Where in the World to Learn: A Guide to Library and Information Science for International Education Advisers

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Educational advisers around the world respond daily to numerous questions about study or research in the United States. In order to adequately address the growing volume of these crucial enquiries, advisers need to begin to develop themselves as information professionals. To this end, this book gives international education advisers a solid grounding in library and information science. From it, advisers should learn how to acquire appropriate materials, organise them in a useful manner, and effectively meet the needs of their clients. The author emphasises the importance of advising for international education within the context of the accelerated internationalisation of the globe. He further stresses the importance of developing advising as an information profession within the advance of the information age. His book demonstrates the character of advising as an information service involving the systematic gathering, organising, communicating and managing of information. The conviction of this work is that advisers can achieve maximum professionalisation through commitment to developing themselves and advising as a systematic service.

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.,."a basic textbook of librarianship but set in a specialized context and aimed at individuals who have had no library or information studies training or experience. As such it fills a gap in the literature...the basic principles which it covers would be vaulable for anyone who is working in a career guidance centre...there is much useful information and many ideas to be gleaned from this publication."-Reference Reviews
...a basic textbook of librarianship but set in a specialized context and aimed at individuals who have had no library or information studies training or experience. As such it fills a gap in the literature...the basic principles which it covers would be vaulable for anyone who is working in a career guidance centre...there is much useful information and many ideas to be gleaned from this publication.-Reference Reviews
..."a basic textbook of librarianship but set in a specialized context and aimed at individuals who have had no library or information studies training or experience. As such it fills a gap in the literature...the basic principles which it covers would be vaulable for anyone who is working in a career guidance centre...there is much useful information and many ideas to be gleaned from this publication."-Reference Reviews

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EDWARD A. RIEDINGER is bibliographer for Latin America and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of History at Ohio State University. He is the former head of the educational advising services of the Fulbright Commission in Brazil, where he pioneered standards for advising collections, adviser training, and the global professional organization of overseas advisers.