The deliverable for this course is a reflective portfolio showing how I achieved the MSLIS program objectives.

List of The MSLIS program outcomes:

  1. Advance information equity and justice.

1.1 Identify situations where systemic information inequality exists.

1.2 Interrogate and internalize professional ethics, values, standards, and principles.

1.3 Create and support policies that reflect principles of a just and equitable information society.

1.4 Demonstrate a commitment to lifelong learning via engagement with users, communities, colleagues, and professional networks.

  1. Understand, engage, and serve users and their communities.

2.1 Assess the needs and goals of users and communities.

2.2 Engage diverse users and communities with empathy and cultural competence.

2.3 Elicit the voices of, advocate for, and collaborate with users as community partners in the provision of information resources and services.

2.4 Provide equitable, just, and culturally responsive services and resources.

2.5 Use educational theory, instructional design, and assessment to develop, implement, and evaluate education, training, and programming for a variety of learner audiences.

  1. Design and innovate to create equitable, just, and engaging information artifacts, including services, systems, spaces, resources, and technologies.

3.1 Apply a repertoire of design principles and practices to plan, develop, and create information artifacts.

3.2 Design artifacts that give users voice in decision-making regarding critical programs, services, and resources for diverse communities.

3.3 Critique existing designs to expose instances of inequity and injustice and move toward mitigation and repair.

  1. Lead and manage people and projects in an equitable, just, and culturally competent manner.

4.1 Apply leadership and management principles and practices to direct and manage people and projects.

4.2 Use positional power to advocate for information equity and justice.

4.3 Apply principles of equity and justice to ensure ethical decision-making.

4.4 Solve problems using empathy, evidence, and critical and creative thinking.

4.5 Facilitate communication with users, colleagues, and community stakeholders.

4.6 Direct and participate in responsive public relations, marketing, and development.

4.7 Manage information resources through the information life-cycle, including processes of information creation, collection development, representation, organization, preservation, curation, access, and dissemination.

  1. Demonstrate information literacy and technological agility.

5.1 Exercise expert information literacy skills including the ability to identify information needs, search, evaluate, produce, and use information ethically.

5.2 Apply knowledge of user information behavior in various contexts.

5.3 Employ research methods to investigate important questions; collect, analyze, evaluate, and communicate data; and interpret results from studies in library and information science and cognate fields.

5.4 Engage, evaluate, and deploy various technologies ethically and critically.