Tag Archives: Library and Information Science

Global Gleanings #25 South African contributions to the international literature

Posted on 2025-09-22 by Peter Lor

This column of news, views and snippets from the international literature of books, libraries, and information, was written in July 2025 and appeared the September 2025 issue of LIASA-in-Touch, the quarterly newsletter of the Library and Information Association of South Africa. … Continue reading →

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Global Gleanings # 22: The good, the bad, and the ugly

Posted on 2024-12-08 by Peter Lor

This column of news, views and snippets from the international literature of books, libraries, and information, was written in September and appeared in the December 2024 issue of LIASA-in-Touch, the quarterly newsletter of the Library and Information Association of South Africa. … Continue reading →

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Global Gleanings # 21: South African contributions to the international literature

Posted on 2024-09-01 by Peter Lor

This column of news, views and snippets from the international literature of books, libraries, and information, was written in July and appeared in the September 2024 issue of LIASA-in-Touch, the quarterly newsletter of the Library and Information Association of South … Continue reading →

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Global Gleanings #17: South African contributions to the international LIS literature

Posted on 2023-09-07 by Peter Lor

This quarterly column of news, views and snippets from the international literature of books, libraries, and information, appears in LIASA-in-Touch, the newsletter of the Library and Information Association of South Africa. Lost to local colleagues? Many scholars in the Global … Continue reading →

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Two accolades

Posted on 2022-11-11 by Peter Lor

I was honoured on 6 October this year when the S.A. Library and Information (SALI) Trust and the Library and Information Association of S.A. (LIASA) bestowed their Lifetime Achievement Award on me at the LIASA-SCECSAL Conference dinner.  This joint award … Continue reading →

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Global gleanings no 11

Posted on 2022-03-01 by Peter Lor

A column of news, views and snippets from the international literature of books, libraries, and information, compiled by Peter Lor In loco parentis? Not many readers of this column will be old enough to remember the impassioned debates about children’s … Continue reading →

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Global gleanings #8

Posted on 2021-06-01 by Peter Lor

This is a slightly expanded version of my column of news, views and snippets from the international literature of books, libraries, and information, compiled for LIASA-in-Touch, the quarterly newsletter of the Library and Information Association of South Africa (LIASA) Virtual … Continue reading →

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Chapter 7 – International Influence and Diffusion in Library and Information Services

Posted on 2013-08-15 by Peter Lor

At last! I have posted a draft of Chapter 7, “International influence and diffusion of ideas in LIS”.  This chapter first introduces the concept of diffusion, and gives an overview of the ground-breaking generalized model of the diffusion of innovations … Continue reading →

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