Quality Assurance in LIS Education

The purpose of this book is to review and examine the quality assurance systems of LIS (Library and Information Science) education in specific countries and regions. In the recent progress of globalization, the number of LIS professionals who wish to work overseas has been increasing. To be qualified as a professional in the foreign country as well as local, the global standard of quality assurance system is an urgent need for the local LIS degree and/or certification holder. As a reflection of this trend, the great interest in quality assurance system is growing in the study of higher education However, we can find only few scholars discussed this topic at international conferences and contributed articles to international journal in the LIS study. Although there are some books on comparative LIS education published recently as stated below, no book on LIS quality assurance system has been published until now. This is the first collective work on LIS quality assurance system which covers various countries and all authors of the articles are top-level LIS scholars in each country. It is also highly anticipated that those LIS faculties and students use this book as a textbook in graduate LIS programs.