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The paper describes continuing effort to develop a repository of teaching materials for sharing and reuse in LIS schools in Asia. The development of an Information Studies Education taxonomy and metadata scheme to support searching and browsing in the repository is described. The potential for reuse of teaching materials in the topic of information organization is examined by analyzing how various aspects of this topic are covered in three Master's programmes in Information Studies, Knowledge Management and Information Systems at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. A framework is proposed for carrying out a user study to validate the taxonomy and metadata, and evaluate how they support the reuse of teaching materials in four Asian countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Un réservoir de documents pour l'apprentißage est en cours de mise en place, afin de faciliter le partage des reßources pédagogiques entre les différents programmes d'enseignement de la bibliothéconomie en Asie. Les questions induites par la mise en place d'un tel réservoir sont ici débattues, centrées sur la création, la gestion et l'organisation du contenu, ainsi que sur l'acceßibilité et la facilité d'utilisation des reßources du réservoir. Des considérations sur la mise en place de directives sur les métadonnées, sur le vocabulaire et sur la taxonomie, ainsi que les mécanismes de dépôt et d'accès, sont développées. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A repository of learning materials is being developed with a view to facilitate sharing of teaching resources among LIS education programs in Asia. Issues involved in developing such a repository are discussed with a focus on content creation, management and organization, as well as accessibility and usability of resources in the repository. Consideration for developing guidelines on metadata, vocabulary & taxonomy, and repository system and accessibility mechanisms are described. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]