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Marcella, Rita; Oppenheim, Charles – Education for Information, 2020
The last decade has seen decline in the fortunes of the Library and Information Science (LIS) sector in the United Kingdom (UK), both in professional practice and in higher education. This paper sets out to assess the health and wellbeing of LIS teaching and research and to identify key strategies for its future survival. Over the past decade many…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Library Science, Information Science, Library Education
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Zuccala, Alesia; Oppenheim, Charles; Dhiensa, Rajveen – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2008
Introduction: We examine the role of the digital repository manager, discuss the future of repository management and evaluation and suggest that library and information science schools develop new repository management curricula. Method: Face-to-face interviews were carried out with managers of five different types of repositories and a Web-based…
Descriptors: Information Science Education, Information Science, Electronic Libraries, Archives
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Clarke, Maria Elizabeth; Oppenheim, Charles – Education for Information, 2006
This paper reports the results of a study of student citation behaviours in the Department of Information Science, Loughborough University. The research methods were citation analysis of student dissertation bibliographies from 1998 to 2003, a survey of student's attitudes to citation behaviour and a test of student citation accuracy. The results…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Bibliographies, Electronic Journals, Information Science
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Summers, Ron; Oppenheim, Charles; Meadows, Jack; McKnight, Cliff; Kinnell, Margaret – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1999
Presents issues relating to the future direction of information science. Investigates the history and scientific basis of information science. Discusses the change from its genesis as an academic discipline in the 1950s to its practitioner base in the 1990s. Concludes that information science will make a significant contribution to other…
Descriptors: Change, Computer Science, Development, Futures (of Society)
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Borrull, Alexandre Lopez; Oppenheim, Charles – Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST), 2004
Presents a literature review that covers the following topics related to legal aspects of the Web: copyright; domain names and trademarks; linking, framing, caching, and spamdexing; patents; pornography and censorship on the Internet; defamation; liability; conflict of laws and jurisdiction; legal deposit; and spam, i.e., unsolicited mails.…
Descriptors: Censorship, Copyrights, Information Science, Information Technology
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Oppenheim, Charles – Education for Information: The International Review of Education and Training in Library and Information Science, 1983
This essay discusses technological developments that are likely to have an impact on information science in next few years: microcomputers, satellite telecommunications, graphic information, online developments. Implications for the information profession, implications for information science courses, educational practice in 2001, and information…
Descriptors: Computer Graphics, Courses, Foreign Countries, Futures (of Society)