[Libs-Or] Your input requested on the future of ALA accreditation

[Pierina Parise]

From: stuchapt-request at lists.ala.org<mailto:stuchapt-request at lists.ala.org> [mailto:stuchapt-request at lists.ala.org] On Behalf Of Don Wood
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2016 9:08 AM
To: stuchapt at lists.ala.org<mailto:stuchapt at lists.ala.org>
Cc: Peter.Hepburn at canyons.edu<mailto:Peter.Hepburn at canyons.edu>
Subject: [STUCHAPT] The Task Force on the Context for Future Accreditation
Good morning!
The Task Force on the Context for Future Accreditation* is attempting to describe the fields and context for future accreditation and make recommendations to the American Library Association Executive Board. Addressed will be knowledge, skills, and core competencies currently in place and needed in the future; values that bind together library and information studies (LIS) fields and core elements in the curriculum; and the changing institutional context for accreditation such as pedagogical innovation, assessment, and resources. Student input through completion of this survey is extremely important to the work of the task force.
To that end, I have been asked to send you a link to their survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SLIMStudent
Please take the survey and also distribute the link to your Chapter members.

Address questions and comments related to this survey to:

Peter Hepburn
Head Librarian, College of the Canyons
Santa Clarita, CA
661.362.3758
Peter.Hepburn at canyons.edu<mailto:Peter.Hepburn at canyons.edu>

Thanks for sharing your time and expertise.

Don

* The Special Task Force on the Context of Future Accreditation is charged to develop a white paper that describes the fields and context for which we will be accrediting in the future and to make such recommendations as may arise in the process of that development to the ALA Executive Board.
The discussion should address:

  *   Accreditation of information programs -- who is doing what, how do or might they relate to LIS programs; disconnect (or perceived disconnect) between skills increasingly needed (e.g., information architecture), the current curricula of LIS programs, and standards/statements of core competencies currently in place;
  *   Values -- e.g. public access, privacy, intellectual freedom -- as common threads binding together LIS and related fields and a core element in curricula; and,
  *   The changing institutional context for accreditation, including factors such as pedagogical innovation, assessment and resources.
The discussion/white paper should result in a conceptual statement as a framework for the development (by the ALA Committee on Accreditation) of future standards.
Timeline:  The Task Force will make an interim report to the ALISE Board of Directors and the ALA Executive Board in January 2016, with a final report to the ALA Executive Board at the 2016 Annual Conference in Orlando.
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