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The development of education of librarianship in Taiwan has been through more than half of a century since 1954. After decades of efforts, there are 9 LIS education institutes with 19 programs from undergraduate to Ph.D. level in Taiwan. Quality assurance and quality assurance in education are defined at first and then, goals and objectives of various levels of LIS education and their requirement are stated as description of quality assurance in the profession. Stages and practices of quality assurance mechanism are discussed. The roles of authority such as the Ministry of Education, Library Association, and newly established nationwide evaluation agency—Higher Education Evaluation & Accreditation Council of Taiwan and involvement of these evaluation units have reshaped the higher education in Taiwan as well the LIS education. The conclusion states the importance of synthesizing of Library, Museum, Information, Communication, Archival Studies, Content Curatorship (Gallery). It also suggests the expansion of partnership with WIPO, ISO, IPA, IFLA for further development of standards building and accreditation system.
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Appendix 1: LIS Education Institutes in Taiwan and URL
Appendix 1: LIS Education Institutes in Taiwan and URL
Department and Graduate Institute of Library and Information Science, NTU http://www.lis.ntu.edu.tw/
Graduate Institute of Library, Information and Archival Studies, NCCU
http://www.lias.nccu.edu.tw/
Graduate Institute of Library and Information Studies, NTNU
http://www.glis.ntnu.edu.tw/webpage/
Graduate Institute of Library and Information Studies, NCHU
http://www.gilis.nchu.edu.tw/
Degree Program of ECE and CS Colleges, NCTU
http://dpeecs.nctu.edu.tw/introduction/index.aspx
Department of Library and Information Science, Fu Jen Catholic University, FJU
http://web.lins.fju.edu.tw/drupal/
Department and Graduate Program of Information and Communications, SHU http://ic.shu.edu.tw/
Department of Information and Library Science, TKU
http://www.dils.tku.edu.tw/
Department of Library and Information Science, HCU
http://dlis.hcu.edu.tw/front/bin/home.phtml
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Lin, C.P. (2015). LIS Education and Quality Assurance System in Asia-Pacific: Taiwan. In: Miwa, M., Miyahara, S. (eds) Quality Assurance in LIS Education. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6495-2_6
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