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Nakajima, Nina; Vanderburg, Willem H. – Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society, 2005
Product take-back (also called extended producer responsibility) has become a trend for dealing with the garbage resulting from categories of problematic products. Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) is one such category with computer equipment being of particular significance. This article provides a description of the European…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Technology, Hazardous Materials, Electronic Equipment
Renes, Wim M. – 1999
This paper discusses the design of flexible and intelligent library buildings. The first section addresses how flexibility, as one of the requirements of a library building, that has high priority in the planning process. Intelligent libraries are considered in the second section, and functionality is stressed. The third section examines…
Descriptors: Building Design, Design Preferences, Design Requirements, Foreign Countries
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Eijffinger, Marcel A. M.; van Trier, Gerald M. – Information Services and Use, 1993
Explores the information market in the United States from the perspective of information scientists from the Netherlands Council for Libraries and Information Services (RABIN). Highlights include empowering the end user; the new information infrastructure; facilitating access; document delivery; electronic journals; new markets; pricing; and…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Networks, Electronic Journals, Electronic Publishing
Van daele, Henk, Ed.; Vansteenkiste, Marc, Ed. – 1986
This selection of the papers presented at a conference includes 6 introductory papers, 32 papers dealing with innovations and experiences in the authors' own countries, and reports from 6 working groups. These working groups addressed the six key topic areas of the conference: (1) relationships between new technologies and labor relations and…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Curriculum, Developed Nations, Developing Nations
Van Poucke, J., Ed.; Vansteenkiste, Marc, Ed. – 1985
The five papers in this pre-conference reader were intended to stimulate discussion about the impact of technology on society and on education in general, and to provide some insights into the opinions of Dutch and Flemish researchers working in the field. In the first paper, "Information Technology in Education," Tjeerd Plomp addresses…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Developed Nations, Educational Technology