The International Conference on Knowledge Organisation in Academic Libraries (I-KOAL), formerly the National Conference on Knowledge Organisation in Academic Libraries (KOAL), is organized by the Library Professionals Association (LPA), India. It aims (1) to create awareness and provide a platform for the exchange and sharing knowledge and skills among LIS professionals and academicians in Knowledge
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Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) Workshop*
- Co-located: Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Conference (DC), Oct 3-14
Educating Librarians as Information and Knowledge Managers
Abstract: The immense stock of information and knowledge available in the twenty-first century imposed the need for designing a new kind of profession or modifying existing ones, especially the librarian profession, and educate professionals in collecting and disseminating the aforementioned. If the creation of new knowledge is to be understood in terms of Ikujiro
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Conference (DC)*
- Co-located: Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) Workshop, Oct 6-7
Assessing and Analysing Knowledge Organization Courses in LIS Education
Abstract: This research explores trends in knowledge organization (KO) in library and information science (LIS) curricula in 68 selected schools located in Southeast Asia, Europe, and North America. The research quantitatively analyzed KO course descriptions in order to identify the modules covered in these LIS programs’ curricula. Information was gathered from the course descriptions