Conference Session 105

International and comparative librarianship: toward valid, relevant and authentic research and education

Library Theory and Research, Education and Training and LIS Education in Developing Countries Special Interest Group

Congress track 2: Policy, strategy and advocacy.

13 August 2012 13:45 - 18:00 | Room: Session Room 2 | SI

• Introduction: Towards excellence in international and comparative research in Library and Information Science
  PETER JOHAN LOR (University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa)
• Commonwealth of uncertainty: how British and American professional models of library practice have shaped LIS education in selected former British colonies and dominions
  MARY CARROLL (Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, Australia), PAULETTE KERR (University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica), ABDULLAHI I. MUSA (Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas, USA) and WASEEM AFZAL (Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, Australia)
• Improving the resources for supporting information literacy education in developing countries
  DAN DORNER (Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand)
• Faculty perceptions of librarian-led information literacy instruction in postsecondary education
  CHRISTINA NILSEN (Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC, Canada)
• Assessing the impact of Italian public libraries. A research study supported by the IFLA Researcher-Librarian Partnership
  SARA CHIESSI (Consorzio Sistema Bibliotecario Nord-Ovest, Milan, Italy)
• African libraries as centres of e-learning
  TORD HØIVIK (Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Oslo, Norway)
• Cataloguing and classification education and training in library and information science/studies in South Africa, Brazil and the USA
  DENNIS N. OCHOLLA and LYUDMILA OCHOLLA (University of Zululand, KwaDlangezwa, South Africa); HOPE A. OLSON and JEANNETTE R. GLOVER (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, USA) and JOSÉ AUGUSTO GUIMARÃES (Sao Paulo State University, Sao Paulo, Brazil)
• Agents of change: international librarianship, development, and globalization theory
  STEVE W. WITT (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA)
• Conclusion: lessons from International and Comparative Librarianship
  CLARA M. CHU (University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, USA)