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United States Symposium and Workshop on Library and Information Science Education in the Digital Age Proceedings of the 2000 Sino- United States Symposium and Workshop on Library and Information Science Education in the Digital Age November 5-10, 2000 Wuhan, China D. E. Perushek Editor Council on Library and Information Resources Washington, D.C. Proceedings of the 2000 Sino-United States Symposium and Workshop on Library and Information Science Education in the Digital Age November 5-10, 2000 Wuhan, China D. E. Perushek Editor Council on Library and Information Resources Washington, D.C. About the Editor D. E. Perushek, assistant university librarian for collection management at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, studied library science at the University of Michigan and the University of Chicago. She began her library career as head of the Wason Collection at Cornell University. Subsequently, she was curator of the Gest Oriental Library and East Asian Collection at Princeton University, then associate dean for collection services at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She has worked with Fudan University in Shanghai, China, on a project to microfilm books from the Sino-Japanese War period with support from the Henry Luce Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her current research interests lie in materials budget allocation and collection assessment. ISBN 1-887334-86-6 Published by: Council on Library and Information Resources 1755 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 500 Washington, DC 20036 Web site at http://www.clir.org Copyright 2001 by the Council on Library and Information Resources ii Contents Foreword .............................................................................................................................................................. iv Introduction .......................................................................................................................................................... 1 Keynote Papers Embedding an LIS School within the University and Society, by Leigh Estabrook................... 4 Information Science Facing the 21st Century, by Liang Zhanping ............................................... 9 The Role of the Dean in Implementing Change, by Brooke E. Sheldon .................................... 14 Again on the Development of Our Discipline: Suggesting “Information Resources Management” Be Our First-level Discipline, by Meng Guangjun.............................................. 17 The Reformation and Innovation of Library Science Education in the Digital Age, by Peng Feizhang................................................................................................................................ 19 Library and Information Science Education in China Today, by Wu Weici ........................................................................................................................................ 25 The Transformation of Academic Libraries in the Twenty-First Century: Challenges and Opportunities for Library and Information Science Education, by Rush G. Miller ................. 29 On the Objective and Implementation of Library and Information Science Education in the Digital Age, by Ma Feicheng ................................................................................................. 36 New Developments in Graduate Education in Library and Information Science in the United States: Formats and Technologies for Offering Distance Education Courseware, by Blanche Woolls .............................................................................................................................. 42 Some Reflections on Library Education in China, by Peter Zhou .............................................. 49 A Comparative Analysis of LIS Graduate Education in China and the United States, by Chen Chuanfu ............................................................................................................................... 53 The Enhancement and Expansion of Information Science Graduate Degree Courses in the Digital Age, by Hu Changping .................................................................................................. 66 Appendix A: Institutions Represented at the Conference .......................................................................... 70 Appendix B: Symposium Agenda .................................................................................................................. 71 Appendix C: Action Plan Proposal for Library and Information Science Education in China in the Twenty-first Century.......................................................................................................... 75 iii Foreword The question of how best to train professionals for library and information professions is being debated in many countries. What should these professionals be prepared to do? The very question raises a host of other questions about the future of the information infrastructure and how and where knowledge will be created, kept, and made available. This collection of papers, written by leading Chinese and American educators, provides a snapshot of the educators’ concerns at a time when the digital environment is bringing about rapid, fundamental change in libraries. As Diane Perushek notes in her introduction, there is a high degree of commonality in the concerns expressed by participants from both countries, despite the quite different paths that the library profession has followed in each. It is our hope that by helping to distribute the proceedings from this symposium, professionals in each country will become more aware of our common challenges and visions, and that the ideas expressed in these papers might stimulate new thinking and cooperation. The Council on Library and Information Resources is grateful to the United Board on Christian Higher Education in Asia for supporting the publication of these proceedings, to Diane Perushek for serving as rapporteur and editor of this volume, to Peter Zhou, for serving as our liaison to the symposium planners, and to the institutions and individuals in China and the United States who organized, funded, and participated in the symposium. This volume contains papers presented at the symposium’s plenary sessions. Additional papers were written for, but not delivered at, the symposium. A fuller volume of proceedings, which includes both English and Chinese versions of several of the plenary presentations, as well as papers that were not presented and the text of welcoming and concluding remarks, can be found in Proceedings, 2000 Sino-U.S. Symposium/Workshop on Library & Information Science Education in the Digital Age, November 5-10, 2000 published by Wuhan University. Kathlin Smith Council on Library and Information Resources iv Introduction The first International Symposium on Library and Informa- Natural Science Foundation of China, and the Council on Li- tion Science Education in the Digital Age, held November 5- brary and Information Resources. 10, 2000, at Wuhan University, drew more than ninety library The choice of venue at Wuhan University carries special and information science professionals from China, Macao, significance. On its site at Luojia Hill overlooking East Lake, and the United States. Participants gathered to discuss a the university is home to the oldest library school in the question of common concern: How are our respective library country, and it ranks among the best. What is now called the schools preparing students for careers in library and infor- School of Mass Communication and Information Manage- mation science and management? ment at Wuhan University traces its beginnings to the Boone The greatest catalyst for discussion was the strong sense Library School, which was established by an American edu- that library educators in China and the United States are cator in 1920 to introduce the field of library science into the dealing with identical issues. Many questions dealt with the Chinese education system. acknowledgement that the information world is new and The history of Wuhan itself provided a fitting backdrop. changing, so Library and Information Science (LIS) pedago- An industrial city of 7.5 million situated on the mighty gy and curricula must adapt. Another question that speakers Yangtze River, Wuhan (a conurbation created in 1950 by the came back to time and again was: Who is being trained in union of three neighboring cities) was named a treaty port in LIS programs—Information managers? Knowledge manag- 1860. The flourishing contacts between Wuhan and the West ers? Web and software designers? Librarians? Bibliographers? for more than a century have shaped academic as well as More than 30 institutions were represented at the sympo- commercial partnerships. sium (see Appendix A). In addition to library school admin- istrators and faculty, the participants included national gov- Symposium Structure ernment officials who oversee library education programs, The symposium was organized around a series of themes, graduate students from Wuhan University, librarians, and each introduced by a keynote presentation. (The agenda is scholars. Most of the participants were practicing profession- provided in Appendix B.) Discussion was encouraged after als, poised for an outcome from the symposium that they each presentation, and the atmosphere was one of dedication could apply once they returned to their home institutions. and candor as library and information scholars from the two The symposium was organized by Peter Xinping Zhou, countries shared experiences and visions for the future. In- while he
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