The Internationalization of the Academic Library

• Main Author: Lombard, Emmett
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 2021; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge Studies in Library and Information Science
• Subjects: Academic Librarianship; Academic libraries; Academic libraries > Administration; Academic libraries > Aims and objectives; Academic Library Literature; Academic Library’s Role; Academic Support Personnel; Administration; College’s Academic Library; Domestic Students; Education; Education and globalization; Education, Higher; Education, Higher > Aims and objectives; Educational administration and organization; Geert Hofstede Cultural Dimensions; Global Learning Experience; Higher; Higher Education; Higher Education Management; Higher education, tertiary education; Information Fluency; Information Literacy; Information Literacy Conceptualization; International & Comparative Education; International education; International Student Preferences; International Student Workers; International Students; Librarianship; Libraries and colleges; Library & Information Science; Library and information sciences / Museology; Library Personnel; Library Stakeholders; Measure Information Literacy; National Higher Education Sectors; Nonfiction; Philosophy and theory of education; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Society and Social Sciences; Student Recruitment Strategies; Vice Versa; National Higher Education Sectors; Student Recruitment Strategies; Measure Information Literacy; Global Learning Experience; Domestic Students; College's Academic Library; Partial Immersion; Vice Versa; internationalization challenges; stakeholder; The Internationalization of the Academic Library; Literature Review; Academic Support Personnel; leadership; Information Fluency; international faculty; Patriotic Environments; Academic Library Literature; Information Literacy Conceptualization; domestic student; international student library; Academic Library's Role; Library Personnel; International Students; Geert Hofstede Cultural Dimensions; plagiarism; Administrative Dichotomy; information literacy; Library's Role; internationalization mission; Study Abroad Program; International Student Preferences; collaboration; culture; international student; International Student Workers; faculty accommodation; Open education resources; Library Stakeholders
• ISBN: 1000476065; 9781000476064; 9780367653170; 9780367653194; 0367653192; 0367653176; 9781000476071; 1003128874; 1000476073; 9781003128878
• DOI: 10.4324/9781003128878

The Internationalization of the Academic Library presents a theoretically informed, empirically grounded analysis of the process of academic library internationalization. Drawing on interviews with library personnel from around the world, Lombard analyzes internationalization at the departmental level of an academic library. Demonstrating that college and library personnel have positive intentions when it comes to internationalization, the research presented nevertheless reveals little commitment to an intentional, holistic role in the libraries studied. Drawing on internationalization expertise and models of prominent scholars, the book argues that libraries need to be more deliberate in their internationalization efforts and collaborate with other college personnel and departments outside the library. Lombard asserts that internationalization can facilitate a better understanding of the potential for transformation of a library's mission, vision, and policy. The Internationalization of the Academic Library cuts across the fields of library science and higher education administration, ensuring that the book will appeal to researchers and students working in these disciplines. Library professionals around the world will also find much to interest them within the book.