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Abidi, S. A. H.; Moeller, T. – 1980
In 1978 a team of three people was formed to survey the existing library training facilities in East Africa and to suggest possibilities as to how the elements of information science could be introduced either into existing programs or into special courses organized for the purpose. The team submitted its report to a joint meeting of the…
Descriptors: Conference Proceedings, Course Descriptions, Curriculum Development, Developing Nations
Download full textHurych, Jitka; Torok, Andrew – 1985
Mail surveys designed to determine the current status of end user online searching were sent to three populations: 473 faculty members in 12 departments at 20 universities, online search coordinators in 89 academic libraries, and 15 library school educators. Direct interviews with 10 university faculty members were also conducted. Faculty were…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Databases, Educational Research, Faculty
McClure, Charles R.; And Others – 1985
This report summarizes activities conducted from fall 1984 through spring 1985, under a planning grant from the Council on Library Resources for Innovation and Improvement of Basic and Supplementary Education for Academic and Research Libraries. The report includes a review of selected literature related to educational programs for academic…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Library Administration, Library Education
Council on Library Resources, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1985
The 1985 annual report of the Council on Library Resources (CLR) describes an underlying uniformity of purpose in the activities of each of the three components of the program: research, exploration and installation of improved operating capabilities, and librarianship itself. The intent in each program is to reshape academic and research…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Annual Reports, Expenditures, Grants
Griffiths, Jose-Marie; King, Donald W. – 1985
To determine the current and future competencies required by librarians and information professionals, a project was undertaken to meet the following objectives: set forth an idealized framework to be used by the librarian and information professional community; determine a first set of competencies which are validated in the workplace to some…
Descriptors: Competence, Competency Based Education, Curriculum Development, Employment Patterns
Peer reviewedEnser, P. G. B. – Education for Information, 1987
This discussion of experimental information retrieval focuses on the mathematical and statistical skills needed by students in librarianship and information studies. Theoretical approaches to document representation, query representation, database searching, and evaluation are reviewed, and changes in library schools' curriculum are suggested.…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Database Management Systems, Databases, Developed Nations
