Educating the profession : 40 Years of the IFLA Section on Education and Training / edited by Michael Seadle and Clara M. Chu ; with Ulrike Stockel and Breanne Crumpton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Seadle, Michael, editor.

Chu, Clara M., editor.

Stöckel, Ulrike, editor.

Crumpton, Breanne, editor.

Series:

IFLA publications ; Volume 170.

IFLA Publications, 0344-6891 ; Volume 170

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. Section on Government Information and Official Publications.

International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions.

Librarians.

Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (470 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter Saur, 2016.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Education and training for the library profession have changed over the decades, and this publication looks both at the past and the future of these developments at schools of library and information science as well as the role of IFLA's Section on Education and Training. The chapters cover regional developments in Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and the Americas; special topics, such as quality assurance and case studies; and future considerations in LIS education.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

About IFLA

Acknowledgement

Welcome

1. Development of the Profession

Introduction

2. European Library and Information Science Schools

3. “Expertise ... Certification ... Cultural Capital”

4. New Approaches, Structural and Organizational Changes in the PhD Programme in LIS/IS

5. Library and Information Science Education and Training in Serbia

6. Anglophone Africa: Ibadan Sixty Years on

7. Fifteen Years of Training Librarians in French-speaking Sub-Saharan Africa

8. Library Education in Nigeria

9. What’s in a Name? A Brief History of Informatics Education

10. Library and Information Science (LIS) Education in Mexico

11. Library Education in Peru

12. LIS Education in the United Arab Emirates

13. Looking back through More than One Hundred Years of LIS Education in India and Looking ahead

14. The Development, Challenges, and Opportunities of Library and Information Science Education in Indonesia

15. The University of the Philippines (UP) School of Library and Information Studies

16. The Australian LIS Education Journey

17. International Quality Assurance in LIS Education

18. The Rise and Fall of the Library Science Library

19. The Bibliotheca Alexandrina’s Role in Library and Information Science Education and Training

20. Trends in Librarianship Training in Germany

21. Undergraduate Distance Education in LIS in Spain 1999–2014

22. In Search of New Horizons

23. From Professional Qualifications to iSchool@northumbria

Contributors

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 24, 2016).

ISBN:

9783110396348

3110396343

9783110375398

3110375397

OCLC:

958547779