A Good Match: Library Career Opportunities for Graduates of Liberal Arts Colleges by Rebecca A. Watson-Boone


A Good Match: Library Career Opportunities for Graduates of Liberal Arts Colleges
Title : A Good Match: Library Career Opportunities for Graduates of Liberal Arts Colleges
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ISBN : 0838909418
ISBN-10 : 9780838909416
Language : English
Format Type : Paperback
Number of Pages : 399
Publication : First published September 5, 2000

Library personnel managers, SLIS recruiters, college and university guidance counselors, along with those considering LIS as a career, gain behind-the-scenes perspectives on the lives of real liberal arts-educated librarians who have chosen this service-oriented profession.In this seminal research, Watson-Boone, independent researcher and former academic librarian, investigates the relationship in the College Alumni Librarians Study (CALS surveys 431 librarians who graduated from eight liberal arts colleges (Carleton, Denison, Earlham, Grinnell, Kalamazoo, Lawrence, Macalester, and Swarthmore) from 1962-2000. Following up related studies and connecting to broader library career issues, this study complements prior quantitative studies with a qualitative approach covering 39 years.