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Library and information science education in Saudi Arabia

Moid Ahmad Siddiqui

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This paper describes, in brief, the different levels of education and the management of various types of libraries in Saudi Arabia. The paper also presents the current state-of-affairs of library and information science (LIS) education in Saudi Arabia, besides indicating various constraints faced by the librarianship profession as a career and suggests how to overcome them.

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Key concepts: Information science, Higher education, Mathematics education, Library science, Sociology, Political science, Psychology, Computer science