The iSchool Equation

The latest essay in the Project Information Literacy Provocation series (number three) was published on 9 June 2021, by Kirsten Hostetler, entitled The iSchool Equation. The strapline is "Librarians are increasingly being looked to as one solution to the spread of misinformation, but are iSchools producing graduates who possess the teaching skills to tackle this growing problem?"

The essay is here https://projectinfolit.org/pubs/provocation-series/essays/the-ischool-equation.html and there are some suggested discussion questions here https://projectinfolit.org/pubs/provocation-series/essays/discussion-questions/ischool-equation-dq.html
Spoiler alert - the author concludes that library students are not being adequately prepared for teaching, and makes some good points. However, she does focus entirely on the situation in the USA, something that was not obvious from the title (I'm in an iSchool! and I'm not in the USA! - in fact there are more iSchools outside North America than within it - see https://ischools.org/Directory). 

I will add a link to Kirsten Hostetler's PhD dissertation, as that is also interesting: Hostetler, K. (2020). Designing for the One-Shot: Building Consensus on Design Processes for Academic Librarians. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/stemps_etds/112/
Photo by Sheila Webber: rose, June 2021