Towards the knowledge society: new roles for Librarians in a changing world.

Proceedings include papers of Final Conference participants of the TEMPUS project “New master programme on library and information science” (NMPLS). Members of the consortium are
Tashkent State Institute of Culture, Tashkent University of Information Technologies from Uzbekistan; Robert Gordon University, Middlesex University from Great Britain; University of Parma from Italy; Rezekne Higher Education Institute from Latvia; University of Barcelona from Spain; Fundamental Scientific Library, International Scientific and Training Center from Armenia; Ilia Chavhavadze State University, Georgia Library Association from Georgia.

Funded by EU through Middlesex University

Contains papers by Alan Hopkinson 'The story so far' pp. 8 - 10 and Marc21 and UNIMARC: a comparison of exchange metadata formats, pp. 33 - 38, a paper by Muhammad Farooq quondam Commonwealth Professional Fellow Middlesex University, Information-seeking behavior of students at Riphah international university, Islamabad, Pakistan, pp. 61 - 66 and Elli Georgiadou 'Quality enhancement in higher education: a systemic approach emulating information systems methods and practices', pp. 67 - 73