How International is Your LIS/IS Program in the Global Higher Education Era?

Internationalization is a critical issue in LIS/IS education and the LIS/IS profession. This panel assembles educators from various continents to discover their experiences and to address the following issues: International students should comprise what percentage of a student body in order to adequately represent the spectrum of disciplines that are critical to contemporary LIS/IS schools? International faculty members should comprise what percentage of a faculty in order to adequately represent the spectrum of disciplines that are critical to contemporary LIS/IS schools? How international must a curriculum be in order to adequately prepare graduates for the challenges of the rapidly changing information environment of the future? How do our panelists build beneficial partnerships with international professional stakeholders? How do our panelists ensure the quality of LIS education from an international perspective

Erasmus+ EINFOSE project: aims and results

The article presents objectives, expected and achieved results of the EINFOSE project (European information science education: encouraging mobility and learning outcomes harmonization) funded under the Erasmus+ program. The focus is on the entire life cycle of the project: from the idea to its elaboration, to the 'translation' in the proposal based on the call (Erasmus+ call) up to the implementation of the project and its results. The experience of the EINFOSE project shows that one of the main objectives of the Erasmus + program is to face the challenges offered by an evolving educational environment, taking advantage of international collaboration and the positive effects that can derive from a wide dissemination of the results achieved.L’articolo presenta gli obiettivi, i risultati attesi e quelli raggiunti del progetto EINFOSE (European Information Science Education: Encouraging Mobility and Learning Outcomes Harmonization), finanziato nell’ambito del programma Erasmus+. L’attenzione si concentra sull’intero ciclo di vita del progetto: dall’idea alla sua elaborazione, alla ‘traduzione’ nella proposta sulla base del bando (Erasmus+ call) fino all’implementazione del progetto e ai suoi risultati. L’esperienza del progetto EINFOSE mostra come tra gli obiettivi principali del programma Erasmus+ ci sia quello di affrontare le sfide offerte da un ambiente educativo in evoluzione, traendo vantaggio dalla collaborazione internazionale e dalle ricadute positive che possono derivare da un’ampia diffusione dei risultati conseguiti

The quest for umbrella terms in information science. Tracking the origins of informatology and informatics

International audienceIntroduction. We report in this paper on our quest to track the ownership and different conceptions of two umbrella terms, informatology and informatics suggested as more adequate names for the field of Library and Information Science between the 1960s-1980s. Method. Our method consisted in gathering bibliographic materials of written publications which pointed to the earliest occurrences of these terms and reading them in order to identify the priority claims about the paternity of these two terms. Analysis. We carried out content analysis of the written documents we found which helped inform our understanding of how these two terms were perceived. Our method of analysis is thus hermeneutics, i.e. based on our personal perception of what the authors had written. Our quest took us all over Europe and to the United States. Results. Our main findings are that despite efforts to promote the two umbrella terms, they failed in supplanting information science or library and information science as the preferred name for the discipline. A possible reason may be that scientific fields are in horizontal rather than hierarchical relation with one another and umbrella terms suggest some sort of hierarchy. Also, 'library economy/science' and 'documentation' had become unfashionable as computer technology was being developed and the information community was seeking for new methods and tools capable of handling machine readable information. Conclusions. Our quest also brought home the difficulty of establishing the ownership of concepts and ideas with an absolute degree of certainty

The quest for umbrella terms in information science. Tracking the origins of informatology and informatics

International audienceIntroduction. We report in this paper on our quest to track the ownership and different conceptions of two umbrella terms, informatology and informatics suggested as more adequate names for the field of Library and Information Science between the 1960s-1980s. Method. Our method consisted in gathering bibliographic materials of written publications which pointed to the earliest occurrences of these terms and reading them in order to identify the priority claims about the paternity of these two terms. Analysis. We carried out content analysis of the written documents we found which helped inform our understanding of how these two terms were perceived. Our method of analysis is thus hermeneutics, i.e. based on our personal perception of what the authors had written. Our quest took us all over Europe and to the United States. Results. Our main findings are that despite efforts to promote the two umbrella terms, they failed in supplanting information science or library and information science as the preferred name for the discipline. A possible reason may be that scientific fields are in horizontal rather than hierarchical relation with one another and umbrella terms suggest some sort of hierarchy. Also, 'library economy/science' and 'documentation' had become unfashionable as computer technology was being developed and the information community was seeking for new methods and tools capable of handling machine readable information. Conclusions. Our quest also brought home the difficulty of establishing the ownership of concepts and ideas with an absolute degree of certainty

The quest for umbrella terms in information science. Tracking the origins of informatology and informatics

International audienceIntroduction. We report in this paper on our quest to track the ownership and different conceptions of two umbrella terms, informatology and informatics suggested as more adequate names for the field of Library and Information Science between the 1960s-1980s. Method. Our method consisted in gathering bibliographic materials of written publications which pointed to the earliest occurrences of these terms and reading them in order to identify the priority claims about the paternity of these two terms. Analysis. We carried out content analysis of the written documents we found which helped inform our understanding of how these two terms were perceived. Our method of analysis is thus hermeneutics, i.e. based on our personal perception of what the authors had written. Our quest took us all over Europe and to the United States. Results. Our main findings are that despite efforts to promote the two umbrella terms, they failed in supplanting information science or library and information science as the preferred name for the discipline. A possible reason may be that scientific fields are in horizontal rather than hierarchical relation with one another and umbrella terms suggest some sort of hierarchy. Also, 'library economy/science' and 'documentation' had become unfashionable as computer technology was being developed and the information community was seeking for new methods and tools capable of handling machine readable information. Conclusions. Our quest also brought home the difficulty of establishing the ownership of concepts and ideas with an absolute degree of certainty

The quest for umbrella terms in information science. Tracking the origins of and informatics

Introduction. We report in this paper on our quest to track the ownership and different conceptions of two umbrella terms, informatology and informatics suggested as more adequate names for the field of library and information science between the 1960s-1980s. Method. Our method consisted in gathering bibliographic materials of written publications which pointed to the earliest occurrences of these terms and reading them in order to identify the priority claims about the paternity of these two terms. Analysis. We carried out content analysis of the written documents we found which helped inform our understanding of how these two terms were perceived. Our method of analysis is thus hermeneutics, i.e. based on our personal perception of what the authors had written. Our quest took us all over Europe and to the United States. Results. Our main findings are that despite efforts to promote the two umbrella terms, they failed in supplanting information science or library and information science as the preferred name for the discipline. A possible reason may be that scientific fields are in horizontal rather than hierarchical relation with one another and umbrella terms suggest some sort of hierarchy. Also, 'library economy/science' and 'documentation' had become unfashionable as computer technology was being developed and the information community was seeking for new methods and tools capable of handling machine readable information. Conclusions. Our quest also brought home the difficulty of establishing the ownership of concepts and ideas with an absolute degree of certainty

Information Science in Europe: current perspectives

This panel aims to discuss and critique the position of Information Science (IS) in European countries. This will be achieved through panel presentations and through critical discussion of key questions amongst the participants in the session. The introduction to the panel will identify issues that emerge from studies of IS in European countries, and in particular points that emerged from two previous ASIS&T annual meeting panel sessions. Presentations on the current situation of IS in the United Kingdom, Portugal, and countries from the former Yugoslavia will be given and briefly compared. The focus will then move to session participants, whose views on the state of IS in their own country will be solicited in a structured manner. The academic value will be in providing insight into current IS development and challenges in countries with varying histories of IS engagement. The practical value will be in the exchange of views through participation and the ideas that can be generated for future activities of the ASIS&T European Chapter