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Conference Session 199

LIS Education in Developing Countries: Collaboration Across Borders as Infinite Possibilities

LIS Education in Developing Countries Special Interest Groups

Congress track 2: Policy, strategy and advocacy.

22 August 2013 08:30 - 10:30 | Room: Summit 1

• Enhancing library and information science education through cross-border collaboration: the experience of University of Ibadan, Nigeria and University of Ghana
  ABIOLA ABIOYE (Department of Library , Archival and Information Studies, Ibadan, Nigeria)
• Collaboration across boarders as infinite possibilities: prospects, challenges and solutions to the Consortium of LIS Educators in the Standing Conference of Eastern, Central and Southern Africa Librarians (SCECSAL) region in partnership with American universities
  ISAAC M.N. KIGONGO-BUKENYA (The East African School of Library and Information Science, Mekerere University, Kampala, Uganda)
• The improvements in quality of LIS Education through the mutual international exchanges of students in the East Asia
  TAKASHI NAGATSUKA, HIROYUKI TSUNODA and TOMOKO HARADA (Dept. of Library, Archival and Information Studies, Tsurumi University, Tsurumi-Yokohama, Japan)
• The LIS school in the ICT age: a casualty, or catalyst for making a "cross-border" shift of a different type? - the case of South Africa
  JAYA RAJU (Libraries and Information Studies Centre, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa)
• Specialised education for STEM libraries in LIS schools of South Asia
  AJAY PRATAP SINGH (Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India)
• Challenges and problems of Library and Information Science Education in selected African countries
  PETER BURNETT (International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP), Oxford, United Kingdom)
• Teaching and learning for development through collaborative curriculum design: a study of University of Botswana, Botswana and University of Calabar, Nigeria
  ENO JOSEPH OTTONG and UBONG JOSEPH OTTONG (Department of Library and Information Science, University of Calabar, Calabar, Nigeria)