Five Ph.D. Candidates Ponder Library Science’s Future

As both a scholar and someone who promotes librarianship, I wondered how the Doctor of Philosophy in Library and Information Science at Indiana University reflects and shapes the discipline. With questions like these swirling in my head, I spent a week on campus meeting with students, faculty members, and program administrators to better understand IU’s philosophy behind this doctoral program.

Discipline Can Help Teach Non-Teaching Staff

 How To Teach By Dave Hughes School leadership teams (both in the classroom and the administrative and support spaces) are filled with different people: administrative staff, classroom teachers, paraprofessionals, guidance counselors, and even principals. Every person in these spaces has a different job, and it's incumbent upon the school leadership team to keep everyone moving in the same direction. If there is a disconnect, a teacher could be burning out, unable to be effective, and disengaged. But even more significantly, there is a ton of work that can't be done by anyone on staff alone. We often talk about the plethora of things that need to be done in a school. From personnel issues to professional development to hiring a gifted-and-talented teacher to discipline the football coach for allegedly having sex with a student, to serving lunch to 100 kids, and much more. But sometimes, the students themselves need the help. Sometimes, teaching a student who has trouble

How Can a Doctor's Degree Help a Career in Librarianship?

 One thing is for sure: finding a career in librarianship will always be more difficult than in other areas. Especially in the beginning, a lot of factors are going to play into whether or not librarianship will work out for you. However, with a degree in libraries, one can have a lot of career options to choose from, assuming one keeps on the path of becoming a librarian. Many of the reasons you may be looking for a career as a librarian, especially if you want to work in the public library system, are the same reasons why a doctor's degree may help your career in a variety of ways. While a doctor's degree is certainly not an essential requirement, it can certainly make the working environment more comfortable and easier to work in. Keep reading to find out why. Become More Proficient in Librarianship Although librarians may not become librarians overnight, with the right education, one can get by without getting a doctor's degree, and even find success with no formal training, as

Five Ph.D. Candidates Ponder Library Science’s Future

Professor of Library & Information Science

A University Lecturer in the Department of Communications Studies, Renuka D'Souza. Through her work as a scholar, she is known for writing popular and academic books and articles on various aspects of music, film, theatre, and the internet. She has presented many papers and spoken at many universities, and has been a frequent contributor to publications including "Oxford Companion to the English Language", "The Oxford Encyclopedia of South Asian Literature", and "Mood Atlas of Contemporary English Usage". Among her major works are "Play It Again, Sam: Music and Society in Hindi Cinema" and "Through the Eyes of a Book: The Human Side of the Book". Renuka D’Souza was born in Kolkata, West Bengal on 12 January 1962. She spent her childhood in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, and Tamil Nadu. She has worked for many years in several libraries in Mumbai, where she established the Centre for Hindi Literature and Comparative Literature at the National Academy of Indian Languages (NAIL

The Challenges of a Doctoral Degree

 Program at the Graduate Level: The structure of a doctorate program varies greatly among the world's leading research universities. A Ph.D. program requires students to produce innovative research proposals and then spend several years writing them, conducting and revising their research, and defending their work in scientific conferences. A dissertation, a collection of research papers written by doctoral students, is a defining component of a Ph.D. degree and provides a final statement of their contribution to their field. Many doctoral programs in the United States use the standards established by the National Committee on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (NCIDD), an international committee made up of leading experts in the field of intellectual disability. The NCIDD specifications for a doctoral dissertation include the following requirements: Proposals: Finalize and research a novel idea or significant problem in the field. Work: Complete all required forms and

The Process of Completing the Degree

The Process of Completing the Ph.D. : The Process Of Completing the Degree Ph.D. To finish the academic degree of a doctor of philosophy Ph.D. in either philosophy, psychology, political science, etc. one must choose one or more fields of knowledge or content for one's dissertation or capstone project. A dissertation or capstone project is a specialized dissertation/project, which is the work performed at the end of one's Ph.D. degree to give the student what he or she needs to complete the degree. In other words, a student must have all the information needed to complete his or her Ph.D. to write and successfully defend his or her dissertation. The final, published work in a Ph.D. thesis is known as the dissertation. In the case of a Ph.D. in psychology, the dissertation is known as the thesis (or the thesis statement). Depending on the field of psychology, a thesis could be over 300 pages long, but the typical thesis statement is 80 or fewer pages long. Commonly, the term dissertation can be used to