LIS education in the digital age for an African agenda
Raju, Jaya
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Title
LIS education in the digital age for an African agenda
Author(s)
Raju, Jaya
Issue Date
2015
Keyword(s)
LIS education in Africa
Geographic Coverage
Africa
Abstract
To provide an exposé of digital-age library and information science (LIS) education for an African agenda, this paper adopts an emergent qualitative research design by drawing on the literature on LIS education in Africa. It also draws on data gleaned from a survey of
heads of schools of LIS in South Africa, and from content analyses
of LIS school websites in South Africa and selected parts of the continent. The paper locates its narrative within Abbott’s chaos of
disciplines theory and concludes that the LIS discipline’s “interstitial
nature,” its “fractal distinctions in time,” and the resulting chaos of
disciplines should not be seen as a crisis for LIS education in Africa
and globally, but as an opportunity for a paradigm shift to broaden
the LIS disciplinary domain and to stake an intellectual claim on
this extended domain—and so contribute to the growth and development of LIS services in Africa within the context of an African
development agenda.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Series/Report Name or Number
Library trends 64 (1). Summer 2015
ISSN
0024-2594
Type of Resource
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2015.0038
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