"You never told us what to do when the roof leaks," complained the ex-student. The comment stuck in the professor's psyche. Has library and information science education neglected to cover some essentials? Apparently so, for 200 post-1990 graduates from 30 ALA-accredited programs willingly responded to this recent request: Please give an example of a situation or event for which your LIS education did not prepare you. Their answers may startle LIS educators into plugging some serious leaks in theirsyllabi.
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