Trends and Issues in LIS Education in Asia

Miwa, Makiko

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“…Studies exploring the career development of newly emerging professions (Rainey, 2009), like librarians, are seldom the preference of researchers. Even within the existing body of Library and Information Science (LIS) literature, most studies conducted by other researchers in the past focused mainly on the technical aspects of librarianship, such as records management, cataloging and other issues related to reader services, instead of investigating the career and curriculum development of the LIS profession – for example Miwa (2006). This trend means that people outside the LIS profession (and even among ourselves) know little about recent trends and career development of a practicing librarian as well as how the Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) students perceive their career development and why they join an MLIS program, referred to as learning motivation (Lo et al, 2015), in particular.…”

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Intrinsic vs. extrinsic motivations of Master of Library and Information Science students: A cross-cultural comparative study

Chiu

et al. 2016

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

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This study examined the career and learning motivation of students studying a Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) degree programs at universities located in four different countries, namely the University of Hong Kong, National Taiwan Normal University, Peking University, and the University of Copenhagen. The MLIS students from these four universities were invited to take part in a self-completion online questionnaire survey, and 200 responses were collected in total. We discovered that their prior working experience in the library had an impact on their decision to pursue the MLIS program. We also categorized the career and learning motivation factors of MLIS learners into intrinsic and extrinsic factors, and discovered that the participants were motivated by both intrinsic and extrinsic factors to pursue their graduate studies in the Library and Information Science (LIS) field. We found that intrinsic factors influenced the students of University of Copenhagen significantly more than the other student groups, and this could be explained by Hofstede’s cultural dimensions. Our findings can assist with the formulation of development strategies for MLIS programs through a review of the LIS curriculum and help MLIS programs in different countries attract more people to pursue a career in LIS.

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Intrinsic vs. extrinsic motivations of Master of Library and Information Science students: A cross-cultural comparative study

Chiu

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“…There are numerous analyses of university LIS education, covering practically all parts of the world, including Europe (Borrego, 2015), Great Britain (Lowe, 2006;Marcella;Oppenheim, 2020), the United States (Dalrymple, 1997), Canada (Curry, 2000), Australia (Harvey, 2011;Weatherburn;Harvey, 2016), Asia (Miwa, 2006;Kaur, 2015), India (Kumar;Sharma, 2010;Kaur, 2015), and Africa and South Africa (Ocholla;Bothma, 2007), among others, who all adopt a largely descriptive approach. The word "crisis" is present in many of these analyses (Dillon;Norris, 2005), leading to reflection on challenges and opportunities in LIS education (Cronin, 2012).…”

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Library and Information science in Spain: an assessment of 40 years of university studies

Abadal

Ollé

López‐Borrull

2021

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Universities first taught Library and Information science (LIS) studies in Spain in 1982, reaching a zenith at the end of the 1990s. However, from 2000 onwards, student enrolment began to drop and some programmes closed, producing a crisis in the studies on offer, which is yet to end. The evolution of LIS education in Spanish universities over 40 years is analysed and its future is evaluated based on the opinions of academic leaders from Spanish university centres that offer LIS degrees. The article aims to provide a detailed analysis of the opportunities, threats and necessary priorities in the field and a general assessment of its chances of remaining an independent discipline. 23 interviews were carried out with lecturers of the Spanish university system, and a Likert questionnaire was responded by 34 experts. Disappointments are noted: loss of interest in the subject, failure to generate academic and professional visibility, and failure to take advantage of technological change to position the field in the mainstream. Opportunities: orienting the degree course toward new topics, and prioritising postgraduate programmes. Threats: loss of students, failure to convey the value of the discipline to society, and failure to redefine its profile. Priorities: adapting current qualifications more closely to needs, participating in European research projects, and adopting technological change. More than 60% of the respondents agree that Library and Information science will remain an independent discipline in the short and medium term, while 20% disagree, although they do not see this as a problem.

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“…A literature survey toward quality assurance in library and information science (hereafter called LIS) in Asia yielded few results such as writings of , , Miwa (2006), Sajjad ur Rehman (2008); papers of Maesaroh andGenoni (2009) andSulistyo-Basuki (2006) provided little information on that matter. This paper studies the current quality assurance in Indonesia based on the available writings in Bahasa Indonesia (the lingua franca or national language of Indonesia), the available grey literature and interviews.…”

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Quality Assurance in LIS Education

Miwa¹,

Miyahara²

2015

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Trends and Issues in LIS Education in Asia

Cited by 25 publications

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Intrinsic vs. extrinsic motivations of Master of Library and Information Science students: A cross-cultural comparative study

Intrinsic vs. extrinsic motivations of Master of Library and Information Science students: A cross-cultural comparative study

Library and Information science in Spain: an assessment of 40 years of university studies

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