The School of Information Sciences invites applications from students interested in the following areas:
Archives and Information Science
Recruiting doctoral students interested in pursuing academic careers in the Archives area, with a focus on digital preservation or curation and archival ethics, accountability, and appraisal issues.
Information Behavior
Recruiting doctoral students who seek to understand how people plot a course through complex information ecologies including digital environments, and how such ecologies can respond to their ways of thinking, feeling, and valuing. A special emphasis is placed on behaviors of children and youth.
Health Information Behavior and Health Education Interventions
Seeking doctoral students who wish to investigate the information practices and behaviors of health professionals, patients, caregivers, and consumers.
Social information systems
Recruiting students who will investigate issues related to the design and use of social information systems, focusing on the impact of social media on people's information behavior.
Web-based Information Systems
Recruiting doctoral students interested in studying, designing and implementing web-based systems for representing, retrieving, extracting and disseminating relevant information.
School Librarianship
Seeking doctoral students interested in teaching, research and administrative experience in a top-ranked, competency-based School Library Certification Program for school librarians and school library supervisors.
Wow that's worse than becoming a veterinarian. And vets pay a couple hundred thousand in schooling for a job that pays maybe 80k when you get established. At least there's lots of those jobs so you won't be slinging baskets of those tasty unlimited fries.
Librarians, historically, have been repositories of information. A reference librarian didn't just need to know where books on ancient architecture were kept, they needed to know how to begin addressing the question being asked of them in the first place. Google has replaced a lot of the functionality of the role, so librarians no longer need to know the distinction between someone wanting to rebuild an exhaust manifold and someone wanting to learn about the history of gasoline engines, but the expectations of senior librarians is still "we have to hire people with advanced degrees, because how else will they know how to research questions?" I have a fair number of older (mostly retired now) librarians in my family and they all have masters degrees; it was expected for career librarians.
The above bolded is pure unadulterated bullshit. Google will never be able to make the kind of connections to legitimate research that trained Librarians can. Huge amounts of information and knowledge are not listed, quoted or. referenced online. In fact, the majority of human knowledge isn't even mentioned in passing online. The ability of the human mind to direct inquiry, integrate seemingly unrelated facts and, broaden the scope of research will NEVER be bettered by Google or any other computer based system. We've had this discussion before, you were woefully ignorant then and apparently haven't learned better since. It must be comforting to have your world view defined and, all possible questions answered by Google and wiki. If idiocracy comes to pass, you have only yourself to blame.
Let's see, google or this?
Hey, if you're happy being led through life by commercial based algorithms, you go right ahead and be a good little consumer.
seems like a better choice than someone who spent 6 years working at a bagel shop and got her masters in library research.
Huge amounts of information and knowledge are not listed, quoted or. referenced online.
We can't all be cube monkeys...well, we could but, what would all you guys do?
Such as?
Librarians don't just find things, suggest and guide research, they teach you how to think.
Now that's a life long dream.
You must've had significantly different librarians than I did growing up.
Poetry, history, letters to name a few. Something that may hit a little closer to home, the Federal depository libraries aren't online, most of the Library of Congress, museum collections and the list goes on. Librarians don't just find things, suggest and guide research, they teach you how to think. Google and wiki are incapable of that.
I was fortunate to have lived close to some of the greatest libraries in North America. I was self educated through high school by librarians who did their best to expose me to the amazing panorama of great works and collections of the country. They taught me how to think, something that almost every regular school teacher managed to miss the mark on.
All of that is available online. Most of us don't have the luxury of worldwide excursions to look in a one of a kind book(that we probably won't be allowed to see anyway). If you can't get to it, it doesn't exist in practicality.
One works for a Government Library archiving documents
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From what they tell me, it's pretty interesting work and I'm sure more rewarding than half of what people do here in real life.
Let's see, google or this?