International Libraries: An Open Textbook
by Amanda B. Reed - Author / Sarah M.H. Johnson - Author / Heather Severson - Author / Michael Green - Author / Melissa…
International Libraries: An Open Textbook is a reference sourcebook about the libraries and the field of librarianship in non-North American countries around the world. Each chapter in this volume includes a profile of a featured country’s variety of libraries, its library histories, its systems of library education, and its library practices, laws, and professional associations. Graduate students in the University at Buffalo’s Department of Information Science authored these chapters for the LIS 503: International Librarianship course during the summer term of 2019. The text was developed under the a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) as an open educational resource that can be adapted for future sections of the International Librarianship course or for similar courses offered in library and information programs at other institutions.
Description from Open Textbook Library.
- Publisher
- The University at Buffalo
- Year
- 2019
- Subjects
- Social Sciences - Library Science and Museum Studies
- Licence
- Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike, as Open Textbook Library states it. Non-commercial use only.
- Who can read
- Teens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects