Librarianship and the Fulbright Fellowship: Challenges and Opportunities for American Librarians and Polish Libraries

Jankowska, Maria Anna Librarianship and the Fulbright Fellowship: Challenges and Opportunities for American Librarians and Polish Libraries. E-JASL: The Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship, 2007, vol. 8, n. 2. [Journal article (Unpaginated)]

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English abstract

This article reports on personal observations and experiences gathered while teaching, working and consulting with librarians, students, and faculty during the author’s Fulbright Senior Fellowship in Poland. It discusses multiple opportunities and rewards for American librarians willing to serve as Fulbright Fellows including professional growth, knowledge sharing, meeting new people, experiencing new library cultures, traveling, and increasing the appreciation and visibility of librarians to the academic world. Additionally, it presents a short history of Polish academic libraries and the challenges they are currently facing.

Item type: Journal article (Unpaginated)
Keywords: Fulbright Fellowship, Polish librarianship, American librarians
Subjects: D. Libraries as physical collections. > DD. Academic libraries.
F. Management. > FZ. None of these, but in this section.
G. Industry, profession and education.
Depositing user: Lidia Derfert-Wolf
Date deposited: 17 Jan 2008
Last modified: 02 Oct 2014 12:10
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/11005

References

1. Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES), Available online from http://www.cies.org/us_scholars/. [Cited 20 March 2007].

2. According to the Fulbright discipline indexes from the 2003/04, 2004/05, and 2005/06 years totally, eighteen librarians participated in the Fulbright Programs for the U.S. scholars. CIES, Available online from http://www.iie.org/cies/schlr_directories/usdir04/discipline.htm. [Cited 20 March 2007].

3. The process of formation of new democratic states included Czech Republic, Slovakia, Russia, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, and Ukraine; and the dissolution of East Germany, USSR, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia.

4. Smith, Elizabeth, “The Development of Polish Libraries: A Historical Perspective,” Journal of Educational Media & Library Sciences 29, no.1 (Fall 1991): 28-45.

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6. Lewanski, Richard, Guide to Polish Libraries and Archives. Columbia University Press, 1974. p.ix.

7. Dorfert-Wolf, Lidia, Gorski, Marek, and Marzena Marciniak, “Quality of academic libraries - funding bodies, librarians and users perspective: a common project of Polish research libraries on comparable measures.” Available online http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla71/papers/080e-Derfert-Wolf.pdf. [Cited 20 March 2007].

8. Smith, Elizabeth, “The Development of Polish Libraries: A Historical Perspective,” Journal of educational media & library sciences 29, no.1 (Fall 1991):38.


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