Is the West best?: Education for School Information Service Professionals

Abstract

School Library Educators in developing countries have, in the main, been training School Infomration Professionals using models of education developed in the United States and Europe. While there have been some local modifications to these western models few countries have developed truly local education programs for Infomation Servie Professional. This is due, in part, to the fact that the Information Services that students are being educated to work with are global information services often based on series …