Gives a definition for "trends" and describes ways to use and find trends. Discusses different types of trends including trends for academic libraries, trends for other types of libraries/general librarianship, trends for umbrella entities, and general societal trends. Concludes by giving recommendation for finding trends from various sources. (MZ)

Motivated by the brain, neural networks are a right-brained approach to artificial intelligence that is used to recognize patterns based on previous training. In practice, one would not program an expert system to recognize a pattern and one would not train a neural network to make decisions from rules; but one could combine the best features of…

Designing effective instruction is the goal of any instructional designer. This article discusses how lesson design can be enhanced by incorporating certain fundamentals of cognitive psychology. The stages of human information processing and a typical four-step lesson are integrated in a model that can inform instructional design. (Contains 1…