Sue Myburgh, Anna Maria Tammaro

Exploring Education for Digital Librarians (eBook, ePUB)

Meaning, Modes and Models

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Exploring Education for Digital Librarians provides a refreshing perspective on the discipline and profession of Library and Information Science (LIS), with a focus on preparing students for careers as librarians who can deal with present and future digital information environments. A re-examination of the knowledge base of the field, combined with a proposed theoretical structure for LIS, provide the basis for this work, which also examines competencies for practice as well as some of the international changes in the nature of higher education. The authors finally suggest a model that could be used internationally to educate librarians for their new roles and social responsibilities in a digitised, networked world.

The twelve chapters of this book cover key issues in education for digital librarians, including: the necessity of regenerating the profession; current contexts; previous research on education for digital librarians; understanding the dimensions of the discipline and profession of librarianship, and the distinctions between them; the social purpose of librarianship as a profession and the theoretical framework which supports the practice of the profession; a brief analysis of curriculum design, pedagogies and teaching methods, and a glimpse of the proactive and important future role of librarianship in society.

• Considers the ubiquitous misunderstanding that technology can replace libraries and librarians
• Provides a theoretical view of the field which can contribute awareness of dimensions of the dilemmas which the discipline/profession currently faces
• Presents a broad international perspective which provides a basis for a new model for LIS education

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781780633008
• Artikelnr.: 40159350

Autorenporträt

Sue Myburgh is currently Program Director of two postgraduate programs - in Knowledge Management and Internet Communication Strategies - at the University of South Australia. She has been involved in many aspects of the theory and practice of Information Management internationally over the last two decades. Amongst various honours received, she was a Fulbright Scholar and has been awarded the Britt Literary Award by the Association of Records Managers and Administrators International.