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International and Comparative Librarianship : Concepts and Methods for Global Studies / Peter Johan Lor.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Global Studies in Libraries and InformationPublisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Saur, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (XLIV, 905 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110267914
  • 9783110395846
  • 9783110267990
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 020.621
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- About IFLA -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Statement of institutional affiliation -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- List of Acronyms, Initialisms and Abbreviations used in the text -- Part I: Concepts -- 1. From local to global: the expanding horizons of libraries and related information organizations -- 2. A field of study and research -- 3. Conceptual exploration -- Part II: Method -- 4. Preparing for research: metatheoretical considerations -- 5. Methodological decisions -- 6. Method: procedures, techniques, instruments -- Part III: Political economy -- 7. The political economy of LIS -- 8. Access to knowledge and global flows of information -- Part IV: Influence -- 9. International influence and diffusion of ideas in LIS -- 10. Colonialism, development, and aid -- 11. LIS development and aid (1) -- 12. LIS development and aid (2) -- 13. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Based on his extensive experience in international librarianship, Peter Johan Lor, South Africa's first National Librarian and a former Secretary General of the IFLA, has written the first comprehensive and systematic overview of international and comparative librarianship. His book provides a conceptual framework and methodological guidelines for the field and covers the full range of international relations among libraries and information services, with particular attention to the international political economy of information, the international diffusion of innovations and policy in library and information services, LIS development and international aid. It concludes with a discussion of the practical relevance and future of international and comparative studies in LIS. See a short interview with Peter Lor on his work https://www.ifla.org/node/92590
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Frontmatter -- About IFLA -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Statement of institutional affiliation -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- List of Acronyms, Initialisms and Abbreviations used in the text -- Part I: Concepts -- 1. From local to global: the expanding horizons of libraries and related information organizations -- 2. A field of study and research -- 3. Conceptual exploration -- Part II: Method -- 4. Preparing for research: metatheoretical considerations -- 5. Methodological decisions -- 6. Method: procedures, techniques, instruments -- Part III: Political economy -- 7. The political economy of LIS -- 8. Access to knowledge and global flows of information -- Part IV: Influence -- 9. International influence and diffusion of ideas in LIS -- 10. Colonialism, development, and aid -- 11. LIS development and aid (1) -- 12. LIS development and aid (2) -- 13. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index

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Based on his extensive experience in international librarianship, Peter Johan Lor, South Africa's first National Librarian and a former Secretary General of the IFLA, has written the first comprehensive and systematic overview of international and comparative librarianship. His book provides a conceptual framework and methodological guidelines for the field and covers the full range of international relations among libraries and information services, with particular attention to the international political economy of information, the international diffusion of innovations and policy in library and information services, LIS development and international aid. It concludes with a discussion of the practical relevance and future of international and comparative studies in LIS. See a short interview with Peter Lor on his work https://www.ifla.org/node/92590

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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