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Download full textBath Univ. of Technology (England). Univ. Library. – 1971
Lecturers in colleges of education were surveyed using semistructured, group (3-5 persons) interviews. Information requirements for lecturers involved in research means the retrieval and use of large numbers of facts or references. Lecturers engaged in teaching only, however, need to know where to find specific pieces of information. The problem…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Needs, Information Utilization, Interviews
Taylor, Robert S. – 1978
This syllabus outlines a graduate-level introductory overview of the agencies, industries, and services whose primary concerns are the creation, processing, storage, distribution, and use of information; also considered are questions relating to technological impact, the role of the information professional, and cost-benefits. The course is…
Descriptors: Curriculum Guides, Environment, Graduate Study, Information Needs
Line, Maurice B. – 1999
Several characteristics make the social sciences less amenable to bibliographic control than the sciences: inherent instability of the subject matter; the lack of a terminology that is common over time and across countries; strong political and national biases; low penalties for duplication of research; and an apparent lack of interest on the part…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Needs, Information Services, Information Utilization
Lenning, Oscar T. – 1978
In order to sort out a comprehensible total picture regarding needs assessment and to develop a useful conceptual framework for this area, a comprehensive review of the needs assessment literature pertinent to the concerns of postsecondary education was conducted. The review found that needs assessment is a viable tool for input to planning, but…
Descriptors: College Planning, Decision Making, Educational Needs, Educational Objectives
Lundeen, Gerald W.; And Others – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1993
Describes a study that investigated the information needs of rural health workers in Hawaii and their current means of information access. Highlights include ranking of information needs, ranked sources of information, hardware ownership, use of electronic sources, use of document delivery services, and perceived barriers to information use.…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Access to Information, Graphs, Health Personnel
German Foundation for International Development, Bonn (West Germany). – 1970
One reason given for the failure of the large-scale efforts in the decade 1955-1965 to increase significantly the rate of economic and technological growth in the "developing" countries of the world has been insufficient utilization of existing information essential to this development. Motivated by this belief and the opinion that this…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Conferences, Developing Nations, Documentation
Gray, J. C. – 1972
A wide range of recommendations for developing an effective network of scientific and technical information services in the Second Five-Year Plan of Indonesia are outlined here. The document indicates the importance of scientific and technical information in developing countries and proposes an approach to the problems of policy, finance, and…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Biological Sciences, Developing Nations, Humanities
