Librarians and information scientists have debated whether traditional cataloging methods can bring order to the Internet. Reviews literature on alternative strategies for organizing and accessing information resources on the Internet that incorporate some aspect of traditional library expertise, including library catalogs, subject trees,…

Information resources can be considered a series of formal processes or activities by which the potential usefulness of specific information messages being processed is enhanced. These processes may add value to the information for the user. In order to increase the possibility that the information will be useful to recipients and users,…

Identifies a set of objects that is genuinely indigenous to management information systems and constructs a simple model based on them. The model's four basic entities, which define the scope of information theory, are data, information, knowledge, and wisdom. (Contains 46 references.) (KRN)

Prepared for the mental health professional or administrator who is involved in the planning, developing, or implementation of an automated information system in a mental health environment, this guide is limited to the electronic processing and storage of information for management and clinical functions. Management application areas include…