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Some issues on LIS Education and collaboration in Latin America
ALISE Boston-2005
Sergio Chaparro-Univazo
Assistant Professor
GSLIS
SIMMONS COLLEGE
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Why collaboration?
Interest in enhancing the quality of the LIS classroom
Interest in enhancing the learning process of the LIS student and professional
Increasing interest in professional development
Recognition of the negative consequences of isolation
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Why cooperating with Latin American Library Schools?
Spanish speaking presence in modern USA library world
Strong history of academic/teaching/sponsored programs and relations in several other fields
American Academic libraries’ foreign language materials and collections
Increasing role of information in R&D
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Why cooperating with Latin American Library Schools?
LIS Graduate and post graduate education opportunities in USA not available in Latin America (The ticket factor)
LIS education in USA offers a wide range of professional development and supplemental training
Cost
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Why cooperating with Latin American Library Schools?
Enhancement of the interaction between academic worlds
Testing of LIS teaching methods Testing and promoting new models of Library
education scholarship and scientific cooperation (Licea & Arenas 2000)
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Why cooperating with Latin American Library Schools?
Archives and preservation (Digitization) Management of information (Efficiency and
planning) IT (research and development) Information policy (Expanding the role of LIS) Human Information Behavior (Library
instruction)
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Mutual Collaboration I
Online education offers a wide array of possibilities for enhancing the collaboration process.
Online education requires IT infrastructure not available, or limited, in some nations.
Library education in Latin America needs to address and recognize online education as a real possibility for professional development.
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Mutual collaboration II
Spanish and/or Portuguese and English proficiency is a must. English skills required prior to the academic experience.
Testing needs to be done, and pilot experiences with online classrooms are necessary.
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Mutual collaboration III
Equity of access, cost, copyright, changing roles of the departmental staff, pressures on educational structures (Tyler 2000)
Limitations of the educational tool need to be explicitly stated on syllabi.
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Where should we start? I
Agencies and international organizations that promote cooperation
The Usual Suspects (e.g. IFLA/ALISE/) The Unusual Suspects (e.g. OAS, Academic
Networks, College-College) One example: The Educational Portal of the
Americas <http://www.educoas.org>
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Where should we start? II
Dialogue College to College (e.g. Austin-TEC) Promotion and marketing Reaching out to prospective students Browsing the field of LIS academic research
and professional development (continuing education ) (Tannuri de Oliveira, 2004)
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Why should we be careful?
Dancing with Elephants (Hazen, 2000) What is good for one school might not be for
another one (Johnson et al., 2001) The culture or lack of culture of syllabi The culture of LIS education in Latin America
(Tanurri de Oliveira, 2004) Lack of outcome measures
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Why should we be careful?
Some classes may not “appeal” to students What should students do after turning off the
computer? Support and resources for LIS student
research (Where is the library collection?) Success depends on constant adequate
planning and evaluation (Feria & Machuca, 2004)
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Collaboration requires planning
Before After
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Let’s remember:
Library education is what is taught (Gorman, 2004)
What is taught depends on multiple factors. Let’s consider them thoroughly.
Sometimes it is more important to teach others to teach, let’s also plan for that.
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Some Bibliography
Da Silva (2002). A formacao profissional no seculo XXI: desafios e dilemas. Ciencia da Informacao, 31 (3), 77-82.
Feria, L.B., & Machuca, P. (2004). The digital library of Iberoamerica and the Caribbean: humanizing technological resources. International Information and Library Review, 36, 177-183.
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(cont.)
Gorman, M. (2004). What ails library education? Journal of Academic Librarianship, 30 (2), 99-101.
Hallmark, J., & Gonzalez, M. (2002). Latin-American initiatives in library science education: Three models. The Electronic Library, 20 (5), 390-394.
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(cont.)
Hitch, L. (2004) Aren’t we judging virtual universities by outdated standards? Journal of Academic Librarianship, 26 (1), 21-26.
Howze, P. C. & Moore, D. M. (2003). Measuring international students’ understanding of concepts related to the use of library based technology. Research Strategies, 19, 57-74.
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(cont.)
Johnson, I., Fuertes, A., & Herrera, L. (2001). Management education in Latin America and the Caribbean. Education for Information, 19, 3-18.
Licea, J., & Arenas, M. (2000). La formacion de comunidades cientificas en bibliotecologia y ciencia de la informacion. Anales de Documentacion, 3, 81-91.
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(cont.)
Liu, Z. , & Yang, Z. Y. (2004). Factors influencing distance-education graduate students’ use of information sources: A user study. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 30 (1), 24-35.
Tannuri, E.F., & Chaves, J.A. (2004). Library professionals education in the Mercosur countries. Education for Information, 22, 31-39.
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(cont.)
Tyler, A. (2001). A survey of distance learning library and information science course delivered via the Internet. Education for Information, 19, 47-59.