International librarianship : : developing professional, intercultural, and educational leadership / / edited by Constantia Constantinou, Michael J. Miller and Kenneth Schlesinger.

International librarianship stems from a desire to bring about political change, transcultural understanding, collaboration, and mutual respect. Historically, librarians have been deeply involved with challenging issues of information sharing, equity in information access, and bridging the digital d...

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Place / Publishing House:New York : : State University of New York Press,, [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:SUNY Press Open Access
Physical Description:1 online resource (190 pages) :; illustrations, photographs, tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Academic exchanges
  • The Toronto Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration-Library Science Program : case study in global librarianship in Ethiopia / Sandra Kendall
  • Connecting with the university of Hong Kong for program and professional development / Lesley S.J. Farmer
  • The CUNY-Shanghai Library Faculty Exchange Program : participants remember, reflect, and reshape / Sheau-yueh J. Chao, Beth Evans, Ryan Phillips, Mark Aaron Polger, Beth Posner, Ellen Sexton
  • Fulbright experiences
  • Transcending ethnic, racial, and political conflict to achieve understanding between the Greek and Turkish Cypriot library communities / Constantia Constantinou
  • The unfinished work : organizational democracy / John Lubans, Jr
  • Librarians building digital learning objects supporting cultural understanding : Fulbright-Hays Seminar Abroad in Morocco and Tunisia / Michael J. Miller
  • Cape crusade : building the Steve Biko Centre's library and archive in South Africa's Eastern Cape / Kenneth Schlesinger
  • Information literacy and access
  • Together we are better : international collaboration supporting information access in the Dominican Republic / Loida García-Febo, Adriana McCleer
  • How do you say penguin in Kaqchikel? : promoting literacy in Guatemala / Stephen E. Stratton
  • International partnerships
  • Building capacity for international librarianship through intercultural professional partnerships and civil society outreach in Tanzania / Chantal Phillips
  • Partnering in international library development : Lubuto Library Partners, Zambia Library Service, and Zambia's Ministry of Education / Elizabeth Cramer
  • Training models
  • Peace corps training for sustainable library development projects / Marcy Carrel.