Documentation, Informaiton & Knowledge ›› 2023, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (6): 52-60.doi: 10.13366/j.dik.2023.06.052

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Survey Report on MLIS Program Development in China(2022)

DUAN Yufeng, SHANG Duxin   

  1. Department of Information Management, Department of Economics and Management, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200062
  • Online:2023-11-10 Published:2023-12-10
  • Contact: Correspondence should be addressed to DUAN Yufeng, Email:yfduan@infor.ecnu.edu.cn, ORCID:0000-0002-4319-2837

Abstract: [Purpose/Significance] In 2022, the Education Steering Committee Secretariat of MLIS has conducted the tenth survey of national MLIS education development status, which aims to reveal the current status and development trend of MLIS education in China. [Design/Methodology] This study investigated MLIS education institutions to collect the data about faculty, enrolment, cultivation and employment through questionnaires, and demonstrated the status of development of MLIS education by comparing with historical data. [Findings/Conclusion] The survey report of 75 MLIS training institutions indicates a stable and rapid development of the MLIS education in China, which is demonstrated by the steady growing number of faculty, small drop in enrolment numbers, the optimistic employment situation of graduates, and the increasing standardization of the set of curriculum system, the construction of educational resource and the management of culturing process of each training unit. [Originality/Value] The reports on the development of MLIS education in China have been consecutively published for ten years. Compared with previous surveys, this survey report additionally extracted the main content of "Basic Requirements for Professional Dissertation of Master of Library and Information Science".

Key words: Master of library and information science, Education of library and information science, Professional degree, Survey report