Welcome to the American Library Association (ALA) Committee on Accreditation (COA) comment collection on the Standards for Accreditation of Master’s Programs in Library and Information Studies.
As part of its charge to develop and formulate standards of education for library and information studies, the COA reviews the Standards on an ongoing basis. The current Standards were adopted by the ALA Council on 15 January 2008. Part of this five-year review process entails gathering comments from stakeholders.
You may comment directly on the current 2008 Standards for Accreditation by following the link on page one. Comments can be made in the Leave a Comment section at the bottom of the page.
Page 2: Final Report of the Presidential Task Force on Library Education
Page two contains a link to the full text document of the Final Report of the Presidential Task Force on Library Education issued 13 January 2009 to the ALA Executive Board (2008-2009 EBD#12.30) for “discussion and referral to the ALA Committee on Accreditation.” While reading the entire document is strongly recommended, the Task Force recommendations to the 2008 Standards can be found on pages 21-38 of the document. The COA’s response to the Final Report of the Presidential Task Force on Library Education can be found on page four of this blog.
The deadline for commenting on the Final Report of the Presidential Task Force on Library Education was October 1, 2009. For this reason, the comment feature has been turned off on this page.
Page 3: Comments on the Task Force recommendations sent directly to the Office for Accreditation
Page three contains comments that the Office for Accreditation has received, outside of this blog, in response to the Task Force recommendations to the Standards. They are listed in chronological order, with the most recently received comment appearing first.
Page 4: COA response to the Final Report of the Presidential Task Force on Library Education
The COA has issued a response to the Final Report of the Presidential Task Force on Library Education. This response was transmitted to the Executive Board on June 1, 2009, and presented at the Executive Board meeting of July 13, 2009.
The deadline for commenting on the Final Report of the Presidential Task Force on Library Education was October 1, 2009. For this reason, we have also turned off the comment feature on this page.
Instructions on how to comment on the Standards and the Final Report of the Presidential Task Force on Library Education:
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If you have trouble navigating the blog or making comments, please contact Kerri Price in the Office for Accreditation at kprice@ala.org.