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Preparing Students for the International Information Society: Studying the Global Context in LIS

Preparing Students for the International Information Society: Studying the Global Context in LIS. Sponsored by the Curriculum SIG Linda Lillard Emporia State University Anita Coleman University of Arizona Co-Conveners. Globalization. Mirriam-Webster defines globalization:

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Preparing Students for the International Information Society: Studying the Global Context in LIS

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  1. Preparing Students for the International Information Society: Studying the Global Context in LIS Sponsored by the Curriculum SIG Linda Lillard Emporia State University Anita Coleman University of Arizona Co-Conveners

  2. Globalization • Mirriam-Webster defines globalization: • to make worldwide in scope or application. • Another definition of globalization might be the integration of economies and societies. • Globalization is also seen in the emerging world information order.

  3. Globalization • What exactly is globalization in the context of LIS?

  4. World’s Fair Metaphor • Historian Robert Rydell at LITA • Globalization is a new word • Just “an old wine in a new bottle” • “Primary sites for learning about the world not just places to have fun”

  5. World’s Fairs • Illustrated encyclopedias of civilization

  6. Illustrated Encyclopedias of Civilization • Pathbreaking technologies • Futuristic architecture, landscaping and transportation • Exotic pleasures • Belly dancing • Ferris wheel Rydell (2000)

  7. College Courses and Fairs • 100 million Americans attended between 1876 and 1916 • Including globalization in university curriculum approached in different way • Attaching to world’s fairs • College courses associated with world’s fairs

  8. Global Courses in LIS • Natural progression – proliferation of global context courses in LIS curriculum since it has been determined that Melvil Dewey got the idea for his decimal classification system from the scheme used to arrange the exhibitions at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia.

  9. DDC • Everything at the Centennial was classified by department: • Mining and Metallurgy • Manufactures • Education and Science • Art • Machinery • Agriculture, and Horticulture) • Then subclassified, and further subclassified in a logical scheme that later became a model for the Dewey Decimal System.

  10. Old Wine, New Bottle? • So, what exactly is globalization in the context of LIS? • Is there a global information infrastructure that LIS can focus on for study and research? • What are the challenges and outcomes of internationalLIS field experiences?

  11. Speakers • Tula Giannini Title: Field Studies in Library and Information Science Pratt Institute • John Agada and Brenda Hough • Title: From Comparative Librarianship to International Information Policy studies: Repositioning the LIS Curriculum for the Global Information Economy Emporia State University • Kendra Albright and Douglas Raber Title: Global Information Courses Across the Curriculum University of Tennessee

  12. References • Rydell, R.W., Findling, J.E., & Pelle, K.D. (2000). Fair America: World’s Fairs in the United States. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press. • Mathe, B. (1998). Kaledoscopic classifications: Redefining information in a world cultural context. Proceedings of the 64th IFLA General Conference, August 16-21, 1998, Amsterdam. • Special Collections Department, University of Delaware Library. Progress made visible: The Centennial Exposition, Philadelphia, 1876. (Online, retrieved January 5, 2005). • Rydell, R.W. (2004) Globalization and its discontents: A preview from 1904. Keynote Address at the LITA National Forum 2005, St. Louis, MO. • 100 Years of globalization in St. Louis. (2004, November). Special News Report, American Libraries, 35 (10), 24-25.

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