The development and significance of the core curriculum in archives, library and information studies

The main objective of this work is to try to identify the common grounds existing between archives, library and information studies from which a core curriculum could be derived for the professionals in the three fields. The underlying concept in building up such a core is that the above areas must be viewed as a whole within the information spectrum. The historical development of librarianship is taken into account as well as the early education provided for librarians in England, United States and Brazil up to modern times when technological and social innovations have brought about changes in the information services, practices and procedures which have obviously had a direct effect on the educational patterns of members of the profession. [Continues.

Information for All? The emergence of UNESCO's policy discourse on the information society (1990-2003)

The dissertation analyses the emergence of UNESCO’s policy discourse on the information society between 1990 and 2003. Taking into account the historical, political and institutional background of UNESCO and its history in the field of information and communication, the empirical analysis focuses on three different policy processes that contributed to this policy discourse: the INFOethics conference series; the creation of UNESCO’s intergovernmental Information For All Programme (IFAP); and the preparation of the Recommendation concerning the promotion and use of multilingualism and universal access to cyberspace. The empirical research is based on an analytical framework that combines Argumentative Discourse Analysis (ADA) with selected concepts and tools from Actor-Network Theory (ANT). Building on extensive archive research and interviews, these approaches are combined in such a way as to make possible a detailed account of UNESCO’s policy-making and to analyse the emergence of its policy discourse on the information society as the outcome of discursive struggles among networks of actors

Information retrieval and library management : an interactive minicomputer system

Revised version of a paper which appeared in Application of inexpensive minicomputers to information work, AGARD lecture series no. 92French version available in IDRC Digital Library: Système interactif sur mini-ordinateur pour la recherche documentaire et la gestion de bibliothèquesMonograph on the minicomputer-based information system at IDRC - discusses the background and feasibility study of the implementation of a bibliographic information system on a minicomputer, data bank management, systems design and computer programming work done at IDRC; includes a bibliography

NSF management support for aid-funded development of Egyptian scientific and technical information services

Issued as Monthly progress reports no. [1-11], Technical memorandum report, Reprint, Letter reports no. [1-5], and Technical reports no. [1-9], Project no. G-36-644 (subproject is A-51-604/Dodd/Library

The effect of the crisis in scholarly communication on university libraries in South Africa.

Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2010.The study examined the effect the crisis in scholarly communication had on university libraries in South Africa. The crisis in scholarly communication or the 'serials' crisis as it is better known to librarians has affected many academic libraries worldwide. The monopoly commercial publishers have on the academic serial/journal market has resulted in high priced subscriptions and many libraries have simply cancelled subscriptions or limited the purchase of monographs (books) to pay for ongoing journal subscriptions. A study population consisting of 17 university libraries in South Africa was surveyed by means of an online questionnaire to establish how university libraries in South Africa were affected by the crisis in scholarly communication. The research questions underpinning the study examined the cause of the crisis together with its characteristics, the factors that influenced journal cancellations, the effects of open access on journal cancellations, institutional support for open access repositories and the funding of university library budgets. A total of 12 university libraries (representing 70.6%) responded. Telephonic interviews with the Deputy Vice-Chancellors, Directors or Deans of Research at selected universities were conducted to gather supplementary data as well as verifying some points that emanated from some of the responses to the questionnaire. Results were analysed in terms of frequency of responses and graphically displayed in the form of pie charts and tables. Interpretation of the results reveals South African university libraries, like most academic and research libraries world wide, have been adversely affected by the crisis in scholarly communication. On an annual basis university librarians are faced with hard choices in terms of deciding which journals to cancel. In terms of South Africa, open access initiatives are in the early stages of development and as university librarians have not embraced such initiatives, the benefits are not being realised. Thus university libraries in South Africa are dependent on paid-for journal subscriptions. Maintaining these subscriptions will be more and more difficult as a result of the high cost of such subscriptions and the fluctuating rand. To mitigate some of these difficulties experienced university librarians should make a concerted effort to facilitate access to local research by way of institutional repositories and free content available via open access initiatives. Recommendations for university libraries and librarians are made in light of the results of the survey and the literature review. These recommendations relate to the library budget, librarians knowledge of their library collections, librarians administering and maintaining institutional repositories and facilitating access to open access content

Special Libraries, July 1978

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