Archive for 'International'
Interest Group Advances Services To International Students
Did you know that the number of international students at about 3,000 U.S. colleges and universities rose 8% last year to a new high of 671,616. Big increases in students from China helped fuel the rise. As in other recent years, India once again sent the most students to the U.S., followed by China, South [...]
Posted by StevenB on February 3rd, 2010 under International, Student Issues.
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From Russia With Blog
Editor’s Note: Over the past few weeks I’ve engaged in correspondence with Ekaterina Efimova, a reference librarian at the Scientific Library of the Ural State University in Russia – and Russia’s first academic librarian blogger! She has been working as a professional librarian for 3 years. Katerina, as she refers to herself, first contacted me [...]
Posted by StevenB on June 3rd, 2008 under Information Literacy, International.
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The great international debate
My library has been working on updating our tenure and promotion policies. Yes, I can hear the collective groans from everyone out there, and it has indeed been a slow and painstaking process. But wait — lest I start out on a negative note I want to hasten to add that it is also a [...]
Posted by Kim Leeder on November 16th, 2007 under Faculty, International.
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