Many thanks to Evelyn Behar for making this available to us. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <ewbehar@aol.com> Date: Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 1:16 PM Subject: Value of an MLIS To: Thomas.Surprenant@qc.cuny.edu, c2perry@nyc.rr.com Cc: marcumjw9@aol.com From the most recent American Libraries Direct - Evelyn Behar *The value of an MLIS*<http://link.ixs1.net/s/lt?id=h10268090&si=d409339626&pc=r2255&ei=51586814&b=y> Over the last two weeks of May, librarians, library staff, and library school students weighed in on the Colorado Library Research Service’s 60-second survey, “The Value of an MLIS Degree to You.” Almost 2,500 people from every state and 15 countries, representing all library types, responded. Around 1,300 respondents left comments, sharing additional thoughts on the value of the MLIS degree today. Just over three-fourths of respondents (76%) agreed or strongly agreed that their degree was worth the investment.... Library Research Service News, June 14 -- chirp elt Dr. Thomas T. Surprenant Professor & Acting Chair/Director Queens College Graduate School of Library & Information Studies