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Thomas, Jeena M.; Olson, Steve – National Academies Press, 2023
On September 22, 2022, the National Academy of Sciences held a symposium entitled Endless Frontier 2022: Research and Higher Education Institutions for the Next 75 Years. The event was a follow up to a February 2020 NAS symposium convened to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the landmark report Science, the Endless Frontier. Building on the 2020…
Descriptors: Higher Education, COVID-19, Pandemics, Science and Society
Muir, Adrienne – 2001
There is a global trend towards extending legal deposit to include digital publications in order to maintain comprehensive national archives. However, including digital publications in legal deposit regulation is not enough to ensure the long-term preservation of these publications. Concepts, principles and practices accepted and understood in the…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Archives, Depository Libraries, Electronic Libraries
Hale, Michael E.; And Others – 1995
A group of faculty at the University of Georgia obtained funding for a research and development facility called the Learning and Performance Support Laboratory (LPSL). One of the LPSL's primary needs was obtaining a portable usability lab for software testing, so the facility obtained the "Luggage Lab 2000." The lab is transportable to…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Software, Educational Environment, Educational Research
Davis, Niki – 1999
Teachers and researchers need to use the research produced in education to improve their practice. However, the current modes of dissemination through journals and papers are often written for the expert community. The Telematics Centre at the University of Exeter (United Kingdom), School of Education provides creative solutions for the effective…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Educational Research, Educational Resources, Evaluation
Sodipe, R. O. – 1996
Nigeria is faced with developmental problems, most of which can be solved with the aid of scientific and technological information contained in books, journals and patents, largely obtainable from the advanced countries. There are academic and research institutions generating information that could enhance the economic development of the country…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Communications, Computer Networks, Foreign Countries
Newton, Robert; Marcella, Rita; MacLennan, Alan; Middleton, Iain – 1998
This paper illustrates practical situations in which librarians are beginning to have an impact on developments on the Internet and ultimately have an impact on lifelong learning by providing organized interfaces to resources. In the area of information skills training, it is argued that the librarian must contribute actively by developing these…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Directories, Distance Education