Library Management: Volume 21 Issue 4

The impact of globalisation on Africa

Amos P.N. Thapisa

Lead paper for a virtual conference on Global Information in Africa proposing that the debate extends beyond the technical and professional. Introduces the impact on education…

Global Information and libraries in sub‐Saharan Africa

Justin Chisenga

Contributes to the discussion on the impact of Global Information on Africa with specific emphasis on libraries in sub‐Saharan Africa. Indicates that the impact of GI on libraries…

Global Information issues: LIS educators and the public good

Christine Stilwell

This sub‐theme paper addresses the question: for those who defend libraries as vital democratic institutions charged with providing free and equal access to information as a…

Training for access to Global Information

Mary Nassimbeni, Karin de Jager

Contributes to the Global Information Virtual Conference by examining training needs in the higher education sector which will be engendered by the information revolution in the…

Global Information and Africa: on the crest of a mirage?

R.A.O. Onyango

Discusses moral and philosophical questions raised in the lead paper by Thapisa.

Global Information and Africa: the telecommunications infrastructure for cyberspace

Thomas J. Afullo

According to the declarations of the first World Telecommunications Development Conference in Buenos Aires in 1994, new technological developments in telecommunications and…