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International Libraries: An Open Textbook
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Amanda B. Reed
Sarah M.H. Johnson
Heather Severson
Michael Green
Melissa L. Rubin
Anne Windholz
Celia J. Dehais
Hannah Taylor
Sioban Gilligan
Mien Wong
Laura E. Cernik
Matthew C. Davis
Christine E. Gates
Mallory S. Quinn
Deanna K. Roberts
Emily Wejchert
Kathleen Lynch
Sarah R. Harrington
Anita Duka
Tara E.M. Montini
Sally Schaefer
Copyright Year:
Last Update: 2023
Publisher: The University at Buffalo
Language: English
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Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
CC BY-NC-SA
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Contributing Authors
- Copyright
- Austrailia
- China
- Costa Rica
- Croatia
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Hong Kong
- Iceland
- Japan
- Ireland
- New Zealand
- Palestine
- Poland
- Portugal
- Spain
- Sweden
- Turkey
- United Arab Emirates
Ancillary Material
Submit ancillary resourceAbout the Book
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.
About the Contributors
Authors
Amanda B. Reed
Sarah M.H. Johnson
Heather Severson
Michael Green
Melissa L. Rubin
Anne Windholz
Celia J. Dehais
Hannah Taylor
Sioban Gilligan
Mien Wong
Laura E. Cernik
Matthew C. Davis
Christine E. Gates
Mallory S. Quinn
Deanna K. Roberts
Emily Wejchert
Kathleen Lynch
Sarah R. Harrington
Anita Duka
Tara E.M. Montini
Sally Schaefer