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Keren Dali; Deborah Charbonneau – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2024
This article presents the Holistic Empowering Methodological Approach (HEMA), which is philosophically informed by the concept of diversity by design; epistemologically and methodologically guided by hermeneutic phenomenology; and supported by the method of qualitative survey combined with the Single Question Aimed at Inducing Narrative (SQUIN)…
Descriptors: Library Science, Doctoral Programs, Information Science Education, Doctoral Students
Harvey, John F. – 1971
This essay attempts to compare and contrast certain Iranian and American library serial selection policies. It assumes that many similarities exist between the selection policies of the two countries, but that special problems and contrasts exist in each one, also. The paper concentrates on the policies of two specific institutions, Drexel…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, Information Centers
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Willingham, Patricia; Carder, Linda; Millson-Martula, Christopher – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2006
A brief historical overview of the library instruction scene in the United States and Canada, an analysis of library instruction conference themes, and the identification of perceptions of librarians attending the LOEX, WILU, and LOEX of the West conferences in 2000 and 2001 reveal that the border may be responsible for significant differences…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Library Instruction, Information Literacy, Comparative Analysis
Ryan, Frederick – Library Journal, 1981
Despite obvious and fundamental differences, contemporary library issues strikingly familiar to those of the west also beset the Soviet library world--issues that so far have been bridged in only technical apolitical areas. Governmental insistence on the centrality of ideology to library service remains an international stumbling block.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, International Relations, Library Education
Murgai, Sarla R. – 1999
This study compared the managerial motivations of library and information science (LIS) students in the United States with LIS students in India, Singapore, and Japan. The students responded to a questionnaire containing 41 statements on managerial motivation. These statements were divided into 10 categories: task orientation, fear of success,…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Comparative Analysis, Females, Foreign Countries
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Evans, G. Edward – Education for Information, 1986
Examines factors causing some U.S. library schools to take a broader view of their mission (economic recession, technological advancements); changes that have taken place in Nordic library school curricula since 1972; and similarities and differences between American and Nordic library schools, and extent to which UNESCO harmonization concept is…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Change, Educational Trends