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Librarians around the world have designed and implemented creative ways to serve the information needs of their patrons - wherever they may be. These are their stories.
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2013
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The Global Librarian
2013, Metropolitan New York Library Council, ACRL/NY, ACRL/NY & METRO
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Table of Contents
Part 1. From Theory to Practice: Global Librarians in Action
Chapter 1. Takin’ It to the Streets: myMETRO Researchers Bring Library Science Skills, Expertise to NYC Communities
Chapter 2. Cape Crusade: Building the Steve Biko Library and Archive in the Eastern Cape
Chapter 3. Promoting Information Literacy through Engagement with Wikipedia
Chapter 4. Disseminating Moving Image Websites with a Web 2.0 Centralized Hub
Chapter 5. International Partnerships – Cases and Working Experience
Chapter 6. A “Global” Book Exchange: Creating Partnerships across the Sea
Chapter 7. Implementing the Learning Commons in a Middle Eastern University Library: The Case of Zayed University
Chapter 8. Transcending Ethnic, Racial and Political Conflict to Achieve Understanding between the Greek and Turkish Cypriot Library Communities
Part 2. When Global Becomes Local: Serving Diverse Populations
Chapter 9. Escucha Mi Voz: Engaging Local People in Global Communities
Chapter 10. Non Western Students in Western Universities: Bridging the Plagiarism divide
Chapter 11. Supporting NYU’s Worldwide Users: Academic Technology Services for the Global Network University
Part 3. Around the Globe: Librarians on the International Scene
Chapter 12. Cultures of Access: Differences in Rhetoric around Open Access Repositories in Africa, Europe,United States and their Implications for the Open Access Movement
Chapter 13. Critical Information Literacy and the Technology of Control: The Case of Armenia
Chapter 14. A College Library in African Culture: a Case Study of Global Librarianship in Kampala, Uganda
Part 4. Shifting Roles: Librarianship in a Global Economy
Chapter 15. The Library Has Left the Building: Mobile Librarianship’s New 21st Century Role
Chapter 16. Local Connections to Global Collections: The Power of Interlibrary Loan Services
Chapter 17. Beyond Embedded: Blended Roles for Information Professionals in the 21st Century Knowledge Economy
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