Advances in library administration and organization. Volume 27 / edited by William Graves [and others].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title from PDF title page (viewed Jan. 22, 2010).

Two steps forward, one step back : ideological and historical aspects of library and information science education in independent Ukraine / Maria Haigh -- From the old-fashioned library to the public library : changes in the cultural functions of Polish academic libraries / Miroslaw Gorny -- Acceptance of social marketing concepts by selected Romanian librarians : culture and context / Hermina G.B. Anghelescu, James Lukenbill, W. Bernard Lukenbill, Irene Owens -- Implementing organizational change in the regional public library in Prishtina, Kosovo / Svetlana Breca -- Libraries and ecology in post-soviet Russia / Ellen M. Knutson -- Internet as an information resource in Eurasia / Mark Skogen, Myles G. Smith -- Why study up? : the elite appropriation of science, institution, and tourism as a development agenda in Maramures, Romania / Catherine Closet-Crane, Susan Dopp, Jacqueline Solis, James M. Nyce -- The library in a multiethnic urban environment : the experience of the department of national literatures of the Russian national library (Saint Petersburg) / Aleksei S. Asvaturov, Dmitry K. Ravinskiy -- Bulgarian librarianship : surviving change through international cooperation / Tatiana Nikolova-Houston -- Digital libraries need digital librarians / Zsuzsanna Toszegi -- Libraries and librarianship in Czech Republic / Stanley Kalkus -- Introduction / William Graves, James M. Nyce.

How does the disintegration of the Soviet system help us to understand the character of library and information institutions and practices within post-soviet space today? Which aspects of the traditional Soviet 'information order' have disappeared from the contemporary world of libraries and information institutions and which aspects have remained, perhaps to be refigured as critical features of newly emerging national and global projects? This volume brings together diverse reflective essays, reports and empirical analyses of the changing character of the post-soviet library world to address these questions. Individual contributions from Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, the New Republic of Kosovo, and the post-soviet successor states of Eurasia all provide different perspectives on LIS.