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Stieg, Margaret F. – Library Journal, 1987
Knowledge is an integrated whole and we need to avoid the unfortunate lack of communication and interaction that invariably follow compartmentalization. The key to the ideal, a humanistic information scientist, lies in a liberal education of which the humanities are an integral part. (21 references) (MES)
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Humanities, Information Science, Information Scientists
Direct linkCorreia, Cynthia Cheng – Library Journal, 2006
Competitive Intelligence (CI) has become an attractive concept for Library and Information Science professionals, as information and research functions have become commoditized by end users, and financial, competitive, and performance pressures increase the need to demonstrate value. In the current competitive and cost-cutting environment,…
Descriptors: Competition, Business Administration, Information Science, Information Management
Vagianos, Louis – Library Journal, 1972
The plain fact about information science...is that its practitioners do not know what they are talking about and are unable to describe the product they are trying to produce. (16 references) (Author)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Education, Information Science, Information Scientists
Vagianos, Louis – Library Journal, 1973
The concept of information utility'' (an extensive super information system) presents a challenge to librarians. Philosophies and operations must evolve to insure the librarians' position as the information specialist capable of bringing order to the chaos of the information explosion. (Author/DH)
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Information Networks, Information Science, Information Scientists
Jussim, Estelle – Library Journal, 1983
This brief review of the impact of both new and old communications technologies on the dissemination of information argues that the machine is essentially a distribution system and that it is time to consider the social, political, and economic implications of the new technologies. Six references are listed. (EJS)
Descriptors: Cable Television, Communications, Computers, Information Dissemination
Mintz, Anne P. – Library Journal, 1985
Discussion of extent of information malpractice highlights role of information broker, copyrights and fees, special library problems, protection against malpractice, contracts, ready reference risks, education against malpractice, continuing education, personal values, malpractice insurance, information producers, Dun and Bradstreet versus…
Descriptors: Contracts, Higher Education, Information Science, Information Scientists
Crowley, Bill – Library Journal, 1998
Discusses an alternative to abandoning the word "library" for "information" in graduate education. Recommends patient, consistent effort by library- and information-science educators to convince academic librarians that if they accept the standards of the teaching/research faculty, including the need to earn a Ph.D., it will raise the prestige of…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Doctoral Degrees, Higher Education, Information Science Education
