TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ahmed,Sumayya
AU  - Click,Amanda B.
AU  - Daniel,Evelyn H.
AU  - Drewry,Josiah
AU  - Flanagan,Daphne
AU  - Furno,Christine
AU  - Galli,Christof
AU  - Ghali,Walid
AU  - Hachani,Samir
AU  - Hill,Jacob
AU  - Houlihan,Meggan
AU  - Khalifa,Mahmoud
AU  - Martin III,John D.
AU  - Martin,Janet
AU  - Meho,Lokman I.
AU  - Moran,Barbara B.
AU  - Salamon,Anaïs
AU  - Scepanski,Jordan M.
AU  - Spencer,Jayme
AU  - Tonta,Yaşar
AU  - Wand,Patricia A.
AU  - Wiebe,Frieda
TI  - Library and Information Science in the Middle East and North Africa
T2  - Global Studies in Libraries and Information ,
SN  - 9783110341720
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston : 
PB  - De Gruyter Saur, 
KW  - Information science
KW  - Africa, North
KW  - Middle East
KW  - Libraries and education
KW  - Library science
KW  - Bibliothek
KW  - Golfstaaten
KW  - Informationswissenschaft
KW  - Nordafrika
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Library & Information Science / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Libraries, Information Science, Middle East, North Africa
N1  - Frontmatter --; About IFLA --; Acknowledgements --; Contents --; List of Tables, Figures, and Appendices --; Introduction --; 1. Arab Book Publishing --; 2. For a Morocco that Reads: The Crisis of Reading and Recent Initiatives to Revive Libraries and Reading in Morocco --; 3. A Bird’s Eye View of Two Open Access Experiences in Algeria: CERIST’s Webreview and Dépôt numérique de l’Université d’Alger I --; 4. Academic Librarianship and Coercion: A Case Study in the Occupied Palestinian Territories --; 5. American-style Academic Libraries in the Gulf Region --; 6. Information Literacy in the Middle East: A Case Study of the American University in Cairo and the American University of Sharjah --; 7. Aligning Library Services to the Emerging Online Capability of Emirati Students --; 8. Correlating Information Centers to Emerging Knowledge-based Economies --; 9. Education for Library and Information Science in the Arab States --; 10. Library and Information Science Research in the Arab World: A Systematic Review 2004–2013 --; 11. Addressing Bias in the Cataloging and Classification of Arabic and Islamic Materials: Approaches from Domain Analysis --; 12. Library Collaboration in the Middle East and North Africa --; 13. The State of Manuscript Digitization Projects in Some Egyptian Libraries and Their Challenges --; Contributors --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - This volume offers up-to-date insights into the state of library and information science (LIS) in the Middle East and North Africa. Covered topics include information literacy, intellectual property, LIS education and research, publishing and more. This timely contribution thus presents vital areas of research on a region that receives relatively little coverage and is currently experiencing rapid and significant changes
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110341782
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110341782
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110341782/original
ER  -