...Breanne Erin Crumpton; Emily Porter-Fyke Purpose The aim of this paper is to examine the versatility of the MLIS degree through the lens of special libraries in terms of education, core competencies and benefits. Special libraries show the value of the Master of Library and Information Science...

...John Maxymuk Purpose The purpose of this paper is to look at social networking aspects of Web 2.0 and how they might relate to libraries and library education. Design/methodology/approach The paper looks at The 23 Things, a focus of the Public Library of Charlotte and Meckenburg County...

... in Downers Grove, Illinois, has created a page devoted to the scourge of plagiarism (www.csd99.k12.il.us/north/library/plagiarism.htm), and it is a very thorough and useful site. Libraries Education Electronic media Internet Intellectual property The practice of looking up your own name...

... Internet Public libraries Information services Education Youth United States of America As Dr Anne Woodsworth offered in a recent article (Woodsworth, 2005), we are pleased to describe The New York Public Library's (NYPL) year one implementation on the Foundation's extraordinary grant of $2...

... in their education than merely informing about research methodologies. These classes may dispel some of the "math mythology"that some students (and many practitioners) may have accepted. If we can help students over number-phobias, then we might interest them to taking courses dealing with budgeting, financial...

...Eileen Fitzsimons © MCB UP Limited 2001 --> Local government Public libraries Education Funding Proposal to freeze Library and Local Government Support Fund in Ohio Keywords: Local government, Public libraries, Education, Funding Dateline: State of Ohio...

...Lawrence M. Rudner This paper contends that US federal policy with regard to the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) must change and that ERIC will need massive restructuring in order to continue to meet the information needs of the education community. Four arguments are presented...

..., low-income persons, and the less educated access to information sources. This current set of grants is specifically encouraging projects developed by smaller, locally-based organizations projects involving partnerships among its four application areas - community networking and services; lifelong...

...Eileen Fitzsimons Legislation Education Local governments Federal governments Funding Keywords Legislation, Education, Local governments, Federal governments,Funding House floor action on the conference report for H.R. 3064, the District of Columbia spending bill, now includes...

...John Maxymuk How well digital libraries are meeting these service and resource needs of distant education students is an interesting question with inconclusive evidence according to the Institute for Higher Education Policy in Washington (www.ihep.com/). In their 1999 report, What's...

... © MCB UP Limited 1999 --> Education Schools Students Teachers Technology Computer training Keywords: Education, Schools, Students, Teachers, Technology, Computer training On May 19 the Department of Education unveiled an outline of the Administration's Elementary...

... it all came together. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Budgeting Education Information services Library services I have taught a course about library budgeting at Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science (Boston, Massachusetts, USA) for over 15 years. I wish more schools...