Peter Johan Lor, Department of Information Science, University of Pretoria, South Africa.

This new English language series, published jointly with IFLA, will serve as a vehicle for peer-reviewed professional and scholarly communication about a rapidly changing field. It will provide thoughtful and authoritative contributions by authors from across the world on the complex global processes involved in the management and dissemination of information and the role of libraries and other information agencies in facilitating access to it.

Based on his extensive experience in international librarianship, Peter Johan Lor, South Africa's first National Librarian and a former Secretary General of the IFLA, has written the first comprehensive and systematic overview of international and comparative librarianship. His book provides a conceptual framework and methodological guidelines for the field and covers the full range of international relations among libraries and information services, with particular attention to the international political economy of information, the international diffusion of innovations and policy in library and information services, LIS development and international aid. It concludes with a discussion of the practical relevance and future of international and comparative studies in LIS. See a short interview with Peter Lor on his work https://ifla.org/node/92590