So You Want to Work in a Museum? Guiding the Careers of Future Museum Information Professionals

Marty, Paul F.

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Marty, Paul F.

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2005-01

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2005-01-29

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Library and Information Science Education

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information flow
museum infrastructure
educational background
career path

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So You Want to Work in a Museum? Guiding the Careers of Future Museum Information Professionals 2005-01,

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This pdf presentation (20 slides) was presented in Session 4.4 â Special Information Agencies and Issues (Juried Papers), at the 2005 ALISE Conference. It highlights the need for information professionals in museums and summarizes the results of a survey that investigated the composition of museum professionals in terms their training, experience, and expectations. It identifies the problems and potentials of information technologies for museums, and the presentation underlines strategies for developing the LIS curriculum to train students with necessary skills.