Libraries in the early twenty-first century: an international perspective (2 volumes)

摘要

Although our profession has long been an international one in many respects, it may be posited that most Australasian library and information workers have little knowledge of trends and operations in other countries - certainly not those outside the anglophone world. Yet since the 1980s, technology has bound us together as never before. Sharma here presents 50 well-researched contributions by 71 authors, whose remit was 'to write chapters on the history and development of libraries in their countries with an emphasis on the development during the last 30 years'. The result is an invaluable, up-to-date source which is useful not only for students of comparative and international librarianship but also for all practitioners wishing to drag themselves into the twenty-first century.