Analysis on the Status Quo and Characteristics of Employment of Foreign iSchools Graduates

  • Guo Xiaotong Si Li Wang Chen Luo Quan Pan Qi
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Received date: 2019-10-14

  Online published: 2020-02-29

Abstract

The paper aims to study the employment characteristics of iSchools professional graduates in library, archives and information science, and provide effective feedback for the reform and innovation of education. The paper used the web site survey and content analysis methods. By logging on iSchools homepages, collect figures on employment field, employment unit, job title, employment rate, salary etc., for detailed analysis. The paper gets some findings: The employment fields of graduates are extensive and expanding, and closely related to the majors in the school; the employment units are concentrated in public utilities and private enterprise units, but different positions have different work content and quite different requirements. The employment rate of the US iSchools is generally rising steadily and salary is the middle and upper levels; the employment rate of Canadian iSchools is very different and so are the salary levels for graduates from different universities and different majors; Private enterprises pay higher salary than public libraries.

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Guo Xiaotong Si Li Wang Chen Luo Quan Pan Qi . Analysis on the Status Quo and Characteristics of Employment of Foreign iSchools Graduates[J]. Library & Information, 2020 , 40(01) : 89 -95 . DOI: 10.11968/tsyqb.1003-6938.2020011

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