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Losing the Quality Battle in Australian Education for Librarianship
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Harvey, Ross – Australian Library Journal, 2011
The author asserts that something is wrong with university-based education for librarianship in Australia. Librarianship does not have a clear disciplinary identity in universities. The lack of differentiation between the roles of technicians and professionals clouds the issue. For these and other reasons, education for librarianship in Australia…
Descriptors: Library Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Quality Assurance
Sunday Opening in UK Public Libraries
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Moore, Chris; Creaser, Claire – Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 2010
This paper presents a summary of the first survey of public library authorities in the UK to explore Sunday opening, undertaken in 2007 as part of the Clore Leadership Programme. It provides a snapshot of Sunday opening practice, set against a context of societal, economic, and policy developments, and examines whether Sunday opening furthers the…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Foreign Countries, Library Services, Library Research
Managing an Open Access, Multi-Institutional, International Digital Library: The Digital Library of the Caribbean
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Wooldridge, Brooke; Taylor, Laurie; Sullivan, Mark – Resource Sharing & Information Networks, 2009
Developing an Open Access, multi-institutional, multilingual, international digital library requires robust technological and institutional infrastructures that support both the needs of individual institutions alongside the needs of the growing partnership and ensure continuous communication and development of the shared vision for the digital…
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, Performance Factors, Library Automation, Library Development
Indigenous Digital Collections: An Early Look at the Organisation and Culture Interface
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Nakata, Martin; Nakata, Vicky; Gardiner, Gabrielle; McKeough, Jill; Byrne, Alex; Gibson, Jason – Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 2008
This article identifies and provides some commentary on the key issues emerging from research into the digitisation of Indigenous materials in collections conducted in collaboration with three state libraries. It situates the research project within the broader context of related activity aimed at addressing the ongoing challenges of access,…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, Library Automation, Library Materials, Government Libraries
An International Collaboration: Establishing an Education Collection in a Library in Qatar
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Smith, Jane – Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, 2008
Texas A&M University has a history of international collaboration, cooperation and global outreach. Texas A&M University at Qatar provides engineering students in the Middle East with an education, and ultimately, a degree comparable to that found on our home campus in College Station. The Texas A&M University Libraries have provided…
Descriptors: Library Materials, Schools of Education, International Cooperation, Library Facilities
Internationalisation: Australian Librarians and Expanding Roles in Higher Education
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Becker, Linda K. W. – Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 2006
This article presents an overview of a research project that was designed as a way to understand the role of Australian academic librarians in internationalising library, university, and higher education practice. In an attempt to discover what it is that librarians actually do, a survey of university librarians was undertaken to find how they…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Librarians, Educational Practices