2010 open session: Gothenburg, Sweden

New digital directions and library education: sustaining library education programs

• Sustainable LIS education in a global world
  MATS DAHLSTRÖM and HELENA FRANCKE (Swedish School of Library and Information Science, University of Borås, Borås, Sweden)
• New paradigm, new educational requirements? Australian viewpoints on education for digital libraries
  KATHERINE HOWARD (Royal Society of the Blind, Adelaide, South Australia)
• Factors affecting re-usability of learning objects across national boundaries: an exploratory study of information organization and knowledge management
  C.S.G. (Chris) KHOO (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), ABDUS SATTAR CHAUDHRY (University of Kuwait, Kuwait), SUJIN BUTDISUWAN (Mahasarakham University, Thailand) and JOYCE CHAO-CHEN CHEN (National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, China)
• Integrating diversity across the LIS curriculum: an exploratory study of instructors' perceptions and practices online
  BHARAT MEHRA (School of Information Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA), HOPE A. OLSON (School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA) and SUZANA AHMAD (School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA)
• Sustaining learning for LIS through use of a virtual world
  SHEILA WEBBER (School of information: the iSchool, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom) and DIANE NAHL (Library and Information Science Program, Information and Computer Sciences Department, University of Hawai'i, USA)