Title: | Think Globally, Act Globally Grant Project Final Report |
Author(s): | Jiang, Shuyong; Bare, Rebecca |
Subject(s): | US-China Library Collaboration |
Abstract: | The “Think Globally, Act Globally” grant project had two goals: 1) encouraging
mutual understanding between librarians in the U.S. and China and promoting
awareness of diversity to overcome cultural barriers for U.S. librarians in serving user
communities; 2) enhancing communication between U.S. and Chinese librarians with
a view to developing and disseminating resources that can be of use to the library
community in the U.S.
Both goals were met. The project carefully designed educational programs. Five
different groups of Chinese librarians participated in the US programs learning about
American libraries and services. Eight groups of US librarians travelled to China
giving seminars on topics of library management and practice.
The project also explored communication models with two Chinese libraries through
developing a web portal for Chinese resources. The pilot portal found good open
source software to share the Chinese cultural and historical materials. |
Issue Date: | 2013-03-14 |
Genre: | Report (Grant or Annual) |
Type: | Text |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2142/42625 |
Publication Status: | unpublished |
Peer Reviewed: | not peer reviewed |
Sponsor: | Institute of Museum and Library Services/RE-06-08-0095-08 |
Date Available in IDEALS: | 2013-03-14 |