There have been many comments about the state of LIS education but most have, in my view, centered on the wrong issues. The need is not to revamp curricular offerings to ensure there is a course on cataloging taught to everyone (it’s actually already there in most programs), or to cast the world into the stereotypical division of of people-centric libraries versus technology, but to work harder on quality control throughout the LIS education world. You can download a PDF of a paper April Norris and I wrote on this for the Journal of Education in Library and Information Science if you care to read more by clicking here: Crying Wolf
V.M Daniel Regents Professor of Information