Adapting Education for School Librarianship

Education for librarianship: Some persistent issues

As education for librarianship approaches its centenary it is curious to note how many of the issues debated over the course of the last hundred years still remain unresolved today. Some of these are quite fundamental to the whole matter of education for a profession. In its strictly defined sense of formal full-time instruction, in an institution of higher education, specifically in librarians...

Miles O. Price and Education for Law Librarianship

Innovative Partnerships: Exploring School Librarianship through a Global Lens

Institutional ethnography uncovers how institutional factors shape practice in sometimes unrecognized ways. This IE study on Brazilian school librarianship, conducted in the summer of 2013 in Florianópolis, SC, Brazil, uncovers similar challenges experienced by school library professionals the world over, as well as unique approaches informed by Brazilian culture.

Adapting Engineering Education to Industrie 4.0 Vision

Industrie 4.0 is originally a future vision described in the high-tech strategy of the German government that is conceived upon the information and communication technologies like Cyber-Physical Systems, Internet of Things, Physical Internet and Internet of Services to achieve a high degree of flexibility in production, higher productivity rates through real-time monitoring and diagnosis, and a...

DAN BERGEN Implications of General Systems Theory for Librarianship and Higher Education

ed, and concrete systems. Differentiating abstracted systems from conceptual systems by suggesting that the former are more likely to have empirically determined components, Miller argues that the unification of the sciences would proceed more rapidly if all of the sciences were oriented to either con115 Easton, op. cit., pp. 65-66. 11o Ibid., pp. 27-30, 33-34, 44-45, 64-66. ur See Alfred North...