Description of programs of the German Foundation for International Development's Information and Documentation Training Section focuses on education of professionals from eastern and southern Africa; improvement of information provision needed for development of countries; support of establishment of national information and documentation…

While business administration educators are increasingly using computers for instruction, incorporating administrative computing into course content and classroom activity, requiring computer literacy of students, adding courses in high-technology management, and creating departments of management information systems, no general theory of…

Argues that the link between library and information science faculty research and public policy is underdeveloped, and advocates that faculty fulfill their public service responsibility through the identification and diffusion of meaningful research findings and techniques to the profession and to decision makers who determine public policy. (EJS)

Discusses the efforts of the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center to make interactive video an integral part of foreign language instruction. Interactive video is seen as a method which could profoundly alter the old classroom model of language instruction. (Author/SED)

On the eve of a major change in communications media (from printing to widespread electronic publishing), this article reexamines and projects into future the library's fundamental role as a social institution. Discussion covers three environmental trends, library as an institution, and public policy and economic choices. Twenty references are…

Experiences at the time that George Mason University launched its first major corporate relations effort with the establishment of the George Mason Institute of Science and Technology are discussed. (MLW)

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…

Discusses strains on China's existing library resources and personnel as affected by modernization, growth of foreign literature collections, Chinese publishing expansion, and increase in educated population. Training facilities available in Beijing and Shanghai, activities of national information college at Wuhan University, and opportunities for…

Thirteen papers were presented at a conference on "The Computer: Extension of the Mind." Abstracts of five of these papers are provided, covering such topic areas as integrating computer history into courses and managing the introduction of computers into Canadian schools. Titles of the remaining eight papers are included. (JN)

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,…

Investigates problem of whether largely nonresearch approach to teaching in many library schools is likely to inhibit entry of students with academic backgrounds in science, and whether teaching of information science should be classed with librarianship or science. It is concluded that information science courses should be research-oriented. (52…

This paper offers an assessment model approach for program assessment of Information Systems (IS) undergraduate programs. The paper presents the case example of results of program assessment for the B.S. in Information Systems at University of Redlands (UR). It demonstrates the usefulness of the approach to understanding the overall success of an…

For well over a decade, the "graying" of the library profession has been the subject of much discussion. To examine this issue the Library Research Service (LRS) initiated the study, "Retirement, Retention, and Recruitment: The Future of Librarianship in Colorado." During the last quarter of 2003, 1,241 librarians,…

This book examines the intersection of information technologies, power, people, and bodies. It explores how information technologies are on a path of creating efficiency, productivity, profitability, surveillance, and control, and looks at the ways in which human-machine interface technologies, such as wearable computers, biometric technologies,…

This paper reviews the purposes and standards for library and information science journals and then looks specifically at the evaluation process for an Anglophone journal, based in the United Kingdom, of which most of the contributors and readers are from Asia. Part 1, "The Editor's Perspective," addresses the following topics: the…