In the last few decades, there has been steady increasing awareness of the need to empower women in order to improve their socioeconomic status to be able to cope and also contribute effectively in this period of economic crisis. ATI (access to information) provision is a vital factor in empowerment, thus, many organizations, such as library,…

Guidelines are presented to assist the library consultant to determine what services, facilities and resources management requires its library or information center to provide. These guidelines can also be used for self-evaluation of an existing library or information center. (2 references) (Author/NH)

The library problem consists of equal parts of external and internal noise. The external noise consists of the volume of publication. The internal noise can be characterized by the present and continuing brouhaha concerning reform of library education. Scientists frankly regard librarians as impediments to information. (Author/NH)

In October 1970, the Agricultural Sciences Information Network (ASIN) Committee was established by the joint landgrant/USDA Agriculture Research Policy Advisory Committee (ARPAC). The ASIN Committee was directed to review various network concepts as a means of improving information services to professional agriculturalists in the private and…

In the Twenty-first Century the library-information center may be able to provide the learner-client optimum access to all information, at all times and places, systematically gathered and dispersed through electronic networks. Then the library may be regarded as a resource instead of a repository. (Author/NH)

Suggests that information service professionals can make a valuable contribution in the changing information environment by providing access to services, identifying and developing needed services, evaluating services' effectiveness against user needs, and teaching all types of users how to access and use available information services and…

Libraries must be aware of the needs of the users in their funding organization, and yet, there is growing concern among library funding organizations that libraries are not fully coping with the information explosion. In fact, libraries, by not adopting new techniques to become more productive, are actually helping to cause the problems of the…

Topics of importance to rural America in three general areas--rural community and individual information needs, available answers to these needs, and policies and strategies to meet these needs--were addressed in a joint congressional hearing held at the Fourth General Assembly of the World Future Society in July 1982. This transcript presents…

This paper examines "appropriate information" and criteria for determining which information technologies are appropriate for developing and developed countries. Discussion covers history of development theory, developments in information technology, need for appropriate information, introduction of information technology, international…

THIS REPORT IS A STUDY OF TWO TYPES OF THE PROCESS OF QUESTION NEGOTIATION IN LIBRARIES AND INFORMATION CENTERS. THROUGH TAPED INTERVIEWS WITH SPECIAL LIBRARIANS AND INFORMATION SPECIALISTS, FIVE LEVELS OF INFORMATION WERE ISOLATED WHICH ARE CONSCIOUSLY SOUGHT AND RECEIVED BY THE LIBRARIAN IN THE NEGOTIATION PROCESS. THESE ARE (1) SUBJECT…

A plan is presented for a long-range research program, the objective of which will be to identify technical information problems and policies relating to Federal libraries and information services, to determine priorities among those issues requiring attention, and to develop research designs for each project recommended. The program is presented…

Presented as a public service in anticipation of the October 1979 White House Conference on Library and Information Services, the eight papers in this booklet call attention to the key issues which the American Society for Information Science (ASIS) believes have developed from proliferating information and for technological advances. Each of the…

Testimony relative to the establishment of a National Commission on Library and Information Science as a continuing Federal planning agency is presented in the form of verbatim oral question and answers, prepared statements, letters and supplemental materials. List of witnesses include: (1) Grant Venn, (2) L. Quincy Mumford, (3) William S. Dix,…

This is the Senate summary on the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science Act's background and on the role of the Commission. It provides a section-by-section analysis of S. 1519 which includes: (1) citation, (2) policy, (3) establishment, (4) contributions, (5) functions, (6) membership and (7) authorization of appropriations.…

This report presents the results and recommendations of a study undertaken to aid the Republic of Kenya's National Council for Science and Technology (NCST) in the development of a National Documentation and Information Centre to coordinate existing research and development (R&D) information services. The background of the NCST and its…