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Publication date: 1 February 1987

Toni Carbo Bearman

A number of prominent educators, executives of professional associations, and business leaders address the positive and negative characteristics of contemporary library education…

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A number of prominent educators, executives of professional associations, and business leaders address the positive and negative characteristics of contemporary library education. They stress the need for professionals to have a broad understanding of the field, vision, orientation to the future, and a balance of traditional and new skills. Information professionals of the future must have a broad understanding of the organization of knowledge, communication and interpersonal skills, management ability, and orientation toward problem solving and decision making. They must also be able to analyze, synthesize, interpret, and evaluate information and knowledge. Technology is mentioned by all contributors to the forum; most emphasize the need for information professionals to be able to manage and use technology as a tool—a means to an end, but not an end itself.

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Library Hi Tech, vol. 5 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0737-8831

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Publication date: 1 September 1975

M. Carl Drott, Toni Carbo Bearman and Belver C. Griffith

A study of 266 little‐known technical house journals in the US, UK and France is described. Methods of journal selection, location, and bibliographic control are discussed. A…

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A study of 266 little‐known technical house journals in the US, UK and France is described. Methods of journal selection, location, and bibliographic control are discussed. A sample of technical articles from the journals was searched in abstracting and indexing services to determine their coverage and the extent to which such materials are prepublished or republished in standard periodicals. It was found that, although there are a significant number of technical articles published in house journals, the coverage of this literature in secondary sources is very low, and the literature is rarely included in standard periodicals.

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Aslib Proceedings, vol. 27 no. 9
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0001-253X

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Publication date: 1 May 1983

M. Lynne Neufeld

The secondary services have long been recognized as a vital link in the information transfer chain [Figure 1] that serves to diffuse knowledge from the scholar/ researcher to an…

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The secondary services have long been recognized as a vital link in the information transfer chain [Figure 1] that serves to diffuse knowledge from the scholar/ researcher to an increasingly broad and heterogenous group of users. The impact of the ‘information explosion’ at the front end of the chain has dominated discussions on the future of secondary services over the past twenty years, but more recently attention has been focused at the other end of the information transfer chain as new forces for change emerged.

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Online Review, vol. 7 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0309-314X

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Publication date: 1 March 1986

Few issues in recent times have so provoked debate and dissention within the library field as has the concept of fees for user services. The issue has aroused the passions of our…

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Few issues in recent times have so provoked debate and dissention within the library field as has the concept of fees for user services. The issue has aroused the passions of our profession precisely because its roots and implications extend far beyond the confines of just one service discipline. Its reflection is mirrored in national debates about the proper spheres of the public and private sectors—in matters of information generation and distribution, certainly, but in a host of other social ramifications as well, amounting virtually to a debate about the most basic values which we have long assumed to constitute the very framework of our democratic and humanistic society.

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Collection Building, vol. 8 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0160-4953

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Publication date: 1 December 1980

James G Ollé, WA Munford, Barbara Palmer Casini, Bill McCoubrey, Vincent McDonald and Wilfred Ashworth

I WAS shopping in a strange town when my eyes caught the sign SECOND‐HAND BOOKS—SALE TODAY IN THE BASEMENT. An iron filing can no more resist a magnet than I can resist the…

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I WAS shopping in a strange town when my eyes caught the sign SECOND‐HAND BOOKS—SALE TODAY IN THE BASEMENT. An iron filing can no more resist a magnet than I can resist the probable pleasures of a second‐hand bookshop. I passed through the door and hurried below. The basement turned out to be a cellar, but it was clean except for the air, which was bookishly musty. I turned my attention to the tables where the books were displayed and knew, at a glance, that my errand would be fruitless. I was looking at a consignment of ex‐public library books.

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New Library World, vol. 81 no. 12
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0307-4803

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Publication date: 1 February 1996

Ben Goedegebuure

Almost daily we are bombarded in the press about the ‘information superhighway’ and the ‘Information Society’ — how they will change our lives and our work, and what new services…

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Almost daily we are bombarded in the press about the ‘information superhighway’ and the ‘Information Society’ — how they will change our lives and our work, and what new services we can expect in the future. Discussions range from the dangers to life as we know it to the glorious Information Society that is to come, where we can work from our homes, order everything we need and where we never need to leave the house again. Whatever the Information Society will bring, it is certain that there will be an effect — indeed a great effect — on the general public and the information professions of the future.

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The Electronic Library, vol. 14 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0264-0473

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Publication date: 1 April 1988

Bernard Margolis

ALA Fights Proposed Access Charges. Library services could be seriously harmed by a new Federal Communications Commission (FCC) proposal to charge networks such as Telenet…

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ALA Fights Proposed Access Charges. Library services could be seriously harmed by a new Federal Communications Commission (FCC) proposal to charge networks such as Telenet. Tymnet, CompuServe, and other “enhanced service providers” access charges to local phone lines.

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The Bottom Line, vol. 1 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0888-045X

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Publication date: 1 January 1982

Ericsson Information Systems. L. M. Ericsson, the Swedish telecommunications giant, has just formed a new company — Ericsson Information Systems (EIS) — which will compete in the…

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Ericsson Information Systems. L. M. Ericsson, the Swedish telecommunications giant, has just formed a new company — Ericsson Information Systems (EIS) — which will compete in the information technology market. The new company has been created out of two Ericsson divisions and Datasaab, a Swedish computer firm, which Ericsson bought a year ago. EIS is expected to continue marketing Datasaab's successful terminal and minicomputer, but in addition will develop and sell products for the private and business markets, particularly integrated information systems, office automation systems and PABXs.

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Online Review, vol. 6 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0309-314X

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