Includes bibliographical references.

Prof. S. B. Ghosh, alias Badal, as I know him / A. K. Dasgupta -- Introduction: comparative and international librarianship / Anup Kumar Das, Susmita Chakraborty -- Donations to libraries: a problem in international cooperation / Paul Sturges -- Globalization and library and information science: ethical challenges / Ismail Abdullahi -- Philanthropy in libraries / Achala Munigal, Susmita Chakraborty -- International librarianship: one librarian's experience in reducing the digital divide / Alan Hopkinson -- The role of the Special Libraries Association in promoting library professionals on a global scale / Sheila L. Rosenthal -- Role of IFLA in marketing initiatives in library and information services / Dinesh K. Gupta -- International scholarship and the role of American research libraries / Barbara I. Dewey -- International cooperation in the domains of agricultural research and information / Deva Eswara Reddy -- Energy, environment, and sustainable development knowledge center: a TERI LIC case study / Reeta Sharma, Shantanu Ganguly -- Collaboration in editorship: "Global perspectives on school libraries" / Luisa Marquardt, Dianne Oberg -- Building the capacity of librarians through collaboration: the experience of the University of Bergen and Makerere University Libraries with their new partners in the north and south / Maria G. N. Musoke, Ane Landoy -- Innovation network in IT sector: a study of collaboration patterns among selected foreign IT firms in India and China / Swapan Kumar Patra -- Library and information science collaborations in the Philippines and beyond / Ana Maria B. Fresnido, Joseph M. Yap -- Collaboration at an international level: Germany / Hella Klauser -- Across the seas: collaboration between Australia and the Pacific Islands / Jayshree Mamtora, Peter Walton -- International satellite communications to support and supplement web-based information exchange: a co-operative programme / A. Neelameghan -- Content in the cloud: towards a green information service model / Gobinda G. Chowdhury -- International cooperation in developing a digital library software and South Asia network / A. Neelameghan, K.S. Raghavan -- Digital library in a collaborative context: Romania and Norway 2003-2012 / Angela Repanovici, Ane Landoy -- Curriculum contents of digital library education (DLE) in Europe / Nafiz Zaman Shuva, Ragnar Andreas Audunson -- Internationalization of LIS education in India: ICT-based collaborative approach / Swati Bhattacharyya -- Learning mode of the future: open and distance education--role of libraries / M. P. Satija -- Internationalization of LIS (library and information science) education: the Bologna Process approach / Anna Maria Tammaro -- Collaboration scenario in the Indian LIS papers of the 21st century / Bimal Kanti Sen -- Anatomy of social science research literature: a scientometric evaluation of global productivity / K. C. Panda, Bipin Bihari Sethi.

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