Library Faculty/Staff Scholarship and Research

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    “I appreciate your no-nonsense takes:” Adjunct Instructors and the Future of the MLIS
    (Association of College and Research Libraries, 2019-04) Gammons, Rachel; Drabinski, Emily; Pagowsky, Nicole; Freundlich, Shanti
    A master’s degree in Library and Information Science, or MLIS, represents much more than the credentials needed to become a librarian. It is also the primary point of entry into our profession, in which graduate students learn the cultural values, expectations, norms, and standards of behavior of librarians. As of 2019, the American Library Association (ALA) has accredited 60 MLIS programs across the nation. Over the past decades, many of these programs have shifted their curricula and faculty away from traditional librarianship and toward the intersections of information and technology, more broadly. As a result, MLIS programs often rely on adjunct instructors who are also librarians to supplement the curriculum, and lead courses on topics such as academic librarianship, reference, teaching and pedagogy, and collection development and management. This panel examined what it means to be an adjunct and a librarian, and how these roles may reinforce or resist one another. Rather than exploring the logistics of adjuncting and course design, our panel encouraged participants to consider how our work as adjuncts may impact the pipeline into the profession; what we, as practitioners, bring to our work with graduate students; and what graduate education contributes back to our work as librarians.
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    Research and Scholarship Defined for portal: Libraries and the Academy
    (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004-10) Lowry, Charles B.
    This essay serves to explain in some detail the definition of scholarship that the editorial board of portal: Libraries and the Academy applies when evaluating articles and assessing whether they are worthy of publication in our pages. It should be read in the larger context of the mission and purpose of portal that is defined in our front matter. I want to thank the board for its comments and formal adoption of this statement at our meeting during the 2004 annual conference of the American Library Association. At the same time, any failings of this essay are my own.