We must unify practice and research: a natural partnership: LIS programs and campus libraries. (Editorial).(library and information studies)

An enduring mystery of our field is why the graduate programs in library and information studies (LIS)--the library schools--are not integrated with, or at least close partners of, the libraries and librarians at their parent colleges and universities. The value of the idea seems obvious. Here is a graduate professional program occupying the same campus as a working model of the agency and service for which students are being educated. It is hard to understand why these partnerships, these collaborations between natural allies, are so rare.

As a laboratory, a place to gain experience through internships/student assistantships, and an example for study and …