Collecting Senior Student Perceptions around Greek LIS Curricula and the New Academic Librarianship Paradigms

Sant-Geronikolou, Stavroula Collecting Senior Student Perceptions around Greek LIS Curricula and the New Academic Librarianship Paradigms., 2018 . In 10th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML2018), Chania, Crete, Greece, 22-25 May 2018. (Unpublished) [Presentation]

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In an era of great systemic changes, the more Greek academic libraries feel the pressure to maintain their relevance within the changing informational scenario, the more they become aware of the need to recruit and help develop a workforce capable of shaping student metacognitive skills and aligning with institutional goals by creating responsive and convenient services. As librarian expertise alone is not a sufficient demonstration of library value anymore, addressing the polymorph Learning Resources and Research Centre’s weaknesses requires coming up with new strategies to stay socio-cognitively relevant with changing Higher Education and Knowledge society paradigms among which providing a social platform for innovations, reconciling collegial to managerial librarian culture, articulating outcomes, demonstrating value on investment, and away from impact surrogates helping build more complete user profiles. In view of these new developments and with a mindset toward changing academic library paradigms, analysis of students’ feedback on Greek LIS curricula adequacy to preparing them for their new roles and responsibilities intends informing our research and the community about pre-professionals’ perceptions on the degree to which the New Information Professional profile is effectively supported by current LIS program content and approaches. By offering future librarians a structured opportunity to step back and critically evaluate their study experience through responding to a set of colleague crowdsourced questionnaire items, this study envisions to contribute a fresh perspective to the wider academic librarianship reconceptualization dialogue. Forming part of a doctoral research, this paper reports interim results of an LIS Greek senior student survey on (1) program adequacy to a series of new critical features and components in addition to (2) opportunities provided for actively engaging in programmatic development. Students in their triple capacity of senior undergraduates, patrons and soon-to-be information professionals also share (3) career aspirations, (4) knowledge acquisition preferences, (5) their predictions of academic librarianship future trends and overall reflections on LIS education ecosystem’s response to the changing landscape.

Item type: Presentation
Keywords: senior undergraduate survey, Greek LIS education, academic library trends, questionnaire crowdsourcing, new information professional, higher education paradigms
Subjects: G. Industry, profession and education. > GG. Curricula aspects.
G. Industry, profession and education. > GH. Education.
Depositing user: Stavroula Sant-Geronikolou
Date deposited: 23 Jul 2018 13:56
Last modified: 23 Jul 2018 13:56
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/32915

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