an extensive curriculum revision, which was approved last month. It isn’t just the classes that have changed—the degree concentrations have also been overhauled.

There used to be four concentrations:

  • Library and Information Resources and Technologies (LIRT)
  • Archives and Records Management (ARM)
  • School Library Media (SLM)
  • Knowledge Management (KM)

There are now five concentrations:

  • Information Science & Technology (IST)
  • Knowledge Management (KM)
  • Reference and User Services (RUS)
  • Resource Description and Access (RDA)
  • Archives and Records Management (ARM)

The new concentrations haven’t been posted to the DU LIS site as of this post, but the new course rotation is up for 2007-2009. In the new plan, classes that were formerly lumped into LIRT have been split among RUS, RDA, and IST. New classes have been added to all the concentrations, and the IST track is almost entirely new classes. It’s good to see cataloging get the recognition it deserves with its own track (RDA). KM and ARM were the least affected, but new courses were added to each of those concentrations to update and focus the subject matter.

The absence of an SLM concentration seemed strange to me at first, but I realized that most of the SLM classes had been absorbed into RUS. For those people looking to get Teacher Librarian certification, DU is starting a School Library Cohort program in Summer 2008, which looks like it will be a great experience for people with teacher certification looking to become teacher librarians.

Overall, I’m impressed with the new course plan. It brings a lot of courses up-to-date and provides more instruction on new technologies that are essential for anyone entering the library field. I’m eagerly awaiting more detailed course descriptions so I can see exactly what the new classes have to offer.