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Chapter 3 Keeping Current: The Evolution of Postgraduate Library and Information Studies Education in New Zealand

Library and Information Science Trends and Research: Asia-Oceania

ISBN: 978-1-78052-470-2, eISBN: 978-1-78052-471-9

Publication date: 9 January 2012

Abstract

New Zealand postgraduate library and information studies qualifications have undergone a process of continual revision since the first training school for librarians was established in 1946. This chapter begins with an overview of the history of postgraduate library studies qualifications in New Zealand. It continues with a discussion of the establishment of qualifications for record keepers (archivists and records managers), followed by a description of the most recent developments, which established a generic Master of Information Studies qualification, and the associated Postgraduate Certificate and Diploma of Information Studies. It concludes with a discussion of the various drivers for these changes, and the ways in which the relationships between the various professional associations and interest groups and the education providers have evolved.

Citation

Chawner, B. and Oliver, G. (2012), "Chapter 3 Keeping Current: The Evolution of Postgraduate Library and Information Studies Education in New Zealand", Spink, A. and Singh, D. (Ed.) Library and Information Science Trends and Research: Asia-Oceania (Library and Information Science, Vol. 2), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 47-67. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1876-0562(2011)002011b005

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