Global Library and Information Science: A Textbook for Students and Educators : with Contributions from Africa, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East, and North America

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Ismael Abdullahi
Walter de Gruyter, 2009 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 592 pages

This book presents international librarianship and library science through insightful and well written chapters contributed by experts and scholars from six regions of the world. The role of public, academic, special, school libraries, as well as library and information science education are presented from the early development to the present time. Its lively, readable approach will help the reader to understand librarianship in Africa, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East, and North America.
Edited by Ismail Abdullahi, Professor of Global Library and Information Science, this book is a must-read by library science students and teachers, librarians, and anyone interested in Global Librarianship.

 

Contents

FOREWORD
9
INTRODUCTION
11
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
13
INTRODUCTION
15
PUBLIC LIBRARIES
21
ACADEMIC LIBRARIES
45
SPECIAL LIBRARIES
68
SCHOOL LIBRARIES
91
ACADEMIC LIBRARIES
329
LIS EDUCATION
343
INTRODUCTION
365
PUBLIC LIBRARIES
367
UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES
382
SCHOOL LIBRARIES
395
LIS EDUCATION
405
INTRODUCTION
417

LIS EDUCATION
108
INTRODUCTION
133
PUBLIC LIBRARIES
137
ACADEMIC LIBRARIES
158
SPECIAL LIBRARIES
179
LIS EDUCATION
194
INTRODUCTION
221
PUBLIC LIBRARIES
223
ACADEMIC LIBRARIES
243
SPECIAL LIBRARIES
253
SCHOOL LIBRARIES
270
LIS EDUCATION
288
INTRODUCTION
305
PUBLIC LIBRARIES
311
PUBLIC LIBRARIES
421
ACADEMIC LIBRARIES
440
SPECIAL LIBRARIES
457
SCHOOL LIBRARIES
467
LIS EDUCATION
474
INTRODUCTION
491
PUBLIC LIBRARIES
493
ACADEMIC LIBRARIES
505
SPECIAL LIBRARIES
514
SCHOOL LIBRARIES
532
LIS EDUCATION
549
GLOBAL ROLES OF LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONS
564
Backmatter
579
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Ismail Abdullahi, North Carolina University, School of Library and Information Science, USA.

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