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Caption: UI Library School Alumni Newsletter - 34
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Number 34 library School Associati on NEWS LETTER ^ The New Curriculum has announced a new curriculum to be offered for the first time in the autumn semester of 1944. The alumni have already ime received copies of the Announcement which gives in detail the requirements for degrees and descriptions of individual courses. The new curriculum is the result of much thought and effort on the part of the faculty and represents an attempt at an instructional program of professional caliber adjusted to the needs of American libraries. The new curriculum should be considered the culmination of an evolutionary process. No educational program can be successful if it is static, and each year has brought some changes in the course offerings of the Library School. The time has now come, however, when a complete reorganization is necessary. There have been such major revisions of the curriculum in the past and there will undoubtedly be more in the future, for librarianship is a rapidly changing and devel^ In E S Jthe n , *»*" to the 'University o^ III inowcurncuc ^ T preliminaries °f ~ ° T f Z o ^ i was one of revision, Metcalf, Russell and Osborn postulate the following objec tives for the library school: ,,t,rar1>c fnrimariry 1. To make clear the principles according to which hbranes (pnm American) function. libraries in the light of these 2. To impart the techniques and skills used in 3. To p romot professional understanding - ^ T ^ d e a r l y e s s e n t i a l Thefirstand third of these are * $ £ ? * £ S o t achieves the for any professional camctdum.JBJ-J ^ p e r f o r m efficiently the secon7of7hese objectives, its alumni can P W k T HE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LIBRARY SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF Volume 41 Published weekly office at Urbans, Ar) ntstrfttion {* POSUge f.rovi<l.-<I ILLINOIS BULLETIN 1944 Number 35
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