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C. Sean Burns; Jennifer Pusateri; Daniela K. DiGiacomo – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2025
This paper presents a novel approach to designing an online, open-source course in systems librarianship, an area of librarianship that may be perceived as complex and intimidating because of the technologies involved. The course design focuses on making systems librarianship more approachable for library and information science students who may…
Descriptors: Library Science, Online Courses, Open Education, Instructional Design
Wong, Eugene; Youssefi, Karel – 1976
Multivariable queries can be processed in the data base management system INGRES. The general procedure is to decompose the query into a sequence of one-variable queries using two processes. One process is reduction which requires breaking off components of the query which are joined to it by a single variable. The other process,…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Computer Programs, Computer Science, Computers
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Abreu Nunes, Luis Filipe de – Information Development, 1985
Discusses Portuguese information sector (computers, libraries, specialized information services), which is described as very underdeveloped in comparison with other European countries. Highlights include computer applications in information services including national industrial database, INFOLNETI; access to international databases; official…
Descriptors: Computers, Databases, Developing Nations, Development
Sholtys, Phyllis – CAUSE/EFFECT, 1985
Many organizations are establishing the role of "chief information officer," charged with directing the evolution and integration of information processing. The impact on Northern Kentucky University of adding a chief information officer and reorganizing campus information services is traced. Organizational, political, and social factors…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrators, College Administration, College Environment
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Carroll, John M.; Rosson, Mary Beth – Journal on Educational Resources in Computing, 2005
Case studies of professional software development practices describe how real (or realistic) projects are planned and executed. Cases provide engaging models of the activities and materials of software development to students and other novice practitioners. They vividly remind learners of the possibilities for meaningfully applying knowledge and…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Computers, Computer Science, Engineering
May, James H. – CAUSE/EFFECT, 1986
Among the recent technological developments that will facilitate increased integration of information systems and services are new techniques for information capture, and optical disc technology for storage and retrieval. An integrated role of providing information in a variety of formats is described.
Descriptors: College Administration, College Libraries, Computers, Higher Education
Connell, Cassie C. – Technological Horizons in Education, 1981
Educational institutions use networks to connect devices to a common line or central course to share resources. Presented is information for selecting the best network system for present and future needs. Discusses configuration of line; transmission methods, rates, and lines; cable length; price; and interfacing. (DC)
Descriptors: Communications, Computer Science, Computers, Educational Technology
Cronin, Blaise – 1986
An information society is one in which the expression "to earn one's daily bread by the sweat of one's brow" appears decidedly anachronistic. People have been seduced by the rhetoric of novelty and confused by the surface significance of terms which have become accepted parts of everyday speech. What do rubrics such as information society,…
Descriptors: Computers, Data Processing, Development, Economic Change
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National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, Washington, DC. – 1977
This document describes a proposed computer to computer protocol for electronic communication of digital information over a nationwide library bibliographic network. The protocol allows application tasks at one site on the network to converse with application tasks at any other site, regardless of differences in computer architecture or operating…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Computers, Databases, Information Science
Seal, Deborah; Casler, George – 1984
The New York State Education Department's Center for Learning Technologies was developed in February of 1982 with a mission to provide assistance to educational and cultural institutions to ensure effective implementation of the new technologies. This paper describes the concept of inservice training using technology at the national and state…
Descriptors: Computers, Educational Technology, Information Science, Inservice Teacher Education
Keune, Reinhard, Ed. – 1984
This publication presents the papers and discussion highlights of an international colloquium on new communications technologies which was held to provide a forum for debate on economic, political and social impacts of new communication technologies by western representatives from media, academia, politics, and industry. The following papers were…
Descriptors: Advertising, Broadcast Industry, Broadcast Television, Computers
International Federation of Library Associations, The Hague (Netherlands). – 1983
Papers on the education and training of librarians, which were presented at the 1983 International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) conference, include: (1) "The Role of New Technology in the Librarianship Syllabus," in which J. A. Large and R. F. Guy (United Kingdom) describe possible problems related to the integration of new…
Descriptors: Computers, Curriculum, Foreign Countries, Information Science
Bates, A. W. – 1984
By the year 2000, European higher education institutions must achieve the following aims: resolve the conflict between the social demand for education and costs of higher education without lowering standards; provide continuing education to cope with rapid technological change and increased leisure and/or unemployment; build even closer links…
Descriptors: Computers, Delivery Systems, Distance Education, Foreign Countries
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Lukac, Jenco; And Others – Journal of Library Automation, 1981
Includes Lukac's overview of an online acquisition system, Robert Newhard on information and ordinary living, Theodore Bolton on interactive home television, a survey of the CTI computer backup system by Joseph Covino and Sheila Intner, and three articles about catalogs and cataloging by Kenneth Bierman, Herbert Hoffman, and Judith Hudson. (RAA)
Descriptors: Cataloging, Computer Output Microfilm, Computers, Databases
Tocatlian, Jacques – 1985
This overview of the role of the General Information Programme (PGI) in Major Program VII: Information Systems and Access to Knowledge, one of 14 major Unesco program areas for the period 1984-1989, includes the goals of the program, a review of issues and problems in the area of information technology applications in developing countries, and a…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Computers, Developing Nations, Information Science
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