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Program Learning Outcomes

Kent State University's School of Information requires all MLIS candidates to provide evidence of the following learning outcomes before graduation. Each of the projects featured in this portfolio addresses at least one of these.

Graduates of this program will be able to:

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  1. Apply the field's foundational theories, principles, values, ethics and skills to everyday practice.

  2. Critique and synthesize research and identify appropriate research methodologies to solve problems in the field.

  3. Analyze and engage in the changing cultural, educational and social roles and responsibilities of librarians/information professionals and the environments they work in within the global society.

  4. Evaluate systems and technologies relevant to a particular information context.

  5. Identify needs and connect individuals and communities with information that engages and empowers them.

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*Kent State University. (2019). Library and information science -M.L.I.S. In 2019-2020 Kent State University catalog. Retrieved from http://catalog.kent.edu/colleges/ci/info/library-information-science-mlis/

This digital portfolio was created in summer, 2019 by Rosemary Halas Parker

for course LIS 60280: Master Portfolio in Library and Information Science, Kent State University 

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