Conference Session 213

Building collaboration between LIS educators and practitioners in developing countries: transcending barriers, creating opportunities

LIS Education in Developing Countries Special Interest Group

Congress track 2: Policy, strategy and advocacy.

16 August 2012 13:45 - 15:45 | Room: Session Room 6

• Rising above the grain silo mentality through collaboration: creating opportunities between the LIS educators and practitioners in developing countries
  COLLENCE TAKAINGENHAMO CHISITA (Harare Polytechnic-School of Information Sciences, Harare, Zimbabwe) and ISMAIL ABDULLAHI (North Carolina Central University, Durham, North Carolina, USA)
• Improving library use by Tsurumi University students: a collaborative effort among educators, librarians and students
  TAKASHI NAGATSUKA, TOMOKO HARADA and TOYOHIRO HASEGAWA (Tsurumi University, Yokohama, Japan)
• Linking theory and practice in LIS education in Latin America and the Caribbean
  Translations: [Français] [Español]
  FILIBERTO FELIPE MARTÍNEZ ARELLANO and JAIME RÍOS ORTEGA (National Autonomous University of Mexico, Library and Information Science Research Institute, Mexico City, Mexico)
• Building collaboration between LIS educators and practitioners in Thailand: transcending barriers, creating opportunities
  CHUTIMA SACCHANAND (Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Bangkok, Thailand)
• Toward a Regional Consortium of LIS educators and practitioners in developing countries in partnership with American universities: barriers and opportunities in the Standing Conference of Eastern, Central and Southern Africa Librarians (SCECSAL) region
  ISAAC KIGONGO-BUKENYA (Uganda Christian University, Mukono, Uganda), WALLACE KOEHLER (Valdosta University, Valdosta, Georgia, USA) and KENDRA ALBRIGHT (University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, USA)
• Understanding the prospects and potential for improved regional LIS collaboration in the developing world: an empirical study of LIS departments in the GCC States
  MOHAMMED NASSER AL-SUQRI, NAIFA EID AL SALEEM (Sultan Qaboos University, Al-Khoud, Oman) and MAJDA EZZAT GHARIEB (King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia)