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Eaton, Andrew J. – 1970
To increase a deep continuous stream of library research, the following steps are recommended: (1) expand present research activities in library schools, libraries, and professional associations; (2) add evaluative measures to library "demonstrations" set up as a part of state plans for library development; (3) sponsor experimental…
Descriptors: Information Science, Information Systems, Library Research, Library Schools
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Brooks, Terrence A. – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 1985
Reports on database management system (dbms) applications designed by library school students for university community at University of Iowa. Three dbms design issues are examined: synthesis of relations, analysis of relations (normalization procedure), and data dictionary usage. Database planning prior to automation using data dictionary approach…
Descriptors: Databases, Higher Education, Information Systems, Library Automation
Wright, H. Curtis – 1984
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…
Descriptors: Academic Deans, Communications, Documentation, History
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Cortez, Edwin M. – Special Libraries, 1986
Review of the history of education for special librarianship within library education reveals that 70 years of progress in special librarianship has had little impact on the traditional methods and philosophy of library education. Information resources management as a tool for special librarians should be integrated into future library education.…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Graduate Study, Higher Education, History
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Cooper, Michael D. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1985
Description of database management systems course being taught to students at School of Library and Information Studies, University of California, Berkeley, notes course structure, assignments, and course evaluation. Approaches to teaching concepts of three types of database systems are discussed and systems used by students in the course are…
Descriptors: Assignments, Course Content, Course Descriptions, Course Evaluation
Vladimirov, L. I. – 1974
To avoid duplication of effort, and to prevent a waste of the resources of research institutions and the time and energy of research personnel, coordination of scientific research in the field of library science within countries and on an international basis is necessary. An important step toward the creation of a world-wide system of control and…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Centralization, Cooperative Planning, Coordination