Digital library education

Ma, Yunlong; Clegg, W.W.; O’Brien, Ann

doi:10.1145/1141753.1141786

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“…Digital Library Education (DLE) is assuming increasing importance and it is clear there is a pressing need from social trends and technology for educational developments in this new and fast moving area. Our latest review of progress in DLE and other recent studies [1,2] pointed out that the number of library schools offering DL education is still growing. promulgated from LIS based programmes [1,2].…”

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Digital library education

O’Brien

Clegg

2007

Proceedings of the 7th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

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Following our recent review of progress in Digital Library (DL) education [1], we present here a brief overview of current work to investigate the commonality/diversity of course structure between ten institutions outside North America which offer DL education in their library schools. The weighting of specifically DL module topic credits as a proportion of the overall course taught credits varies between 13% and 63%, and coverage of a proposed core topic set [2] is as high as 85%.

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Digital library education

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Clegg

2007

Proceedings of the 7th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

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“…A number of studies, such as Spink and Cool (1999), Saracevic and Dalbello (2001), Liu (2004), and Ma, Clegg, and O'Brien (2006), focus on exploring DL courses in various schools around the world and explore course contents and related things. The majority of the research on DL is conducted in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada.…”

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“…Their findings indicated a well acceptance of DL courses in different LIS schools studied. Ma et al (2006) also highlighted the importance of designing a DL curriculum based on a combination of practical and theoretical knowledge. Choi and Rasmussen (2006) conducted a study on DL practitioners to understand what is needed to train future LIS professionals.…”

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“…As reported by Ma et al (2006), many attendees of Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL '05) workshop on DL education were strongly in favor of integrating hands-on training in working DLs as part of the curriculum, although others proposed a hybrid curriculum to bring together strengths from diverse departments. The preference of practical aspects in DL curriculum by the faculty members of the LIS schools who participated in this study is noticeable in the DL education subject area preferences (see Table 4).…”

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Digital Library Education in Europe

Audunson

Shuva

2016

SAGE Open

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Research in digital libraries (DLs) has gained much interest across the globe. Most funding related to DL are available for building DLs, rather than producing digital librarians by developing the DL curricula and offering necessary funding to introduce state-of-the-art DL labs for future library professionals. Based on online surveys, this article investigates the status of DL education/courses in Europe, particularly, it examines the curriculum contents of DL courses, explores the future direction of library and information science (LIS) curricula, and identifies the competitors of LIS schools in the DL world. This study received responses from 54 LIS schools/departments in 27 European countries. The results of the current study clearly show that the majority of the LIS schools have already integrated digital librarianship in their regular bachelor's and master's degree programs. The importance of practical aspects in DL curricula has been highlighted by the authors. The study also reports the recommended books and journals on DL, direction of LIS curricula, and the competitors of LIS schools in the digital world. A number of future research directions have been offered by the authors. The authors expect that the study will contribute to the discussions and debates toward identifying subject elements for DL courses. The top subject areas based on their importance as reported by the participants of the current study should be taken into consideration before designing curricula for DLs and before developing a Europe-wide unique LIS curriculum.

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“…Several disciplines have an interest in the development of a graduate-level curriculum for digital library education; hence it can be argued that this effort must be interdisciplinary in order to be successful (Kajberg & Lørring, 2005). In particular, computer science and information and library science have been actively developing courses and programs in this area (Ma, Clegg, & O'Brien, 2006). Efforts to date have been locally-based and dependent upon specific institutional needs.…”

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Core Topics in Digital Library Education

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Wildemuth

Pomerantz

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Handbook of Research on Digital Libraries

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This chapter introduces the effort of developing a digital library (DL) curriculum by an interdisciplinary team from Virginia Tech and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It presents the foundations of the curriculum building, the DL curriculum framework, the DL educational module template, a list of draft modules that are currently developed and evaluated by multiple experts in the area, and more details about the resources used in the draft modules and DL-related workshop topics mapped to the DL curriculum framework. The use of information systems such as DLs is increasing in education and businesses. To better-support their users, DLs must include both a well-organized underlying architecture and a set of services designed to address their potential users’ information needs. For this vision of the future to come to fruition, information professionals need to be educated to establish and manage digital libraries. The proposed curriculum framework provides a firm foundation for these important educational activities.

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Digital library education

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