[Hum-DIS] FW: [WAIN] Focus groups - call for LIS research participation

[Kerry Smith]

From: wain-bounces at lists.curtin.edu.au
[mailto:wain-bounces at lists.curtin.edu.au] On Behalf Of Barbara COMBES
Sent: Wednesday, 8 September 2010 11:33 AM
To: WAIN (wain at lists.curtin.edu.au)
Cc: ALIAWest (aliawest at lists.alia.org.au)
Subject: [WAIN] Focus groups - call for LIS research participation

 

Hi Everyone - could I please ask you to set aside some time to
participate in this important research. We don't have the empirical data
available concerning Australian conditions and the LIS workforce to be
able to make concrete submissions to Govt and this is an attempt to
rectify this lack of data. My Thanks.

:)

BC

 

Calling all current students and recent graduates of library and
information science (LIS) courses at Australian institutions

 

Sincere thanks to those of you who have already taken part in our
national survey*. To date, the survey has had almost 300 responses. To
expand on these results we are now asking for your participation in a
focus group.

 

The focus groups will be conducted:

*       by telephone,

*       at a time that suits you, and

*       for the cost of a local call.

 

In these sessions, you and a small group of your peers will be asked to
take part in a free-flowing discussion about:

*       Your reasons/motivations for entering the LIS profession.

*       Your developing understanding and expectations of the field and
your course.

*       Ways to develop and improve LIS education in Australia.

 

Your privacy will be respected by not identifying you in any reporting
of the results.  The sessions will run for 1 hour, but we ask that you
commit 1.5 hours to allow time for administration and potential delays.
For further information please see the detailed participant information
sheet at: http://alturl.com/o95jb

 

If you are able to participate please contact our project officer, James
Whittle, on james.whittle at qut.edu.au / (07) 3138 1134 / 0448962943

 

*If you have not yet participated in the survey, please access either:

*       The current student's survey: http://alturl.com/dsq9
<http://alturl.com/dsq9> , or

*       The recent graduate's survey: http://alturl.com/h7hf
<http://alturl.com/h7hf> ,

before 14th September.

 

Again, many thanks in advance for your participation in this study.

 

 

About 'Reconceptualising and re-positioning Australian library and
information science education for the twenty-first century':

 

The Australian Teaching and Learning Council has initiated a national
study into education for the Information Professions (Examples of
information professions include librarians and library technicians,
teacher librarians, records managers and archivists, and information and
knowledge managers). The outcomes from the project will have a
significant bearing on education for the information professions in
Australia and on the quality of Australia's future information
professionals. Details of the study can be found at: 
www.liseducation.org.au

 

:)

BC

 

 

President WA Operations, WASLA, http://www.wasla.asn.au/

Vice President, Advocacy & Promotion, IASL: www.iasl-online.org

The GiggleIT Project: www.iasl-online.org/sla/giggleIT/index.htm

InfoScience Seminars: 
http://www.scss.ecu.edu.au/seminars/infosci/index.php 

Australian School Library Research Project: 
www.chs.ecu.edu.au/portals/ASLRP/

Barbara Combes, Lecturer

School of Computer and Security Science Edith Cowan University, Perth
Western Australia

Ph: (08) 9370 6072

Email: b.combes at ecu.edu.au

 

"Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that
of an ignorant nation." Walter Cronkite

 

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