Mary Ellen Bates’ blog post on “Is an MLS Still Relevant” isn’t surprising, but should be noted by anyone with an MLS or anyone planning on pursuing a career in Library and Information Science. The big takeaways from this post are that candidates with a MLS must have the following skills to make them relevant in today’s job market:
- Ability to strategize
- Build deliverables
- Provide data visualization
- Understand what data is saying and tell the story
- Summarize information
- Communicate value
- Market yourself and the information center
- Utilize traditional online sources and new social media for a variety of research needs
So, how relevant is your MLS? Do you feel your degree has prepared you for the points above?
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Very nicely done. It is a good reminder to not throw out everything and start from scratch, but rather, to keep what has substance and use. If we don’t keep up with the technology then it will leave us behind, but that doesn’t mean that our skills lack value.