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Implementing Information Technology Projects in Developing Countries.

Peer reviewed

Kanamugire, Athanase B. – Information Development, 1993

Reviews the problems of implementing information technology in developing countries and cites examples from African projects. The use of CD-ROM for access to information is examined, and experiences at the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in Saudi Arabia in introducing CD-ROM search services are described. (Contains five references.)…

Descriptors: Access to Information, College Libraries, Developing Nations, Information Dissemination

Information Access through CD-ROM and Its Impact upon Faculty Research Output: A Case of a University in Third World Countries.

Ali, S. Nazim; Young, Harold C. – Microcomputers for Information Management, 1992

Discussion of the use of CD-ROM technology at the University of Bahrain highlights database searching, interlibrary loan activity, and faculty publication. Statistics show that the acquisition of CD-ROM databases is a significant factor in an increase in faculty research publication output. (14 references) (LRW)

Descriptors: Access to Information, College Libraries, Databases, Developing Nations

The Library in Tomorrow's Society. A Literature Review.

Roberts, Kenneth H. – 1987

Intended to reflect the international library community's expectations for the next 10 to 15 years and the place of the library in tomorrow's world, this extensive selective review focuses on the professional literature published between 1982 and 1986 which treats the probable evolution of different types of libraries in both developed and…

Descriptors: Access to Information, Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Futures (of Society)

IFLA General Conference 1988. Division of Special Libraries. Section on Science and Technology Libraries; Section on Art Libraries; Section on Social Science Libraries; Section on Geography and Map Libraries; Division of Contributed Papers.

International Federation of Library Associations, The Hague (Netherlands). – 1988

The 23 papers in this collection include papers on special libraries and miscellaneous contributed papers: (1) "Networking Potentialities and Limitations--Special Library Networks in Socialist Countries--An Overview, and the Main Ways of Perestroika in the Work of Scientific and Technical Libraries at the Present Stage" (D. Schmidmaier…

Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Agriculture, Cataloging