Archive for category International
News From An Academic Library in Japan
It is now just over two weeks since the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan. We have all seen the images of massive destruction, heard and read the stories of death and suffering, and witnessed the fortitude of the Japanese citizens as they attempt to return to normalcy despite the ongoing severity of the crisis [...]
Posted: 29 March, 2011 in International.
Comments: 4
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: 3 February, 2010 in International, Student Issues.
Tags: international_students
Comments: 2
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: 3 June, 2008 in Information Literacy, International.
Tags: Information Literacy, russian_academic_libraries
Comments: 5
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: 16 November, 2007 in Faculty, International.
Tags: credentials, International, tenure
Comments: 4
