This paper discusses the potential role of librarians in user education and training in the context of knowledge management (KM) initiatives. The paper first summarizes the results of a recent study of KM systems that found a high failure and disappointment rate, with more than half of the failures attributable to inadequate user training and…

This paper discusses the role of the Directorate of Studies in the legislative work of the Hellenic Parliament (Greece). The first section describes the establishment and organization of the Directorate of Studies, which consists of three departments: the department for the elaboration of bills and law proposals, the department for parliamentary…

An experimental, independent study, history course is described by its designer who desired to evoke some enthusiasm for the study of history. His three basic guidelines were: (1) the library is the best classroom, (2) class activities should center around learning experiences, and (3) course content should be relevant to student needs. (7…

Future library users will be oriented more toward information and access to it than to the medium containing the information. Both cultural and technological development will affect users' expectations and demands of academic library services. (Author/MSE)

Computer technology can liberate research from the bonds of time and distance and lead to a transformation of the library's role as an educational resource. (Author)

Discusses the Education for All Handicapped Children Act and some of its effects and impact on public education, focusing on ideas and ways to make the library media center a meaningful experience for the hearing impaired, deaf, blind, and physically handicapped. (MP)

Discusses the British Library's role, identity, and expectations, and comments on successes, charges, and copyright problems of the Lending Division, the current image of the Reference Division, controversial areas within the Bibliographic Services Division, and criticism of library research associated with the Research and Development Department.…

Technological imperatives will produce major changes in the future, affecting the way we work, where we live, and how we spend our leisure. Among those affecting the form and role of the library will be changes in educational and research directions, in publishing, and information delivery. (Author/RAA)

Argues that academic librarians should broaden the concept of education as it applies to their own activity within the academic structure, and suggests that one way of accomplishing this would be to focus on interdisciplinarity and its potential for social change. Thirteen references are listed. (CHC)

Shares some highlights of the March 8, 1979 meeting between the President's top policy-makers, members of the National Commission on Library and Information Science (NCLIS), and the staff of the White House Conference on Library and Information Services. (JD)

Traces the role of public libraries in American democracy and free enterprise and their contributions to the careers of such men as Carnegie, Radtke, Goddard, and Land. Library services to industry are described, and a new federal-state-local pattern of funding is advocated for the maintenance of public libraries. (RBF)

Calls for public library cooperation to meet the needs of the 10 to 20 million adults in the U.S. who cannot read. It is suggested that, in light of declining budgets, the appropriate special collections and services be made available only at certain designated libraries or branches within a system. (LLS)

Describes how a librarian involved school children in reading poetry to college students in children's literature classes, classes on the teaching of reading, and classes in language arts. (HOD)

Discusses the historic and contemporary involvement of public libraries in community education, with emphasis on the need for cooperation among libraries of all types and other community agencies to ensure quality programs. (Author/CMV)

Relates ways in which librarians are using their traditional print-related skills for the selection, organization, and servicing of audiovisual collections in order to make these materials more accessible to both students and teachers. (FL)