This book sets an agenda and a direction for the immediate future of libraries and fills the gap between what readers might have learned in library school and what is experienced today. Emphasizing tested programs and practices that work, the manual calls for rethinking even the most basic library structures and icons, reinventing an instruction…

Highlights some professional associations' statements regarding education and the place of technology in educational programs. Examines the content of core curricula of a set of library and information science programs. Suggests content elements of an ideal core, designed to meet the intellectual and practical needs of information professionals of…

Five concentrations have been introduced as part of a major redesign of the University of Tennessee-Knoxville School of Information Sciences (SIS) program. One of the concentrations currently offered is "Scientific and Technical Information." Background, environment, and content of the concentration are described, as well as plans for…