490 -- International Librarianship

Syllabus of course as taught by Sergio Chaparro can be found at http://web.simmons.edu/~chaparro/.

1. Intro

Importance of international librarianship

Librarians and information specialists are now working with colleague on the other side of the world and having to retrieve information and resources. We need to know what is going on in other areas and with other libraries in order to successfully utilize our own skills and understand where other librarians are coming from and what they expect.

2. International libraries in the U.S.

Kate (Leo Baeck Institute Library in Manhattan as a full-time intern. http://www.lbi.org/library.html )

• Quick overview of LBI's history and briefly describe LBI's New York library and archives as well as the functions of each of LBI's branch offices (in Jerusalem, London, and Berlin). Stress on the international flavor of the Institute.
• Brief overview of what she did as an LBI library intern (I was involved in pretty much all of the day to day activities -- book processing, pre-cataloging, reference services, supervising volunteers and some collection development).

3. International libraries in Europe (esp. Germany and Finland)

Annika

• Educational systems in Germany
• Background and expectations from and by libraries in other cultures
• Foreign librarian working in the U.S.

4. International libraries in Europe and Asia (esp. Germany and China)

Brittany - Worked during the summer as an intern at the ZLB in Berlin. http://www.zlb.de/index.html

• Chinese libraries - examples of librarians stories, catalogs, development.
• U.S. American working in a library in Germany - cultural differences, expectations.

5. Conclusion - world libraries

Third world libraries - funding, view, literacy, culture of the library, boat libraries.

The services of the public library are provided on the basis of equality of access for all, regardless of age, race, sex, religion, nationality, language or social status. Specific services and materials must be provided for those users who cannot, for whatever reason, use the regular services and materials, for example linguistic minorities, people with disabilities1 or people in hospital or prison (UNESCO, 1994).

Reading for the Leo Baeck Institute:

Leo Baeck Institute Year Book

Volume I (1956) - XXXVI (1991)

Volume XXXVII (1992) - L (2005)

General Index (vols. I-XX) & (vols. XXI-XXXIX)

Editors: 1956-1978, Robert Weltsch; 1970-1992, Arnold Paucker;

1993-1997, John Grenville, 1998 - 2000, John Grenville

Year Book on CD-ROM (Year 1956 - 1995)

Published by Berghahn Books, Oxford

KAPLAN, MARION (ed.): Jewish Daily Life in Germany, 1618-1945. Oxford: Oxford

University Press, 2005, 529 p. ill.

Interesting links:

List of National Libraries around the world:

http://www.library.uq.edu.au/natlibs/websites.html

Interesting Libraries:

Passchier, K (2002, February 26). Camels help provide Library Services. IFLA HQ. Retrieved September 14, 2006, from http://www.ifla.org/V/press/pr0228-02.htm

Whelan, D. L.(2005, October 1). Gates Floats Boat Libraries: River boats deliver books, technology to people in need. School Library Journal. Retrieved September 14, 2006, from SLJ.com http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6260609.html

Where to study LIS in the world:

http://www.db.dk/dbi/internet/schools.htm

http://informationr.net/wl/

SIR http://gslis.simmons.edu/mw/sir/Main_Page

Information about LIS in Germany (only available in German)

http://www.ulb.uni-muenster.de/ausbildung/bibliothek/

http://www.vdb-online.org/kommissionen/qualifikation/ausbildungsinfo.php

http://www.dgd.de/ausbildung/

Reading about Finish libraries

Haavisto, Tuula (2002). Networking Is the Key Word in Finnish Public Libraries. Public Libraries, 41 (1), p. 45 – 47.

Helsinki City Library (2006). Multilingual Library Services. Retrieved May 7th, 2006 from http://www.lib.hel.fi/page.asp?_item_id=3080&_lang_id=EN

Kekki, Kristi (2001). Public Libraries in Finland: Gateways to Knowledge and Culture. Retrieved February 28, 2006 from http://www.minedu.fi/minedu/culture/library/libraries_gateways.html

Libraries.fi (2005). Information about Libraries.fi. Retrieved April 19, 2006 from http://www.libraries.fi/en-GB/Info/

Library Act (1998). Retrieved February 28, 2006 from http://www.minedu.fi/minedu/culture/library/libraryact.html

Ministry of Education (2001). A wide range of culture and quality information retrieval in the library: The salient points and proposals in the Finnish Library Policy Programme 2001 – 2004. Committee’s report. Retrieved February 28, 2006 from http://www.minedu.fi/minedu/publications/librarypolicyprogramme.pdf

Ministry of Education (2003). Library Strategy 2010: Policy for access to knowledge and culture. Helsinki: Publications of the Ministry of Education. Retrieved February 28, 2006 from http://www.minedu.fi/minedu/publications/2003/kseng.pdf

Reading about libraries in China

Chu, J. (2001). Librarianship in China: the spread of Western influences. Library Management 22(4/5), 177-180.

Chen, S., & Liu, J. (2005, February). Using libraries in China: know before you go. College and Research Library News 66(2), 124-125, 130.

Library Association of China. Retrieved (n.d). Retrieved March 7, 2006, from http://www.infolit.org/members/china.htm

Pateman, J. (1999, February). Libraries and development in the People’s Republic of China. Asian Libraries, 8(2), 47-49. Retrieved March 11, 2006, from Emerald (10.1108/10176749910257678).

Song, Y. (2005, March). Continuing education in Chinese university libraries: issues and approaches. Libri, 55(1), 21-30.

Wang, B. (2003, March). The Development of the Three Largest Chinese Libraries in the Twentieth Century. Library History, 19(1), 13-22.

Further readings:

Graham, Patterson Toby (2001). Public librarians and the civil rights movement: Alabama, 1955 - 1965. Library Quarterly, 71 (1), p. 1 - 27.

Johnson, I. M. (2000). The role of associations and information and library education in teaching and research: Recent and potential developments in Britain and Europe, 18 (2/3), pp. 201- 220.

Lahiri, A. (2001). Impact of glasnost and perestroika on the Russian libraries. Journal of educational media & library sciences, 39 (2), p.114 - 130.

Larson, K. C. (2001). The Saturday evening girls: A progressive era library club and the intellectual life of working class and immigrant girls in turn-of-the-century Boston. The Library Quarterly, 71 (2), pp. 195 - 230.

Mediavilla, C. (1997). The War on books and ideas: The California Library association and anti- communist censorship in the 1940s and 1950s. Library Trends, 46 (2), pp. 331 - 347.

Moulaison, H.L. (2004). The Minitel and France’s legacy of democratic information access. Government information Quarterly, 21 (1), p. 99 - 107.

Richards, P. S. (1988). Information Science in wartime: Pioneer documentation activitiesin World War 2. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 39 (5), pp. 301 - 306.

Richards, P. S. (1989). Aslib at War: The brief but intrepid career of a library organization as a hub of allied scientific intelligence 1942- 1945. Journal of Education for Library and Information science, 29 (4), pp.279 - 96.

Richards, P.S. (1985). German libraries and scientific and technical information in Nazi Germany. Library Quarterly, 55 (2), pp.151 - 173.

Richards, P.S. (1988). Gathering enemy scientific information in wartime: The OSS and the Periodical republication Program. Journal of Library History, 16 (2), pp. 253 - 264.

Stieg, M. (1992). The Second World War and the Public libraries in Nazi Germany. Journal of Contemporary History, 27, pp. 23 - 40.

Tenopir, C. (2000) I never learned about that in library school: Curriculum changes in LIS. Online, 24 (2), 42 - 46.

Volodin, B. F. (2000) History of Librarianship, Library History , or information history: A view from Russia. The Library Quarterly, 70 (4), pp. 446 - 467.

Wiegand, W. (1999). Tunnel vision and blind spots: What the past tell us about the present: Reflections on the twentieth century history of American librarianship. The Library Quarterly, 69 (1), pp. 1 - 32.

Wiegand, W. A. (1997). Out of sight, out of mind: Why don’t we have scho ols any schools of library and reading studies? Journal of Education for Library and Information science, 38 (4), pp.314 - 326.

Willison, I.R. (1989). The National Library in Historical Perspective. Libraries and Culture, 24 (1), 75 - 91.

UNESCO & IFLA (1994, November). UNESCO/IFLA Public Library Manifesto. IFLA & UNESCO. Retrieved September 4, 2006, from http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=4638&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

Time: 10:00 am - 10:45 am

Location: E303