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Volume 8, Issue 1
1 January 1999
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Case Report| January 01 1999

The changing face of library and information science education in China in the 1990s

Jinhong Tang
Department of Information Resources Management, Nankai University, Tianjin, China
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2054-5541
Print ISSN: 1017-6748
© MCB UP Limited
1999
Asian Libraries (1999) 8 (1): 17–22.
https://doi.org/10.1108/10176749910257146

This article investigates the renaming of departments of library and information science (LIS) in China in the 1990s. It analyses the technological, economic, social and government factors which affect education for LIS in contemporary China. Problems facing education for LIS in China are considered and suggestions made.

Keywords: China, Education, Information management, Library and information science
© MCB UP Limited
1999
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