1. FOR A CAREER IN INFORMATION ORGANIZATION EDUCATION Daniel N. Joudrey, Ph.D. Simmons College, Graduate School of Library & Information Science Boston, Massachusetts, USA November 6, 2013 Panel on Organization And Systematization Of Information

2. A CHANGING ENVIRONMENT A time of changes New activities New formats New modes of access New models Entities and relationships are now the focus (E-R models) Functional Requirement for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) is the underlying structure for bibliographic description New standards RDA: Resource Description & Access Bibliographic Framework Initiative (BIBFRAME) New skills are needed!

3. IS LIS EDUCATION CHANGING? Are we preparing students for careers in information organization? Questions: What courses are being offered? What’s actually being taught? How have things changed in the last 7 years? To find out, I studied the Information Organization courses at 58 graduate Library and Information Science (LIS) schools

4. COMPARISON OF SIX STUDIES Joudrey 2012 Joudrey 2005 Joudrey 2000 Spillane 1998 Vellucci 1997 CCQ 1987 # of schools 58 5655565255 # of courses offered 298 267245221156209 Average # of courses offered 5.1 4.84.53.933.8 # of courses taught 238 225≈206 - 237 † Unk. Average # of courses taught per school 4.1 4 ≈3.8 - 4.3 † Unk. † These numbers are estimates because data on courses actually taught were not collected in the earliest studies.

5. 14 TYPES OF IO COURSES Cataloging Advanced Cataloging Descriptive Cataloging Non-book Cataloging Subject Cataloging School Libraries Cataloging Classification Organization of Information Metadata Indexing & Abstracting Thesaurus Construction Technical Services Special Topics Other

6. KEY FINDINGS The total number of IO courses has increased since 2005 5.1 courses offered/school 4.1 courses taught/school 80% of courses offered were taught in 2013 Required vs. Electives courses Courses offered: 20% were required 80% were elective Courses taught: 25% were required 75% were elective

7. KEY FINDINGS (II) 60% of schools offer 3-4 IO courses 88% of schools require one course 7% have NO requirement 5% have 2 requirements Requirements 67% Organization of Information 17% Cataloging 7% None 6% Choice of courses (Cat/Org/Tech Svcs/combination) 3% Org and Cat

8. KEY FINDINGS (III) Course TypeJoudrey 2012 Joudrey 2005 Change Cat5044 +6 Org4541 +4 Index4247 -5 Subject16 Tech Svcs1518 -3 Desc1011 Class10 Techno Cat01 Adv Cat/Special4041 Adv Cat 2528 -3 Special Topics 1513 +2 Other Formats 5328 +25 Metadata 4222 +20 Non-book 116 +5 Miscellaneous1710 +7 Thesaurus Const. 108 +2 School Libraries 32 +1 Other 40 +4 TOTALS298267 +31 # of schools5856 +2 Average # of IO courses offered5.14.8 +0.3

9. THE RISE OF THE METADATA COURSE Joudrey 2012 (n=58) Joudrey 2005 (n=56) Joudrey 2000 (n=55) Spillane (n=56) Vellucci (n=52) Schools offering a Metadata course 36 (62%)21 (38%)6 (11%)7 (13%)5 (10%) Joudrey 2012 (n=298) Joudrey 2005 (n=267) Joudrey 2000 (n=237) Spillane (n=221) Vellucci (n=156) # and % of all IO courses offered 42 (14%)22 (8%)7 (3%) 5 (3%) And, this is a good thing!