These include providing feedback to other educational providers on qualities contributing to success on the job and rewarding persons for exceptional performance. Library and Information Science Education 17. Every graduate program in library and information science must lay a broad foundation that stresses theory over application, places librarianship in context with other related disciplines, fosters professional values, and prepares students to design their own learning program throughout the length of their careers. Every curriculum must provide a perspective on library and information science that is sufficiently broad to prepare students for a variety of possible job settings, both for now and in the future. Educators should provide a range of programs and opportunities that meet needs throughout one's professional career, rather than focus solely on the master's degree.
All practitioners experience a lifelong impetus for retooling of skills.
All information professionals are expected to seek continuing education, and some will wish to acquire advanced certificates or doctoral degrees. Library and information science education programs have generally concentrated on new students and have not always recognized or responded to ongoing educational needs. Library educators, like their medical school counterparts who oversee continuing medical education programs, can coordinate a portfolio of courses, seminars, and institutes using a variety of instructors and educational techniques to support this end. Educators need to define the boundaries of their programs and develop effective relationships with other related information disciplines. Increasingly, libraries will employ both librarians and other information professionals with different educational training and formal degrees.