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Publication date: 1 April 1966

JACK BIRD

The author reviews developments since 1964 in the following fields: the education of information scientists, library schools in universities, CNAA courses, the Library Association…

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The author reviews developments since 1964 in the following fields: the education of information scientists, library schools in universities, CNAA courses, the Library Association examinations, the Library Assistant's Certificate, provision of training for staff in organizations without information departments or libraries, and Aslib courses. Suggestions are made for development in the following fields: part‐time study, re‐training, advanced courses in library management, integration of education for librarianship and information work with related subjects, attracting science graduates into the profession, and finding and training teachers.

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Journal of Documentation, vol. 22 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0022-0418

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Publication date: 1 March 1964

At the April meeting Mr Jack Bird, M.A., F.L.A., Education Officer of Aslib, will speak on ‘Taking stock—a fresh look at education for special librarians in an age of expansion’…

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At the April meeting Mr Jack Bird, M.A., F.L.A., Education Officer of Aslib, will speak on ‘Taking stock—a fresh look at education for special librarians in an age of expansion’. The Chair will be taken by Mr L. G. Patrick, F.L.A., Librarian, Aluminium Laboratories Ltd. The meeting will be held on Wednes‐day 22nd April at 3 Belgrave Square at 5.30 p.m. Tea will be served at 5 o'clock.

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Aslib Proceedings, vol. 16 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0001-253X

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Publication date: 1 June 1964

The Branch held a week‐end conference at Hertford College, Oxford, from 17th to 19th April, on the theme ‘Educating the user’. Mr Gordon H.Wright, County Technical Librarian of…

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The Branch held a week‐end conference at Hertford College, Oxford, from 17th to 19th April, on the theme ‘Educating the user’. Mr Gordon H.Wright, County Technical Librarian of Hertfordshire, in a paper on ‘Educating tomorrow's potential information user’, discussed critical thinking and the art of communication. Mr J.E.Terry, Information Officer, AERE Harwell, described the course on information sources and library services which is run for scientific officers at AERE. Mrs Irene Veasey of Blackwell's urged that Aslib appoint advisory officers to discuss with representatives of organizations the practical aspects of information dissemination within their own concerns. Mr Jack Bird, Education Officer, Aslib, and the three speakers were on a panel to discuss points arising from the papers, and open discussion then followed.

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Aslib Proceedings, vol. 16 no. 6
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ISSN: 0001-253X

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Publication date: 1 September 1961

An introductory course for graduates entering information or special library work, and other persons put in charge of library or information departments without previous…

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An introductory course for graduates entering information or special library work, and other persons put in charge of library or information departments without previous experience, will be held at Aslib from 30th October to 3rd November 1961. Lectures will introduce students to the basic principles governing the handling of information, and acquaint them with some of the practical details of the operation of an information service or library. There will be a practical session and a discussion session, and visits to a number of libraries and information departments, including Aslib library and information department, have been arranged. The lectures will be given by the Education Officer, Mr Jack Bird. The fee for the course will be £10. Further details and application forms can be obtained from Aslib.

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Aslib Proceedings, vol. 13 no. 9
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0001-253X

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Publication date: 6 April 2017

Stephanie Barnes and Nick Milton

Knowledge management really does make a difference; it is not just an academic idea. There are lots of case studies and examples of knowledge management activities having a…

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Purpose

Knowledge management really does make a difference; it is not just an academic idea. There are lots of case studies and examples of knowledge management activities having a significant impact on the results of an organization, and some examples will be cited in the body of the paper. However, Knoco’s Bird Island serious game is one of the quickest, easiest, and most enjoyable ways to make the point. The paper aims to discuss these issues.

Design/methodology/approach

This paper will review how Knoco’s Bird Island serious game is played. It will also discuss the results of over the almost 20 years that it has been played: what participants have experienced, what has been learned, and most importantly, the data that have been collected that help prove that sharing knowledge is a very powerful thing to do.

Findings

By using three different KM processes (after action reviews, peer assists, and best practice sharing) results of the activity go from abysmal to unbelievable, increasing by an average of 258 per cent, all because of reflecting, sharing, and learning. Even if participants want to continue to be sceptical of the results that making better use of their organization’s knowledge can have and they think they can only attain a fraction of this, 10 per cent of the demonstrated result is still almost 26 per cent. Isn’t that worth at least giving it a try?

Originality/value

Knoco has been running their serious game for almost two decades and have the data to prove it.

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World Journal of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development, vol. 14 no. 2/3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 2042-5945

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Publication date: 1 July 1964

JACK BIRD and L.G. Patrick

Rather more than a year ago, on 26th November 1962, Mr Patrick read to an Aslib evening meeting a paper entitled ‘Some implications of the new Library Association syllabus from…

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Rather more than a year ago, on 26th November 1962, Mr Patrick read to an Aslib evening meeting a paper entitled ‘Some implications of the new Library Association syllabus from the special library viewpoint’. The situation which he discussed there was known to be causing some concern to special librarians. The new Library Association examination syllabus gave students far more opportunity to specialize than had ever been possible before, and to this extent it went a long way to meeting the demands that special librarians had been voicing for many years. But as the arrangements for teaching it became known, many aspects of them seemed likely to cause difficulty to special libraries. In future the main emphasis of professional library education was to be on full‐time study, and the majority of recruits to the profession were expected to go to library school straight from school or university without previous experience of work in a library. What part‐time instruction was available would mainly be organized on a day‐release basis, instead of evening classes as in the past. Furthermore, owing to the difficulty of providing instruction in the wide choice of alternative papers proposed, it was expected that teaching would be concentrated in a small number of library schools. As a consequence of this it was anticipated that libraries would reorganize their staffs so as to separate professional from non‐professional duties, and there were plans—far from definite at this stage—for a separate Library Assistant's Certificate to cater for the training of non‐professional staff. For a number of reasons it was feared that these arrangements would hit special libraries particularly hard. There seemed little prospect that libraries would be able, under the proposed arrangements, to recruit staff with the scientific knowledge or the familiarity with industry which many special librarians felt to be essential. It seemed quite out of the question that the majority of special libraries would ever be able to release staff for full‐time education, and for very small libraries, which were known to be numerous, even day‐release presented almost insuperable difficulties. Moreover, in these same small libraries, the separation of professional and non‐professional duties was also difficult, and many special librarians felt that it would be difficult to organize work if the supply of librarians in training were to dry up. The discussion that was aroused by Mr Patrick's paper, both at the meeting and in correspondence after, made it clear that the doubts and fears about the new syllabus were widely held by members of Aslib, although there were also those who held that these doubts were largely based on misunderstandings, and that when the new arrangements came into operation it would be found that special libraries would not suffer. The Aslib Education Committee decided that more concrete information on the actual situation in special libraries was needed, and so it was decided to send to all members a questionnaire designed not only to find out what special librarians felt about the new arrangements but also to assess as far as possible what would be the actual effect of the new arrangements on member libraries and their existing staffs. Accordingly a questionnaire was drafted and tested, and sent to all members in the summer of 1963.

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Aslib Proceedings, vol. 16 no. 7
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0001-253X

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Publication date: 1 January 1983

STEPHAN SCHWARZ

There is nowadays a fair consensus among politicians, theoreticians and practitioners involved in development strategies that a certain level of indigenous science and technology…

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There is nowadays a fair consensus among politicians, theoreticians and practitioners involved in development strategies that a certain level of indigenous science and technology (S & T) is a prerequisite for satisfactory control of local production developments, and thereby reduced dependence on external interests. From this understanding derives the need for access to scientific and technical information (STI) and the extension to the entire spectrum of ‘know‐what, know‐how, know‐what‐for’ etc. that links basic research through technical R & D to industrial production and marketing. That ‘information transfer’ (scientific, technical, socio‐economic) is regarded as being of key importance is clear from the immense literature emanating from national and international bodies, reaching a peak in the Unisist II and UNCSTD conferences. No doubt this is a serious concern, even if it sometimes takes bizarre expressions, like the political weight given to the subtle distinction between whether STI is ‘a common property of humanity’ or only ‘an important asset’.

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Journal of Documentation, vol. 39 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0022-0418

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Publication date: 24 November 2022

Dahlia Schweitzer

While there is no question that women on movie screens are frequently eroticised, with countless shots of heaving bosoms or curvaceous rear ends, action stars do occasionally get…

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While there is no question that women on movie screens are frequently eroticised, with countless shots of heaving bosoms or curvaceous rear ends, action stars do occasionally get a reprieve. Pam Grier, the first female action star, was not so lucky. While Grier's Amazonian status should be celebrated, the dark side of her career should also be noted as a cautionary tale of just how much misogyny and racism lurks behind Hollywood doors and intertwined into American cinema history. This chapter examines how Grier's career forces us to rethink both femininity and racism, as well as action films themselves.

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Publication date: 1 October 1957

R.E. FAIRBAIRN

When I was first invited to give this paper it was suggested that it might be one of two or three papers dealing with a planned information service. The title has now been changed…

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When I was first invited to give this paper it was suggested that it might be one of two or three papers dealing with a planned information service. The title has now been changed to ‘Information methods: adaptation to growth’, but I think this still implies there is a considerable amount of planning to do. However, after some weeks of unproductive thought upon this subect I stopped trying to think about planning the growth of an information service, and I started to think about why I couldn't think about the planning of the growth of an information service—quite a different matter.

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Aslib Proceedings, vol. 9 no. 10
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0001-253X

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Publication date: 1 February 1963

C.W. HANSON and PATRICIA TILBURY

To what extent do special librarians and information workers read the literature of their own profession? What use do they make of it? Which journals do they read? Which books do…

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To what extent do special librarians and information workers read the literature of their own profession? What use do they make of it? Which journals do they read? Which books do they consult?

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Journal of Documentation, vol. 19 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0022-0418

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