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Dear JESSE Faculty and Colleagues,
Would you forward and share the following course announcement with your students, professionals and post it on relevant listservs or Bogs or Wikies?
Thank you,
--Yan Ma
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The Graduate School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Rhode Island is pleased to announce its Global Education for Librarians and Information Professionals Program.
GSLIS will offer a new course of LSC590 Chinese Information Services taught by Professor Yan Ma and other professors at Peking University and Zhejiang University in the summer of 2010. The dates are: August 17 to August 27, 2010. The course will provide students and professionals with an opportunity to travel to China to study the history of Chinese librarianship and libraries and information services from the ancient to the contemporary times.
Participants learn about different types of libraries and librarianship in China, the role of the traditional, academic, public, special and school libraries in China. Students will have an opportunity to visit the National Library of China, Peking University Library, Shanghai Library, Hangzhou Library, rural libraries, the famous Tianyige Library in Ningbo, loyal and temple libraries, children’s libraries and learn the U.S.-China Million Book Digital Library Project, which is instituted at Zhejiang University. Students will participate with Professor Ma to attend and present at the 5th Shanghai (Hangzhou) International Library Forum from August 24~27 in Shanghai and Hangzhou. A tour of the World Expo in Shanghai will be included to end the course in Shanghai.
This is a 3-credit course from GSLIS. Participants are asked to attend all class sessions and library tours in China and complete a research paper after the Seminar ends. Non-credit option is also available. Participants will attend all class sessions and library tours without the requirement of the research paper.
Scholarships:
A total of $10,000 Confucius Institute Scholarship is available. Each scholarship is $1000. The scholarship forms will be available at this site.
http://www.uri.edu/artsci/lsc/Faculty/yanma/590/ConfuciusScholarship.doc
http://www.uri.edu/artsci/lsc/Faculty/yanma/590/ConfuciusTravelScholarship.doc
Registration is open to anyone. This course can either be taken for academic credit or on a non-credit basis. The deadline for application is April 2 with a deposit of $150. The full payment of $2500 will be due on May 7th. For more information on the curriculum specific to the Global Education for Librarians and Information Professionals Program, please visit GSLIS Website: http://www.uri.edu/artsci/lsc/Academics/GELIP/LSC597_china.html
Or, contact Professor Yan Ma, Director of the GELIP Program.
Dr. Yan Ma
Professor
Director, Global Education for Librarians and Information Professionals Program
Graduate School
of Library and Information Studies
University of Rhode Island
94 West Alumni Avenue
Kingston, RI 02881 USA
Tel: 401-874-5121
Fax: 401-874-4964
Email: [log in to unmask]
For more details and to application for registration form, please visit the Study Abroad Website after February 12th at: http://www.uri.edu/international/study_abroad/summer.htm
For admission and registration information, contact
Ms. Lucia Holguin
Coordinator of URI Summer Programs Abroad
Office of International Students and Scholars
37 Lower College Road, Kingston, RI 02881
Tel: (401) 874-2019
Fax:(401) 874-2402
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Yan Ma, Ph.D.
Professor
Graduate
Special Assistant to the President on
Director, Confucius Institute at
Tel: 401-874-2819 (GSLIS)
Fax: 401-874-4964 (GSLIS
Tel: 401-874-5121 (CI)
Fax: 401-874-7095 (CI)
Email: yanma@uri.edu
Homepage: http://www.uri.edu/artsci/lsc/People/ma.html
Confucius Institute Homepage: http://www.uri.edu/confucius/