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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

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    Last Update: 2023

    Publisher: The University at Buffalo

    Language: English

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    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

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    About 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.  

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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

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