The International Federation of Library Associations was founded as early as 1927, but in recent years serious academic and practical work on and around international librarianship has flourished as never before. Now, this new title from Routledge’s Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies series meets the need for an authoritative collection of major works to make sense of a growing and ever more complex corpus of literature, and to provide a map of the area as it has emerged and developed. Organized in four volumes, it is a landmark collection of foundational and the best cutting-edge scholarship in the field.
International Librarianship is fully indexed and has a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editor, which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context. It is an essential work of reference and will be welcomed by scholars, librarians, library educators, and students as a vital one-stop research and pedagogic resource.
VOLUME I: AFRICA
Part 1: International Librarianship
1. Michael Keresztesi, ‘Prolegomena to the History of International Librarianship’, Journal of Library History, 1981, 16, 2, 435–48.
2. L.A. Ogunsola, ‘The Next Step in Librarianship: Is the Traditional Library Dead?’, Library Philosophy and Practice, 2011.
3. Charles Obiora Omekwu, ‘Managing Information and Technology: Critical Roles for Librarians in Developing Countries’, The Electronic Library, 2006, 24, 6, 847–63.
Part 2: Libraries in Africa
4. Betty A. Marton, ‘Revitalizing African Libraries: The Challenge of a Quiet Crisis’ (Carnegie Corporation, 2000), pp. 1–7.
5. J. J. Britz and P. J. Lor, ‘The Role of Libraries in Combating Information Poverty in Africa’, in R. N. Sharma (ed.), The Impact of Technology on Asian, African, and Middle Eastern Library Collections (Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2006), pp. 103–26.
6. Kingo J. Mchombu, ‘African Librarianship: Reality or Illusion?’, in Kathleen de la Pena McCook, Barbara J. Ford, and Kate Lippincott (eds.), Libraries: Global Reach–Local Touch (American Library Association, 1998), pp. 150–6.
7. James Afebuameh Aiyebelehin, ‘General Structures, Literatures, and Problems of Libraries: Revisiting the State of Librarianship in Africa’, Library Philosophies and Practice, 2012, 1–20.
8. Otugbade S. Oladokun, ‘The Practice of Distance Librarianship in Africa’, Library Review, 2002, 51, 6, 293–300.
9. Dennis Ocholla, Lyudmila Ocholla, and Bosire O. Onyancha, ‘Insight into Research Publication Output of Academic Librarians in Southern African Public Universities from 2002–2011’, African Journal of Library, Archives & Information Science, 1995, 23, 1, 5–22.
10. Elisha R. T. Chiware and Buhle Mbambo-ThataCurrent, ‘Trends in the Collection and Use of Statistics in Academic and Public Libraries in Africa’, in Michael Heaney (ed.), Library Statistics for the Twenty-First Century World (KG Saur, 2009), pp. 71–87.
11. Dennis Ocholla and Theo BothmaTrends, ‘Challenges and Opportunities for LIS Education and Training in Eastern and Southern Africa’, New Library World, 2007, 108, 1, 55–78.
12. Innocent Awasom, ‘Digital Libraries in the Central African Sub-region: A Case Study of Cameroon’, The International Information & Library Review, 2003, 35, 149–55.
13. Margaret Adeogun, ‘Dynamic Library Leadership for Sub-Saharan Africa: Investing in What Works’, African Research & Documentation, 2013, 121, 55–65.
14. Sterling Joseph Coleman, Jr., ‘The British Council and UNESCO in Ethiopia: A Comparison of Linear and Cyclical Patterns of Librarianship Development’, Library History, 2005, 21, 121–30.
15. Peter Limb, ‘The Digitization of Africa’, Africa Today, 2005, 52, 2, 3–19.
16. Sylvia Nyana, ‘Creating A Library System That Serves the Needs of Rural Communities in Africa South of the Sahara’, Journal of Pan African Studies, 2009, 3, 1, 9–22.
17. Marcel Lajeunesse and Henri Sene, ‘Legislation for Library and Information Services in French-Speaking Africa Revisited’, International Information & Library Review, 2004, 36, 367–80.
18. J. M. Ng’Ang’a, ‘Libraries and Librarianship in Kenya: A Background Paper’, International Library Review, 1982, 14, 303–15.
19. Deirdre Ryan, ‘Aluka: Digitization from Maputo to Timbuktu’, OCLC Systems & Services: International Digital Library Perspectives, 2010, 26, 1, 29–38.
20. Heather Lea Moulaison, ‘Exploring Access in the Developing World: People, Libraries and Information Technology in Morocco’, Library Hi Tech, 2008, 26, 4, 586–97.
21. Wilhelm Uutoni, Wilson Yule, and Catherine T. Nengomasha, ‘Electronic Governance and Hybrid Libraries in Namibia’, IFLA Journal, 2011, 37, 2, 118–25.
22. Benki S. H. Womboh, ‘The Predicament of Librarianship: Its Problems and Prospects in Nigeria’, Library Review, 2002, 51, 5, 256–62.
23. Musa Wakhungu Olaka, ‘Library and Information Science Education in Rwanda’, Library Review, 2008, 57, 4, 298–305.
24. John Abdul Kargbo, ‘Adult Education in Sierra Leone: What Role for Libraries’, World Libraries, 2004, 14, 1.
25. Archie L. Dick, ‘The Development of South African Libraries in the 19th and 20th Centuries: Cultural and Political Influences’, in Theo Bothma, Peter Underwood, and Patrick Ngulube (eds.), Libraries for the Future: Progress and Development of South African Libraries, Pretoria, Library and Information Association of South Africa (2007), pp. 13–24.
26. Bernard Dione, ‘The Development of Libraries in Sub-Saharan Francophone West Africa With a Focus on the Senegalese Situation’, in Ravindra N. Sharma (ed.), Libraries in the Early 21st Century: An International Perspective, Vol. 2 (De Gruyter Saur, 2012), pp. 463–71.
27. Cecilia Dahlgren, ‘The Tanzania Library Service: A Review of Recent Literature’, Third World Libraries, 1994, 5, 1, 31–41.
28. Dick Kawooya, ‘Management Prospects and Challenges of Library Associations in Africa: The Case for Uganda Library Association and the Library Information Association of South Africa’, World Libraries, 2001, 11, 1 & 2, 39–55.
29. Nwabuisi T. Imo and Uche H. Igbo, ‘Providing Access to Knowledge in Africa: The Need for Capacity Building in Classification, Indexing, and Abstracting Skills’, Library Philosophy and Practice, July 2011.
30. Tuesday Bwalya, ‘Zambia to Become an Information Society by 2015: A Reality Check’, Chinese Librarianship, 2010, 29, 1–11.
VOLUME II: AMERICAS
Part 1: International Librarianship
31. Tom Glynn, ‘Historical Perspectives on Global Librarianship’, in Martin Alan Kesselman and Irwin Weiniraub (eds.), Global Librarianship (Marcel Dekker, 2004), pp. 1–17.
32. Marshall Keys, ‘Beyond Gutenberg and Gigabits: Librarians and the Emerging Digital Revolution’, in Mary Huston-Somerville and Catherine C. Wilt (eds.), Networks and Resource Sharing in the 21st Century: Re-Engineering and Information Landscape (Haworth Press, 1995), pp. 21–32.
Part 2: Libraries in Americas
33. Norman D. Stevens, ‘The Fully Electronic Academic Library’, College and Research Libraries, 2006, 67, 1, 5–14.
34. Doris Cruger Dale, ‘Melvil Dewey in the year 1890’, in V. Venkatappaiah (ed.), March of Library Science: Kaula Festschrift Papers Presented in Honour of Prof. P. N. Kaula (Vikas Publishing House, 1979), pp. 141–51.
35. Beverly P. Lynch, ‘The Development of the Academic Library in American Higher Education and the Role of the Academic Librarian’, in Terrence F Mech, Gerard B. McCabe (eds.), Leadership and Academic Librarians (Greenwood Press, 1998), pp. 3–21.
36. Ellen Sayed, Justin Robertson, and Glendine Smith, ‘Meeting the Information Needs of Diverse Library Users in Holberton, Antigua’, Journal of Hospital Librarianship, 2007, 7, 3, 49–55.
37. Elsa E. Barber, Nicolas M. Tripaldi, and Silvia L. Pisano, ‘Facts, Approaches and Reflection on Classification in the History of Argentine Librarianship’, Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 2002, 35, 1/2, 70–105.
38. Jeannette Marguerite Kremer, ‘Perspectives for Information Services and Professionals in Brazil’, in F. W. Lancaster (ed.), Libraries and the Future: Essays on the Library in the Twenty First Century (Haworth Press, 1993), pp. 107–30.
39. Mark L. Grover, ‘The Book and the Conquest: Jesuit Libraries in Colonial Brazil’, Libraries & Culture, 1993, 28, 3, 266–83.
40. Rudolph Gjelsness, ‘Inter-American Collaboration in Education For Librarianship: Bogota, Quito, Lima’, Library Quarterly, 1946, 16, 3, 187–201.
41. Keren Dali and Juris Delevko, ‘Smoothing the Transition: Retraining Centers in Canada for Immigrant Librarians from Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union’, Slavic & East European Information Resources, 2007, 8, 1, 77–102.
42. Ownali Mohamedali, ‘Adapting to Changes: DLIS Experiences in the Caribbean’, Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2004, 45, 2, 98–110.
43. Richard Krzys and Gaston Litton, ‘Cultural Antecedents of Library Education in Columbia’, Journal of Library History, 1966, 1, 3, 169–77.
44. Ana C. Torres and Keith Swigger, ‘Barriers to Library Cooperation in Costa Rica’, Library & Information Science Research, 1986, 8, 331–47.
45. William V. Jackson, ‘Improving University Libraries in El Salvador’, in Kathleen de la Pena McCook, Barbara J. Ford, and Kate Lippincott (eds.), Libraries: Global Reach–Local Touch (American Library Association, 1998), pp. 24–30.
46. Carlos Victor Penna, ‘Library Development in Latin America and Caribbean: Achievements and Handicaps’, Library Quarterly, 1954, 24, 2, 169–77.
47. Daniel Mattes, ‘From Amoxcallis to Electronic Libraries and Librarianship in Mexico’, in Kathleen de la Pena McCook, Barbara J. Ford, and Kate Lippincott (eds.), Libraries: Global Reach–Local Touch (American Library Association, 1998), pp. 12–23.
48. Raymond L. Kilgour, ‘The Library School of the National Library of Peru’, Library Quarterly, 1945, 15, 1, 32–48.
49. Claudia Hill, ‘Early Days of the Central Library and the Book Van in Trinidad and Tobago’, Libraries & the Cultural Record, 2007, 42, 2, 180–91.
50. Brett Sutton, ‘The Modeling Function of Long-Range of Planning in Public Libraries’, Library Administration & Management, 1994, 8, 3, 151–60.
51. Fred Heath, ‘Libraries, Information Technology, and the Future’, Resource Sharing & Information Networks, 1995, 10, 1/2, 1–20.
52. Elaina Norlin and Patricia Morris, ‘Historically Black Colleges and University Libraries in the 21st Century: Accomplishments, Challenges and Recommendations’, Journal of Library Administration, 2001, 33, 1/2 and 3/4, 183–97.
53. Brinley Franklin, ‘Managing the Electronic Collection with Cost per Use Data’, IFLA Journal, 2005, 31, 3, 241–8.
54. Ismail Abdullahi and Leif Kajberg, ‘A Study of International Issues in Library and Information Science Education: Survey of LIS Schools in Europe, the USA and Canada’, New Library World, 2004, 105, 1204/1205, 345–56.
55. David S. Lewis, ‘A Strategy for Academic Libraries in the First Quarter of the 21st Century’, College & Research Libraries, 2007, 68, 5, 418–34.
VOLUME III: ASIA
Part 1: International Librarianship
56. Jesse H. Shera, ‘Information Science and Theory of Librarianship’, International Information Communication and Education, 1982, 1, 1, 9–16.
57. A. Neelameghan, ‘Libraries and Information Services in Third World Countries’, in T. W. Lancaster (ed.), Libraries and the Future: Essays on the Library in the Twenty First Century (Haworth Press, 1993), pp. 85–106.
58. Ravindra N. Sharma, ‘Ranganathan’s Impact on International Librarianship Through Information Technology’, Libri, 1992, 42, 3, 258–67.
Part 2: Libraries in Asia
59. Cathie Jilovsky Caval, ‘Online Statistics for Australia, New Zealand, and Asian Academic Libraries’, in Michael Heaney (ed.), Library Statistics for the Twenty-first Century: World Proceedings of the Conference Held in Montreal on 18–19 August 2008 Reporting on the Global Library Statistics Project (K.G. Saur, 2009), pp. 211–20.
60. Muzhgan Nazarova, ‘Libraries in Azerbaijan Reaching Forward’, in Kathleen de la Pena McCook, Barbara J. Ford, and Kate Lippincott (eds.), Libraries: Global Reach–Local Touch (American Library Association, 1998), pp. 82–9.
61. Jody Bales Foote, ‘Libraries and Librarianship in Bangladesh’, Third World Libraries, 1995, 5–2, 59–66.
62. Chang C. Lee, ‘Libraries and Librarianship in the People’s Republic of China’, Journal of Educational Media & Library Sciences, 1994, 31, 2, 119–28.
63. M. M. Aman, ‘The Bibliotheca Alexandrina’, in Frances Laverne Carroll and John Frederick Harvey (eds.), International Librarianship: Cooperation and Collaboration (Scarecrow Press, 2001), pp. 1–10.
64. P. B. Mangla, ‘National Policy on Libraries, Information Systems and Services: An Overview’, in P. B. Mangla, D. R. Kalia, and Neela Jagannathan (eds.), Fifty Years Library and Information Services in India (Shipra, 1997), pp. 1–18.
65. Zougayr Hayati and Rahmatollah Fattahi, ‘Education for Librarianship in Iran Before the 1979 Islamic Revolution: A Historical Review of American Roles and Influences’, Library Review, 2005, 54, 5/6, 316–27.
66. Orynbassar Issakhov, ‘The National Library of the Republic of Kazakhstan: History and Priorities for Development’, Alexandria, 2011, 22, 1, 39–45.
67. Pongsoon Lee and Young Ai Um, ‘A History of Librarianship of the Republic of Korea’, Libraries and Librarianship in Korea (Greenwood Press, 1994), pp. 1–14.
68. Katni K. Kibat and Indahsah Haji Sidek, ‘From Idea to Reality: Discovering Opportunities for Computerization in Malaysian Libraries and Information Centres’, in Anthony Olden and Michael Wise (eds.), Information and Libraries in the Developing World (Library Association Publishing, 1993), pp. 18–32.
69. Brenda Chawner and Gillian Oliver, ‘A Survey of New Zealand Academic Reference Librarians: Current and Future Skills and Competencies’, Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 2013, 44, 1, 29–39.
70. Anis Khurshid, ‘Library Resources in Pakistan: Progress, Problems, and Achievements’, Third World Libraries, 1990, 1, 1, 10–21.
71. Vicente S. Hernandez, ‘Trends in Philippine Library History’, Libraries & Culture, 2001, 36, 2, 329–44.
72. Brendan Luyt, ‘Colonialism, Ethnicity, and Geo-politics in the Development of the Singapore National Library’, Libraries & the Cultural Record, 2009, 44, 4, 418–33.
73. Pradeepa Wijetunge, ‘Developing a Knowledge Society Through Teacher Librarians: A Conceptual Model for Sri Lanka’, International Association of School Librarianship: Selected Papers from the Annual Conference (2002), pp. 251–64.
74. Charuvarn Sindusopon, ‘Status of Thai Librarians in Society: An Observation’, Libraries and Librarianship in Thailand: From Stone Inscription to Microchips (IFLA National Organizing Committee, 1999), pp. 84–92.
75. Aysel Yontar and Mesut Yalvac, ‘Problems of Library and Information Science Research in Turkey: A Content Analysis of Journal Articles, 1952–1994’, IFLA Journal, 2000, 26, 1, 39–51.
76. John V. Richardson, Jr., ‘The Library and Information Economy in Turkminstan’, IFLA Journal, 2013, 39, 3, 243-250.
77. Behdja Mekki Boumarafi, ‘Libraries and Information Services in the United Arab Emirates (UAE): An Overview’, International Information & Library Review, 1996, 28, 331–43.
78. Marat Rahmatullaev and Akram Khabibullaev, ‘Libraries in Uzbekistan: Past, Present, and Future’, in Ravindra N. Sharma (ed.), Libraries in the Early 21st Century, Vol. 2 (De Gruyter Saur, 2012), pp. 375–86.
79. Binh P. Le, ‘The Digital Age and Information Poor Societies: The Case of Vietnam’, in R. N. Sharma (ed.), The Impact of Technology on Asian, African, and Middle Eastern Library Collections (Scarecrow Press, 2006), pp. 62–75.
80. Alex Byrne, ‘Digital Libraries: Barriers or Gateways to Scholarly Information’, The Electronic Library, 2003, 21, 5, 414–21.
81. Lynn Silipigni Connaway and Ronald R. Powell, ‘Research and Librarianship’, Basic Research Methods for Librarians, 5th edn. (Libraries Unlimited, 2010), pp. 1–17.
VOLUME IV: EUROPE
Part 1: International Librarianship
82. Joachim Wielder, ‘IFLA’s First Fifty Years: A Reprise’, IFLA Journal, 2008, 28, 3, 107–17.
83. Donald G. Davis, Jr., ‘With Malice Toward None: IFLA and the Cold War’, IFLA Journal, 2000, 26, 1, 13–20.
84. David Raitt, ‘The Library of the Future’, in F. W. Lancaster (ed.), Libraries and the Future: Essays on the Library in the Twenty-First Century (Haworth Press, 1993), pp. 61–72.
Part 2: Libraries in Europe
85. Peter Hernon and Niels Ole Pors, ‘Library Leadership in Europe’, in Peter Hernon and Niels Ole Pors (eds.), Library Leadership in the United States and Europe: A Comparative Study of Academic and Public Libraries (Libraries Unlimited, 2013), pp. 53–68.
86. Alex Tomberg, ‘European Information Networks’, in Martha E. Williams (ed.), Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (Knowledge Industry Publications, 1977), pp. 219–46.
87. Cesare Concordia, Stefan Gradmann, and Sjoerd Siebinga, ‘Not Just Another Portal, Not Just Another Digital Library: A Portrait of Europeana as an Application Program Interface’, IFLA Journal, 2010, 36, 1, 61–9.
88. C. H. Talbot, ‘The Universities and the Mediaeval Library’, in Francis Wormald and C. E. Wright (eds.), The English Library Before 1700 (Athlone Press, 1958), pp. 66–84.
89. Selma Alpay Aslan, ‘Use of Technology in Libraries in the European Union Towards 2020’, in Ravindra N. Sharma (ed.), Libraries in the Early 21st Century, Vol. 2 (De Gruyter Saur, 2012), pp. 77–98.
90. Sirje Virkus, ‘Collaboration in LIS Education in Europe: Challenges and Opportunities’, in Proceedings of the World Library and Information Congress: 73rd IFLA General Conference and Council, Libraries for the Future Progress, Development and Partnerships (Durban, South Africa, 2007), pp. 19–23.
91. Etleva Domi, ‘The National Library of Albania: Tradition and Modern Vision’, Alexandria, 2011, 21, 3, 15–24.
92. Norma J. Hervey, ‘Genesis of Library in the Czech Republic from Closet to the Book Stacks’, in Kathleen de la Pena McCook, Barbara J. Ford, and Kate Lippincott (eds.), Libraries: Global Reach–Local Touch (American Library Association, 1998), pp. 124–38.
93. Henk Voorbij, ‘Ten Years of Experience with Benchmarking in Dutch Academic Libraries’, in Michael Heaney (ed.), Library Statistics for the Twenty-First Century: World Proceedings of the Conference Held in Montreal on 18–19 August 2008 (K. G. Saur, 2009), pp. 245–51.
94. Erie A. Johnson and Aira Lepik, ‘Estonia: The Little Country That Could’, in Kathleen de la Pena McCook, Barbara J. Ford, and Kate Lippincott (eds.), Libraries: Global Reach–Local Touch (American Library Association, 1998), pp. 104–9.
95. Anne-Marie Bertrand, ‘Libraries in France: From One Century to the Next One’, in Ravindra N. Sharma (ed.), Libraries in the Early 21st Century: An International Perspective, Vol. 1 (De Gruyter Saur, 2012), pp. 161–72.
96. Hans Albrecht Koch, ‘Library Research in the Federal Republic of Germany’, Library & Information Science Research, 1984, 6, 133–53.
97. G. Pomassl, ‘Bibliographic Organization and Coordination in GDR’, in V. Venkatappah (ed.), March of Library Science: Kaula Festschrift Papers Presented in Honour of Prof. P. N. Kaula (Vikas Publishing House, 1979), pp. 331–8.
98. T. Keith Dix, ‘Public Libraries in Ancient Rome: Ideology and Reality’, Libraries & Culture, 1994, 29, 3, 282–96.
99. Robert Vaagan and Sigrid Holm, ‘Professional Values in Norwegian Librarianship’, New Library World, 2004, 105, 5/6, 213–17.
100. Marcin Drzewiecki and Elzbieta Barbara Zybert, ‘Training for Librarianship of Academic Level in Poland’, Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 1995, 36, 1, 66–71.
101. Mary Stuart, ‘Creating Culture: The Rossica Collection of the Imperial Public Library and the Construction of National Identity’, Libraries & Culture, 1995, 30, 1, 1–25.
102. Barbara Thomas, ‘Public Libraries in Developed Countries: A Success Story from Scandinavia’, in Martin Alan Kesselman and Irwin Weintraub (eds.), Global Librarianship (Marcell Dekker, 2004), pp. 67–78.
103. Svetislav Djuric, ‘The Position of Books and Librarianship in the Socialist Republic of Serbia’, in V. Venkatappaiah (ed.), March of Library Science: Kaula Festschrift Papers Presented in Honour of Prof. P. N. Kaula (Vikas Publishing House, 1979), pp. 88–100.
104. Olena Bashun, ‘Acquisitions Problems in Ukrainian Libraries and New Electronic Solutions’, Slavic & East European Information Resources, 2007, 8, 2/3, 55–69.
105. K. C. Harrison, ‘Ranganathan and British Librarianship’, in Ravindra Nath Sharma (ed.), S. R. Ranganathan and the West (Sterling Publishers Private Limited, 1992), pp. 17–31.
106. Krassimira Anguelova, Maria Przastek-Samokowa, and Malgorzata Kisilowska, ‘A Slavonic Librarianship Phenomenon? The Polish Bulgarian Cooperation Case Study’, World Library and Information Congress: 72nd IFLA General Conference and Council Proceedings, 20–4 August, 2006, Seoul Korea, pp. 1–14.
107. J. A. Large, ‘Information Technology: Its Impact on Information Users’, in T. S. Rajagopalan (ed.), Ranganthan’s Philosophy: Assessment, Impact, and Relevance: Proceedings of the International Conference (Vikas Publishing House, 1986), pp. 640–8.
108. Peter Brophy and Geoff Butters, ‘Creating A Research Agenda for Local Libraries, Archives, and Museums Across Europe’, New Review of Information Networking, 2007, 13, 1, 3–21.
109. Maurice B. Line, ‘National Libraries’, in Graham Mackenzie, Ray Prytherch (eds.), Librarianship and Information Work Worldwide (Bowker Saur, 1993), pp. 51–70.
110. Lauren H. Seiler and Thomas T. Surprenant, ‘The Virtual Information Center: Scholars and Information in the Twenty-First Century’, in F. W. Lancaster (ed.), Libraries and the Future: Essays on the Library in the Twenty-First Century (Haworth Press, 1993), pp. 157–80.
