- Students in graduate and undergraduate programs
in information and library science nearly all strive to
achive technical skills. These skills are useful in a
variety of organizational settings (jobs), and are also
helpful for completing school work.
- Many students learn to program as part of their
skills acquisition:
- Recent high school grads may have had programming
courses as a standard part of their curriculum.
- At the undergraduate level, students may take one
or more programming courses as part of their general
education requirements.
- At the graduate level, students may seek out one
or two programming courses, or pursue specialized
work such as database programming, Web programming
or retrieval system programming.
- While there are relatively few opportunities for
LIS graduate students to pursue programming as a vocation,
there are many opportunities for programming to be used
for projects and coursework.
- Students who have programming expertise may be in
demand for projects and assistantship work.
- In many work settings, employees (our graduates) will
write programs of different sizes. Relatively few will
be employed as programmers, but many will have a direct influence
on how computers are used and respond to their users.
- Broadly, we may think of Web page authoring, database design and
other activities that control how computers behave as programming,
which increases the scope of LIS students who program.
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