{"id":38275,"date":"2013-09-10T10:35:56","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T14:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=38275"},"modified":"2013-09-10T11:20:07","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T15:20:07","slug":"considerations-for-an-mlis-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=38275","title":{"rendered":"Considerations for an MLIS Abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">. .\u00a0<\/span> by Matthew Tansek, Head Editor, <a href=\"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?page_id=5725\" target=\"_blank\">INALJ Rhode Island<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Considerations for an MLIS Abroad<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inalj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/2013-07-15-08.37.51.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-32061\" alt=\"Matthew Tansek\" src=\"https:\/\/inalj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/2013-07-15-08.37.51-300x225.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"135\" \/><\/a>Looking for a more exotic local to complete your library and information science degree, but worried that you may not be able to get a job back here in the states?\u00a0 Have no fear, I\u2019m going to give you all of the information you\u2019ll need.<\/p>\n<p>The first thing that you need to understand is that while there may be many choices for where to earn a MLIS degree (or equivalent), <strong>if your goal is to get a job back in the USA than you need to make sure that you will graduate from a ALA-accredited program.\u00a0<\/strong>The following are a list of countries given by the ALA as having a formal accreditation process and are deemed worthy of training those to work within the united states.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alia.org.au\/employment-and-careers\/accredited-courses\" target=\"_blank\">Australia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em;\">Germany<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><a style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ibi.hu-berlin.de\/teaching\/master\">Berlin School of Library and Information Science<\/a>\u00a0<span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em; line-height: 1.6875;\">(Institut f\u00fcr Bibliotheks und Informationswissenschaft)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ibi.hu-berlin.de\/\" target=\"_blank\">Humboldt-Universit\u00e4t zu Berlin<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libraryassociation.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ireland<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lianza.org.nz\/career\/qualifications\" target=\"_blank\">New Zealand<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wkwsci.ntu.edu.sg\/Pages\/Home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Singapore<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cilip.org.uk\/cilip\/jobs-careers\/starting-library-and-information-career\/how-become-librarian-or-information\" target=\"_blank\">United Kingdom<\/a><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Once you have earned your degree from one of these institutions, I was surprised to learn that you need to have your transcript reviewed. Below are the more prominent organizations dedicated to this process:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aacrao.org\/index.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Foreign Education Credential Service<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ece.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Educational Credential Evaluators, Inc.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.icdel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">International Consultants of Delaware, Inc.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wes.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">World Education Services<\/a><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Throughout your searching you may come across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cilip.org.uk\/\">CILIP<\/a> (Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals) and wonder how that may fit into your plans. For the most part, you can think of <strong>CILIP<\/strong> as the UK\u2019s version of ALA. There is an agreement between the two organizations, which allows for a degree earned in either to be considered equivalent in the other. The UK is one of the few countries other than the United States where a Master&#8217;s degree in library science is often a requirement for many jobs within libraries. For example, the <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.alia.org.au\/\">ALIA<\/a> (Australian Library and Information Association) offers many tempting programs, but the degree does not hold as much weight as a Master&#8217;s degree, and will not be considered sufficient in the UK or the US.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some additional ideas for MLIS programs outside of the USA :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mastersportal.eu\/search\/?q=ci-30%7Cdi-59%7Clv-master%7C%7C887bbce8\">Study Portal : 24 Masters Degree Programs in Library science in the UK<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/studyindenmark.dk\/study-in-denmark\/danish-higher-education-institutions\/university-level-institutions-of-fine-and-performing-arts-design-and-architecture\/the-royal-school-of-library-and-information-science\/royal-school-of-library-and-information-science\">Study in Denmark : The Royal School of Library and Information Science<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.victoria.ac.nz\/sim\/study\/postgraduate\/mis#prospective\">New Zealand &#8211; Victoria University of Wellington Masters in Library and Information Science<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goethe.de\/wis\/bib\/fdk\/en9845638.htm\">Goethe Institut &#8211; What Library Science is Like in Germany<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cisap.asia\/schools\/china.htm\">Library and Information Science in Asia (Compilation)\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. .\u00a0 by Matthew Tansek, Head Editor, INALJ Rhode Island Considerations for an MLIS Abroad Looking for a more exotic local to complete your library and information science degree, but worried that you may not be able to get a job back here in the states?\u00a0 Have no fear, I\u2019m going to give you all&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=38275\">Read more \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[69,3592,3626,5275,3942,303],"class_list":["post-38275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-article","tag-blog","tag-inalj-rhode-island","tag-international-programs","tag-matthew-tansek","tag-mlis"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1WoMK-9Xl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}