NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 6 results Save | Export
Elah, Wafaa Ali Abdel – 1999
This paper describes the development of a parliamentary research service in Egypt. The first part investigates the impact on the Egyptian parliament (the People's Assembly) of the development of a new social and cultural environment that fostered the democratization process. The second part deals with how the establishment of a parliamentary…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Foreign Countries, Government (Administrative Body), Government Libraries
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Thompson, Brian Chandler; And Others – Government Information Quarterly, 1995
Collection of nine articles about presidential libraries. Highlights include the National Archives; the Bush Presidential Materials Project; the Nixon Project; automation of the Lyndon B. Johnson Library; the John F. Kennedy Library; the Eisenhower Library's four decades; past and future of the Harry S. Truman Library; the Franklin D. Roosevelt…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Archives, Federal Government, Government Libraries
Torres, Patricio Aranda – 1999
This paper formulates the means for an improved role for all citizens through a dynamic and interactive parliamentary library and information system. It illustrates the success of such a proposal to strengthen the legitimacy of parliaments by referring to the experience of the Congress of the Republic of Peru and explains what is being done to…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Citizen Role, Democracy, Foreign Countries
International Research and Exchange Board, New York, NY. – 1988
This document contains 13 papers by Soviet participants in the U.S.-U.S.S.R. Seminar on Access to Library Resources through Technology and Preservation: (1) "Automation of Information-Library Work at Scientific and Technical Libraries of the U.S.S.R." (A. S. Sorokin and V. M. Rostovtsev); (2) "Automated Information Systems for…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Computer Software, Foreign Countries, Government Libraries
Ntunja, A.; Gabriel, L. – 1999
The South African Library of Parliament and Research unit has devoted considerable time and money to improving its research and library services for members, committees, and management of Parliament. The Library and Research Units have recently re-structured and re-designed services and information products, engaging in collection development…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Case Studies, Foreign Countries, Government (Administrative Body)
Michelson, Avra – 1991
This report introduces archivists to the potential of expert systems for improving archives administration and alerts them to ways in which they can expect intelligent technologies to impact federal record-keeping systems and scholarly research methods. The report introduces the topic by describing expert systems used in three Fortune 500…
Descriptors: Archives, Business, Data Processing, Expert Systems