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| Format: | Recurso educativo Open Access |
| Language: | en |
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2011
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| Online Access: | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ955713 |
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- Losing the Quality Battle in Australian Education for Librarianship Harvey, Ross Library Education Foreign Countries Educational Quality Quality Assurance Library Science Professional Identity Intellectual Disciplines Comparative Education Interdisciplinary Approach Change Strategies Educational Change Educational Development Performance Factors The author asserts that something is wrong with university-based education for librarianship in Australia. Librarianship does not have a clear disciplinary identity in universities. The lack of differentiation between the roles of technicians and professionals clouds the issue. For these and other reasons, education for librarianship in Australia is suffering. Comparisons are made with the United States and Canada. Some suggestions for improving the quality of university-based education for librarianship, based on increased cooperation among departments of information studies, are made. [This article has been reprinted from "The Australian Library Journal," volume 50, no. 1, 2001.]