Library and Information Science Education and eScience: The Current State of ALA Accredited MLS/MLIS Programs in preparing Librarians and Information Professionals for eScience Needs

The purpose of this study is multifaceted: 1) to describe eScience research in acomprehensive way; 2) to help library and information specialists understand the realm of eScience research and the information needs of the community and demonstrate the importance of LIS professionals within the eScience domain; 3) and to explore the current state of curricular content of ALA accredited MLS/MLIS programs to understand the extent to which they prepare new professionals within eScience librarianship. The literature review focuses heavily on eScientists and other data-driven researchers’ information service needs in addition to demonstrating how and why librarians and information specialists can and should fulfill these service gaps and information needs within eScience research. By looking at the current curriculum of American Library Association (ALA) accredited MLS/MLIS programs, we can identify potential gaps in knowledge and where to improve in order to prepare and train new MLS/MLIS graduates to fulfill the needs of eScientists. This investigation is meant to be informative and can be used as a tool for LIS programs to assess their curriculums in comparison to the needs of eScience and other data-driven and networked research. Finally, this investigation will provide awareness and insight into the services needed to support a thriving eScience and data-driven research community to the LIS profession.

Constitution and by-laws of the Saint Louis Mercantile Library Association.

"Adopted January, 1846. Revised April, 1857. Amended March 1, 1859; January 13, 1863; February 6, 1866; January 10, 1871; November 6, 1877, and March 11, 1879."

Economic studies : a series of American economic association papers and discussions.

Includes American Economic Association's Papers and proceedings of the 8th-11th annual meetings, 1895-1898.

National system of highways and landscape designing. Address delivered before the American civic association at Washington, D.C., on December 31, 1915,

Mode of access: Internet.

The care and treatment of music in a library,

Includes index.

Form for library statistics /

Mode of access: Internet.

Practical bibliography : correspondence course for the Library Association, 1919-20.

Caption title.

Twenty-five years of the Washington Library Association.

Mode of access: Internet.

Transactions of the Section on Laryngology, Otology and Rhinology of the American Medical Association at the ... annual session ...

List of members.

Managers and missionaries : library services to children and young adults in the information age /

"Papers presented at the Allerton Park Institute, sponsored by University of Illinois, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, cosponsored by the Youth Divisions of the American Library Association: American Association of School Librarians (AASL), Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), Young Adult Services Division (YASD); held November 14-16, 1986, Chancellor Hotel & Conference Center ... Champaign, Illinois."

Proceedings - American Gas Association.

Title varies slightly.

Nursing personnel in hospitals : 1972 survey of hospitals registered with the American Hospital Association.

"Health manpower references."

Public library service : a guide to evaluation, with minimum standards.

Prelim. ed. has title: Public library service to America.

Economic factors in the railway situation (1926) Report made to American railway association, by Bureau of railway economics, Washington, D.C., March 19, 1926.

Mode of access: Internet.