This discussion of educational applications of user interfaces covers the benefits of adopting database techniques in organizing multimedia materials; the evolution of user interface technology, including teletype interfaces, analogic overlay graphics, window interfaces, and adaptive systems; application design problems, including the…

An information technology course was provided to people with physical disabilities in their Ireland homes, using computers and modem links. The course included modules on business applications software and specialized applications. Nineteen of 20 participants completed the course successfully and were awarded an internationally recognized…

Describes new information processing developments and end-user products from 18 companies. Applications include optical storage and imaging devices, document management software, and automated business and data processing systems. Developments include flat-screen images, affordable image item processing, digital writing technology, and a federal…

Collaboration between professions or disciplines or across distances is discussed. A definition of collaboration is offered, processes and factors making collaboration difficult are identified, and two features of networked communication (access equalization and social equalization) that are important to collaboration are examined. (Author/MSE)

In our society, automation is done for its own sake, with little attention to need or rationale. Before implementing information technology in classroom, administrators must agree on content standards, instructional methods, educational goals. Too often, computer work stations are dumped on ill-prepared teachers with no provision for training or…

Examines the history of reference services; discusses present trends in reference services; and considers possible future model shifts that will be influenced by the continuing explosion of information technology, the need for high level skills, the need for building partnerships, and the need to clarify reference service philosophies. (Contains…

Discusses the decline of African libraries and concludes that African libraries must find their own role within an African reality. Discussion covers failed internationally funded attempts to stem the decline, including establishment of national information policies and systems; donation of books and journals; staff training; development of rural…

Discusses the need for proposing and implementing an information technology standards policy for the federal government. Topics addressed include the National Information Infrastructure (NII); voluntary standards among federal agencies; private sector organizations; coordinating the use of standards; enforcing compliance; policy goals; a framework…

Discussion of challenges faced by corporate information services (IS) departments focuses on the role of information in value-creation within a company and the necessity for organizing information to meet the needs of business managers. A basically new method of working--information counseling--is advocated as a way for the IS department to…

A profile of information technologies in secondary schools developed through interviews with 66 business educators found that word processing, database management, and spreadsheets are most frequently taught. Most respondents felt that the business education department should be in charge of teaching such technologies. (SK)

Discusses the goals, course units, instructional strategies, and tools for evaluation that might be used to equip students to understand interactive communication technologies in the workplace. (KEH)

Discusses the research on standards and standardization in information technology, including computation, telecommunications, and information management. Organizations that develop standards are described, standards for human-computer interaction and data format and interchange are reviewed, methodologies used in standards research are described,…

Reports on the outcome of a seminar that addressed issues relating to the use of information technology (IT) in universities in the United Kingdom. Results of three surveys of faculty attitudes toward the use of computers in teaching are discussed, and directions for courseware development and for institutional support are suggested. (13…

The 1990 winner of the ELITE Award for Exemplary Leadership and Information Technology Excellence in higher education offers his axioms for information resources management, covering authority/control, communications, project management, decision making, people management, strategic planning, change management, crisis management, and personal…

Proposes that methods intended to assist in information retrieval be grouped together and that the group be called "informed retrieval," a process which uses feedback from an information system to improve retrieval results. It is suggested that an integrated framework be developed that includes authority control and informed retrieval as…