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Interdisciplinarity: The Road Ahead for Education in Digital Libraries

Coleman, Anita Sundaram (2002) Interdisciplinarity: The Road Ahead for Education in Digital Libraries. D-Lib Magazine 8(7/8).

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This article reviews the state of education in digital libraries and curriculum planning documents from professional associations in two areas: Library and Information Science; and Computing. It examines suggestions for integration and interdisciplinarity in education for digital libraries curricula using definitions of a discipline, interdisciplinarity, and the transdisciplinary structure of a university in order to discover how such integration may be successfully accomplished. A plan to use learning communities and develop an interdisciplinary curriculum for Knowledge Organization is briefly discussed.

EPrint Type:Journal Article (On-line/Unpaginated)
Keywords:Digital Libraries, Interdisciplinarity. Knowledge Organization, Computer Science
Subjects:Library and Information Science Education
ID Code:32
Deposited On:17 July 2002
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