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Vitalising Library and Information Science Education: A Challenge in the Digital Information Environment

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In the context of the emerging information society, it has become very important to the LIS schools that information professionals are properly trained, enabling them to adapt to the ever changing information environment. Areas to be vitalized are infrastructure, manpower, curriculum, mechanisms, and evaluation.

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Padmini, K. (2002). Vitalising Library and Information Science Education: A Challenge in the Digital Information Environment. In: Lim, E.P., et al. Digital Libraries: People, Knowledge, and Technology. ICADL 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2555. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36227-4_68

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