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Chute, Adrienne; Kroe, P. Elaine – National Center for Education Statistics, 2007
This report includes national and state summary data on public libraries in the 50 states and the District of Columbia, with an introduction, selected findings, and tables. The report is based on data from the Public Libraries Survey for fiscal year 2005, and includes information on service measures such as number of users of electronic resources,…
Descriptors: Library Materials, Public Libraries, Internet, Library Services
OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2006
This report analyses the disclosure issues raised by technically-imposed restrictions on the use of digital content. It focuses on the application of copy control and digital rights management technologies in three areas: copy-protected CDs; online music, and DVD regional coding. In each of these areas, the report examines the kinds of…
Descriptors: Internet, Information Policy, Information Technology, Access to Information
Junor, Sean; Kramer, Miriam; Usher, Alex – Online Submission, 2006
Most universities in Canada are spending enormous amounts of effort collecting vast amounts of data, but are still--in some quarters--perceived to be unable to report data effectively. In other countries, this kind of problem has been resolved in two different ways. But in Canada, this hasn't happened. The purpose of this paper is to shed some…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Data Collection, Information Management
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Kiel-Chisholm, Scott; Fitzgerald, Brian – Policy Futures in Education, 2006
Management of intellectual property and, in particular, copyright is one of the most challenging issues in an increasingly digital world. The rise of the open access (OA) movement provides a new model for managing intellectual property in educational and research environments. OA aims to promote greater and more efficient access to educational and…
Descriptors: Legal Problems, Copyrights, Intellectual Property, Electronic Publishing
McCook, Kathleen de la Pena; Geist, Paula – 1993
This paper assesses the recommendations made during the 1991 White House Conference on Library and Information Services (WHCLIS) from a public policy view, and identifies their meaning for the public's uses and needs for library and information services. Recommendations from the WHCLIS conference which fit best with national goals were found to…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Economic Development, Futures (of Society), Information Policy
Anderson, Rebecca D. Gariglietti, Kelli P.; Price, Gary – 1998
Following a review of the literature of group counselor experiential training, this paper describes a rationale for an experiential growth group model to be used as an adjunct to a masters level group theories course. Such a course is a typical requirement within counselor training programs across the country. The current controversy which…
Descriptors: Confidentiality, Counseling, Counselor Educators, Counselor Training
Hu, Xiangen; Mathews, Eric; Graesser, Arthur C.; Susarla, Suresh – 2002
The development of authoring tools for intelligent systems is an important step for creating, maintaining, and structuring content in a quick and easy manner. It has the benefit of allowing for a rapid change to new domains or topics for tutoring. The development of such tools requires functional control, access protection, ease of learning, and…
Descriptors: Authoring Aids (Programming), Database Design, Ethics, Information Policy
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, The Hague (Netherlands). – 2001
This document contains the proceedings of the IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions) 2001 conference, including the conference program and papers, and a list of participants. The theme of the conference was "Libraries and Librarians: Making a Difference in the Knowledge Age." Subthemes included: (1)…
Descriptors: Conferences, Foreign Countries, Information Management, Information Policy
Hope, Barbara; Mattingly, Maribeth; Spear, Eric; Glasser, Mike – 1999
The University of Maryland, College Park recognized in the 1990s that its institutional data was an asset that needed to be managed. In this Information Age, data must be turned into knowledge quickly and accurately. The University of Maryland implemented a campus data warehouse, and along with it a comprehensive meta data platform for helping…
Descriptors: Copyrights, Fair Use (Copyrights), Higher Education, Information Networks
McClure, Charles R.; Sprehe, J. Timothy; Eschenfelder, Kristen – 2000
The purpose of this study was to develop performance measures that will assist federal agencies to assess the quality and usefulness of their World Wide Web sites and to improve public information access service of those Web sites. The study was sponsored jointly by three federal agencies: the Defense Technical Information Center, the Energy…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Evaluation Criteria, Federal Government, Information Policy
Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs (NJ1), 2004
The purpose of these protocols is to assist in providing guidance to PMRT members and Sub-groups in relation to seeking approval for the publication of documents of the Performance Measurement and Reporting Taskforce (PMRT) or of its predecessor the National Education Performance Monitoring Taskforce (NEPMT). These protocols complement the…
Descriptors: Measurement, Publications, Position Papers, Information Policy
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Metivier-Carreiro, Karen A.; LaFollette, Marcel C. – Science Communication, 1997
Examines aspects of cyberspace policy: Internet content and expectations; privacy: medical information and data collected by the government; and the regulation of offensive material: the Communications Decency Act, Internet filters, and the American Library Association's proactive great Web sites for children. Suggests that even "child…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Censorship, Children, Disadvantaged Youth
Pocock, Helen – Cataloguing Australia, 1997
Discusses the growth, survival and future of library classification schemes. Concludes that to survive, a scheme must constantly update its policies, and readily adapt itself to accommodate growing disciplines and changing terminology. (AEF)
Descriptors: Cataloging, Classification, Futures (of Society), Information Policy
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Fitzsimmons, Joseph J. – Journal of Library Administration, 1996
The story of the pony express offers lessons for today's document delivery. Pricing, policy, competition, and evolving technology need to be considered. To evaluate future options, researchers need to examine: types of document delivery; benefits of combining outside services with in-house systems; criteria for selecting technologies and…
Descriptors: Competition, Costs, Document Delivery, Evaluation Criteria
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Burt, David – Public Libraries, 1997
Public libraries implementing public access to the Internet are faced with making new usage policies. This study examined 75 public library Internet access policies and identifies 26 policy elements. Finds consensus in disclaimers for libraries, parental responsibility for children, warnings about potentially offensive material, and loss of…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Children, Information Policy, Information Sources
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