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Discussions concerning the education and training of information specialists have been going on for at least a dozen years. Meanwhile, external conditions and circumstances have been changing, particularly those involving the market, for the services of this group of professionals. As an attendant at most of the meetings and conferences at which these discussions have taken place and as an avid reader of the proceedings which they inevitably generated, I have never felt that I could come away with suggestions and guidelines which could be easily adapted to the solution of my own problems as an educator in a graduate school program. I have also been somewhat reluctant to engage in polemics concerning questions of basic educational philosophy on the one hand and specific curricula and course topics on the other, since I could not circumvent the problems resulting from differing educational backgrounds.
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Welt, I.D. (1975). A Pragmatic Approach to the Education and Training of Information Professionals. In: Debons, A., Cameron, W.J. (eds) Perspectives in Information Science. NATO Advances Study Institutes Series, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7759-7_45
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