Listen to an “Inside Higher Ed” interview with Loriene Roy, president of ALA, and read the article and comments entitled similarly to my entry here also from “Inside Higher Ed”.

Loriene Roy in her interview linked to above talks about what library school is, the trend towards “i-schools” (i.e. using the term “information” instead or in addition to “library”), very common “info” questions (e.g. judging sources, Wikipedia, paraprofessionals). Some interesting comments but not a lot of new ideas or concepts. She was also asked what her favourite library is. Not a typical question and she gives an interesting and very broad answer.

The article is very short (merely a news item about Loriene Roy’s new position) but there are a lot of very valuable and thought-provoking comments about the length of the librarian master’s degree, training versus teaching, and continuing education.