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Stanton, Jeffrey M.; Guzman, Indira R.; Stam, Kathryn R. – Information Today, Inc., 2010
Information and IT are central to virtually every industry in which the United States plays a leadership role--financial services, entertainment engineering, aerospace, medicine, law, agriculture, and dozens of other fields--yet colleges have failed to attract, teach, and produce a new generation of information professionals to meet the growing…
Descriptors: Information Science, Information Technology, Information Science Education, Information Scientists
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McCarthy, Richard; Petrausch, Robert – American Journal of Business Education, 2008
Internships have been used by many academic programs to augment the student's educational experience. We discuss two internship programs that have been continuously refined in recent years to provide the students with a structured learning experience. We present a model for enriching student experiences by integrating internship experiences with…
Descriptors: Internship Programs, Program Improvement, Total Quality Management, Program Effectiveness
California Univ., Los Angeles. Graduate School of Education & Information Studies. – 1999
The purpose of this Student Handbook for the Department of Information Studies (IS) at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), is to provide a readily available summary of information from a variety of sources. The Handbook is divided into five sections. The first section, "General Information," includes the IS calendar and…
Descriptors: Certification, Credentials, Doctoral Programs, Graduate Study
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Flaspohler, Molly R.; Rux, Erika M.; Flaspohler, John A. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2007
Contemporary undergraduates in the biological sciences have unprecedented access to scientific information. Although many of these students may be savvy technologists, studies from the field of library and information science consistently show that undergraduates often struggle to locate, evaluate, and use high-quality, reputable sources of…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Research Papers (Students), Information Science Education, Student Research
Coughlin, Caroline M.; Gertzog, Alice – 1997
Created in response to requests from library science faculty for a student edition with a focus on the planning and policy issues germane to all academic libraries, this new text is a revised and abridged version of the fifth edition of "Lyle's Administration of the College Library (1992). The ten chapters of this edition include six chapters from…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Educational Development, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
Adelman, Clifford – 1997
This monograph traces changes in computer science as a field of study in the college curriculum, and the associated changes in the work force and labor market. The study followed two cohorts of students from high school to age 30. Records for the first cover the period 1972-84; and for the second, the period 1982-93. The purpose of the study was…
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, Bachelors Degrees, Career Education, Cognitive Processes