Tuesday, February 10, 2009

dissed

disenfranchised [dis-en-fran-chihyzd] - MLIS students and alumni of the Rutgers School of Communication, Information and Library Studies who discovered--in a brief post to a listserv--that their new dean and faculty had approved a proposal to drop "Library" from the school name, without prior notice of the vote (or even that a name change was under consideration), and without sufficient (any) opportunity for input.

disillusioned [dis'i-loo-zhənd] - (1) This student, who has heard the importance of advocacy for libraries, librarians and librarianship emphasized in every week of every semester of graduate study in a school that suddenly devalues library science to the point that it is willing to spend untold dollars--in this economy--to rebrand itself to eliminate the term "library" from its name.
(2) This student, who has heard nothing public (or otherwise) on this issue from the same professors who have been drilling the need for library advocacy into her head for two years.

disappointed [dis-uh-poin-tid] - This soon-to-be graduating MLIS candidate, who has been looking forward to graduating from the School of Communication, Information and Library Studies, but may now graduate from the School of Communication and Information.

See also: Library Journal news item and NJSLA blog

2 comments:

Renee said...

oh, and i forgot to add...

discouraged

Lisa Russell said...

Does that mean librarysteve needs to become communicationandinformationsteve?????