New Career Paths
(Beyond = Instead, or Before)
New modes of training are also called for, because people enter college and research libraries from a variety of backgrounds and often without formal LIS training:
Subject-area specialists
 Systems experts
 Development staff
 Administration
These people will be more effective in their jobs if they get some LIS training, but they already have advanced degrees, they already have jobs: they’re not likely to get LIS training in the form of a residential MLS--and maybe not in the form of an MLS at all.