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Handbook of Research on Digital Libraries: Design, Development, and Impact
The study of issues related to the library and information field.
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A Review of Progress in Digital Library Education
Yongqing Ma (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand), Warwick Clegg (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand), and Ann O’Brien (Loughborough University, UK)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 10
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-879-6.ch055
Abstract
In this entry, we review the history, development and current status of digital library (DL) courses and programmes now being offered, mainly by universities/institutions with accredited programmes or courses by CILIP (the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals) and ALA (American Library Association), and review the latest thinking and potential curriculum developments on the topic of how best to educate and train digital librarians. Trends in digital library education (DLE) are presented including: Data from four major and earlier studies relating to DLE, Main survey date: institutions offering DL programmes /courses as at the end of October 2006, Recent developments of DL curriculum (potential standard models) as at the end of June 2007.
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Usage of Social Media Among LIS Students in India
(Sometimes given as the plural library and information sciences) or as “library and information studies” is a merging of library science and information science. The joint term is associated with schools of library and information science (abbreviated to “SLIS”). In the last part of the 1960s, schools of librarianship, which generally developed from professional training programs (not academic disciplines) to university institutions during the second half of the twentieth century, began to add the term “information science” to their names.
Published in Chapter: Usage of Social Media Among LIS Students in India; From: Literacy Skill Development for Library Science Professionals
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