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Showing 1 to 20 of 150 for “"Information resources"”.
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The Information Environment of Academic Library Directors: Use of Information Resources and Communication Technologies
This study focuses on the use of information resources and communication technologies, both traditional and electronic, by academic library directors. The purpose is to improve understanding of managerial behavior when using information resources and communication technologies within a shared …
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Factors affecting Utilisation of Electronic Information Resources and Services by Medical Students at the University of Zambia
… fact that research hsa proved that electronic information resources(EIRs)have proved a wider access to information in most higher learning institutions for teaching,learning,and research as compared to printed materials,it is puzzling that these resources have not yet been appreciated in some …
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Factors affecting Utilisation of Electronic Information Resources and Services by Medical Students at the University of Zambia
… fact that research hsa proved that electronic information resources(EIRs)have proved a wider access to information in most higher learning institutions for teaching,learning,and research as compared to printed materials,it is puzzling that these resources have not yet been appreciated in some …
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The Adoption and Use of Electronic Information Resources by a Non-Traditional User Group: Automotive Service Technicians.
… increase in the amount and complexity of the information needed by those charged with servicing them. This, in turn, has led to a need for more robust methods for storing and distributing information and for a workforce more sophisticated in its use of information resources. As a result, the …
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Inequalities in the Common European Asylum System: The role of Greek libraries as information resources in the midst of asylum system shortcomings
… In large part, this void involves a lack of CEAS information resources and information professionals capable of assisting asylum seekers with the paperwork and process required to apply for asylum. Across Europe, this void is being filled by a variety of public service and non-governmental …
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Information resources, information skills and education : an exploratory study of information literacy education in community junior secondary schools in the North-East district of Botswana and the role of teacher-librarians and school libraries
One of the fundamental challenges of the information era is how to ensure that the majority of the members of a given society are information literate in order to deal with problems of inequitable access to and use of information as an empowerment tool for socio-economic progress. A variety of …
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Supporting dynamic and distributed decision making in acute care environments: Insights from a cognitive ethnography
… cope with the challenges associated with using information from social, material and technological sources in decision-making. My findings demonstrate how information resources are (1) Objectivist, in that too much attention is paid to supporting the formalized, outcome-centered aspects of …
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CINDI : Concordia Indexing and Discovery System
… problem of indexing and retrieval of electronic information resources becomes more critical. A number of search systems are currently available for this purpose on the Internet; examples are Lycos, Yahoo, Web Crawler, etc. However, they offer uneven search results, namely, many of them produce …
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Football Fans, Their Information, The Web And The Personal Home Page
… has developed into one of the world's largest information resources. One of the first genres of web pages, which was also one of the first information resources, was the Personal Home Page (PHP). Over this same period of time, professional football in England has created the world's richest …
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Automatic semantic header generator
As the amount of information and the number of Internet users grow, the problem of indexing and retrieval of electronic information resources becomes more critical. The existing search systems tend to generate misses and false hits due to the fact that they attempt to match the specified search …
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The impact of information and communications technology change on the management and operations of academic libraries
… of this study was to investigate the impact of information and communications technology change on the management and operations of academic libraries. How academic libraries deal with this phenomenon and strategies that could be considered to help deal with an environment where technology …
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Exploratory Study of Chief Information Officers in Fortune Service and Industrial Organizations
A survey was conducted of chief information officers (CIO's) in the 100 top-ranked Fortune Service organizations and in the 100 top-ranked Fortune Industrial organizations. A questionnaire was used to collect data on the following topics: the information activities managed, information-related …
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Mapping the relationship between knowledge management and information architecture
… is very close in nature and character to information. Due to the expansion of available information resources the design and structure of information (explicit knowledge) for effective retrieval has become very important. Information architecture is a field that specializes in the design …
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Aspects of information literacy with regards to the use of legal resources : case study of third year undergraduate law students of the University of Cape Town, South Africa and University of Jos, Nigeria
The study explores the relevance of information literacy in the context of legal education specifically as it affects issues on the conduct of the legal research skills of undergraduate students as well as the need for its integration into the curriculum of legal education. A review of the …
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Technology and Educational Change: Making the Links
… the challenges and implications of using new information and communications technologies (ICT) in their classrooms. It contributes to knowledge about the way teachers learn and change, their pedagogical interventions, the impact of different professional learning strategies, and identification …
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A comparison of the network speech recognition and distributed speech recognition systems and their effect on speech enabling mobile devices
… for ubiquitous access to a host of different information resources and services. Today, speech remains the best medium of communication between people and it is conceivable that speech enabling mobile devices will allow users who only have mobile devices, to access all the information which is …
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Art information use and needs of non-specialists: evidence in art museum visitor studies
… have created dramatic changes in art museum information systems which have in turn invited an expanding diversity of non-specialist art information seekers. Research is needed to support the organization of and access to basic art information content, and the vocabularies which frame this …
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Pixelating Policy: Visualizing Issue Transformation In Real and Virtual Worlds
… change. The focus for this investigation, the information resources management (IRM) policy subsystem, is examined as a 28-year case study, concluding at the end of 2002. Study results are documented textually, and visually in an exploratory, "virtual reality-based" Policy World. This study …
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The information behaviour of law students in Nigerian universities
Information seeking skills are important for students who are preparing to embark on information intensive professions such as the legal profession. Despite law libraries being available in all the Nigerian universities offering law as an undergraduate programme, law students generally do not seem …
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Annotation Manager: An Automated Web-Based Content Management System for Digital Libraries With Annotated Bibliographies
… (especially students) are always on a quest for information resources especially in the form of Web sites. Yet many of them are overwhelmed when faced with deciding which site will best suit their research needs. As a result, these individuals may select a resource for less than optimal reasons. …
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