Education
An Information Professional may receive a range of undergraduate and graduate degrees in Archival Studies, Information Systems, Information Science, Information Studies, Knowledge Management, Library Science, Records Management and other related degree programs. In North America, most degrees are granted by institutions that are accredited by the American Library Association (ALA). In the United Kingdom, the regulating body is the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP). In South Africa, there is the Library and Information Association of South Africa (LIASA). Most countries have a professional association who oversee the professional standards of its members. These associations are all members of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). Many of these educational institutions refer to themselves as an iSchool and are members of the iSchool Caucus. Similarly, in Asia, there exists a consortium of iSchools called the Consortium of iSchools Asia-Pacific (CiSAP).
In 2012, the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM) established a "Certified Information Professional" (CIP) certification. Developed in accordance with ISO Standard 17024, assuring conformity to accepted procedures for certification programs, CIP candidates must demonstrate knowledge of the six information management domain areas: 1) access/use, 2) capture/manage, 3) collaborate/deliver, 4) secure/preserve, 5) architecture/systems, and 6) plan/implement.
Read more about this topic: Information Professional
Famous quotes containing the word education:
“Casting an eye on the education of children, from whence I can make a judgment of my own, I observe they are instructed in religious matters before they can reason about them, and consequently that all such instruction is nothing else but filling the tender mind of a child with prejudices.”
—George Berkeley (1685–1753)
“Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man’s training begins, its probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)