Global Library and Information Science

✍ Scribed by Ismail Abdullahi (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter Saur
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 730
• Series: IFLA Publications; 174
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This 2nd edition of the highly successful Global Library and Information Science presents an up-to-date review of international librarianship and library science through insightful and well written chapters contributed by experts and scholars from all 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, 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.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
About IFLA
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Part 1: Africa
1. Introduction
2. Public Libraries
3. Academic Libraries
4. School libraries
5. LIS Education
Part 2: Asia
6. Introduction
7. Public Libraries
8. Academic Libraries
9. School Libraries
10. Special Libraries
11. LIS Education
Part 3: Australasia
12. Introduction
13. Public Libraries
14. Academic Libraries
15. Special Libraries
16. School Libraries
17. LIS Education
Part 4: Europe
18. Introduction
19. Public Libraries
20. Academic Libraries
21. School Libraries
22. LIS Education
Part 5: Latin America
23. Introduction
24. Public Libraries
25. Academic Libraries
26. School Libraries
27. LIS Education
Part 6: North America
28. Introduction
29. Public Libraries
30. Academic Libraries
31. Special Libraries
32. School Libraries
33. LIS Education
Part 7: Library Associations
34. Global Library Associations
Contributors