The intellectual origins of information organization (IO) as a field of study are examined by tracing the use of the terms, "information organization", "knowledge organization", "bibliographic control", and their variants, and by surveying the educational texts dealing with the various component activities of IO,…

As digital devices play a more critical role in daily life than ever, more opportunities arise for innovative learning technologies--a trend on full display in the "Educational Media and Technology Yearbook" for 2013. This latest edition from the Association for Education, Communication, and Technology (AECT) notes the most current…

This guide presents up-dated information, on a world-wide basis, on training facilities in documentation and information work. Only data relating to the formal training of documentalists, information workers and special librarians are included, except for those countries in which only short courses or seminars are available. Forty-seven countries…

The purpose of this report is to summarize the content of a series of lectures given at the School of Library Science, State University of New York at Albany. Four summaries are presented. "The Limits of Information Retrieval" discusses the need for a theory of documentation and how it can be derived. "The Structure of Notification" considers in…

This bibliography is the result of an intensive search through all available indexing and abstracting sources in the fields of library science, information science, documentation and computer science. The purpose is to support an investigation into the nature of an information worker and provisions for his education. The basis of selection was…

This report begins by examining the educational legislation governing the special technical schools for librarianship and information and documentation in West Germany, with emphasis on the practical approach implicit in the statutory requirements. The theoretically-grounded, practically-oriented program at the Gesellschaft fur Information und…

Describes the necessity of information processing and dissemination in the present development of scientific knowledge. Indicates that training programs are available at Sheffield and City Universities and Leeds Polytechnic. (CC)

The establishment of the first documentation center in a library school early in 1955 by Jesse Shera, Dean of the Library School at Western Reserve University, has been widely interpreted as his greatest contribution to librarianship. It may have been his greatest folly, however, because information science has subsequently flooded the library…

The successful development of documentation and library services depends on the availability of sufficient qualified personnel. Unesco has therefore given high priority in its program to the question of professional training and will assist its member states in their efforts to train sufficient numbers of documentalists and librarians. To this…

Information work is considered from point of view of knowledge production, knowledge needs, and communication media. Developments in diffusion and transmission of knowledge, transitional stage between "documentalization" and "informatization," changing role of the information professional, new orientations in information field,…

Profiles the library and information landscape in the Federal Republic of Germany and presents an overview of primary, secondary, and higher education as well as of the various educational "tracks" leading to professional library careers in West Germany. Three figures and a 45-item reference list accompany the text. (Author/JL)

This discussion of the need to improve the quality of professional formation within the harmonization of teaching information professionals in a developing country argues that a firm theoretical area of knowledge is needed, and suggests that this paper can be considered as a point of reference for the harmonization of teaching the three…

THIS REPORT SYNTHESIZES FOUR YEARS WORK AND THOUGHT AIMED AT DESIGNING AND TESTING A SERIES OF COURSE SYLLABI FOR STUDY IN THE BASIC AREAS OF THE INFORMATION SCIENCES. THE RESULTS OF THE WORK ARE PRESENTED AS AN ARRAY OF COURSES IN FIVE GENERAL AREAS--(1) INFORMATION SYSTEM ANALYSIS, INCLUDING STUDY OF SPECIFIC SYSTEM PROBLEMS OF TECHNIQUES OF…

Intended for use as a practical guide by teachers of librarianship, information science, and archives administration, this guide includes exercises and explanations to assist in writing learning objectives in these areas. The examples presented relate to the various levels of training, and illustrate the diversity of topics in this subject area;…

This state-of-the-art report presents the current IFLA position on library education and training and describes some of the experiences that occurred from 1980 to 1987 on which this position is based. These are: (1) IFLA-Unesco (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) pre-conference seminars held in Manila (1980),…