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crl-24928	Hu, Yuerong; Ocepek, Melissa G.; Downie, John Stephen; Barker, Lecia	Listen to Librarians: Highlighted Core Competencies for Librarianship from the Perspectives of Working Librarians	2022-11-03	20	.pdf	application/pdf	9530	371	33	It makes us think about what core competencies LIS students should acquire to prepare for ongoing transitions as well as incoming challenges. However, the topics under the umbrella of librarians’ core competencies are nothing novel; they have been deeply rooted in the historical discourse in library science core curriculum for nearly a century.7 In the late twentieth century, although there had existed several library science school standards and curriculum guidelines put forward by organi- zations such as The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) and American Library Association (ALA),8 almost no consensus had been reached on the core curricula or accreditation standards due to two facts: first, the dynamic sociotechnical environ- ment made the core competencies changeable; second, without any mechanism to ensure that consensus would be broadly accepted and applied, agreements on core competencies failed to make a difference in practice.9 For instance, ALA’s Standards for Accreditation 1972 was only a passing reference without any elaboration or enforcement.10 Consequently, library schools nationwide were still developing curricula on their own.11 ALA started to specify core competencies for graduates of ALA-accredited programs in the late 1990s.	cache/crl-24928.pdf	txt/crl-24928.txt