... to the ongoing dialogue around the changing library and information science profession. Information management Oil and gas Data management Professionalisation Distance learning The UK Energy Act (2016) recognises the need for management of petroleum data and increases the obligations...

... Limited 2012 Virtual worlds Second Life Avatars Digital reference Distance education Librarians Distance learning Today's librarians and educators stand at the crossroads of two worlds – teaching and answering questions within “brick and mortar” libraries and classrooms while also...

... literacy (IL) in the Geographic Information Science/Systems (GIS) discipline. Design/methodology/approach Adopting an embedded exploratory case study, the data were gathered from semi‐structured interviews, an open‐ended questionnaire and students' reflection in an online distance learning (ODL) GIS...

...Christine Urquhart Caroline   Howard , Karen   Schenk and Richard   Discenza . Distance Learning and University Effectiveness: Changing Educational Paradigms for Online Learning . Hershey, PA : Information Science Publishing (Idea Group)   2004 . pp. 352 , ISBN: 1‐59140...

...   £44.95 hbk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 --> Digital libraries Distance learning Virtual organizations The papers in the book are a result of the 5^th Libraries without Walls Conference held in 2003. There are 24 papers addressing four themes. The themes...

... libraries Distance learning The twin themes of the book are that universities must become global and must simultaneously become largely, though not totally, virtual. The two themes are blended and balanced well, as the authors attempt to answer their opening question, what will universities be like...

... Distance learning Virtual organizations Only at first sight academia life looks steady and unchangeable. This book, The Virtual University? Knowledge, Markets and Management, presents a variety of aspects, features, approaches and achievements in changing university – virtual or global...

...Tony Cawkell In the late 1990s I became interested in “distance learning”, etc. and wrote a couple of short articles for “Online and CD Notes” (now incorporated into Library Hi Tech News) on this subject from which the following quotations are extracted: To conceive extravagant hopes...

...Rita Marcella Edited by M.A.   Fitzgerald and M.   Orey . Educational Media and Technology Yearbook (Volume 27) . Englewood, CO : Libraries Unlimited   2002 . , ISBN: 18002376124   $112.00 © MCB UP Limited 2003 --> Education Multimedia E‐learning Distance...

... Association. Acquisitions librarians will want to update their databases if this information has not been entered yet. Distance learning Internet Virtual libraries User studies © MCB UP Limited 2003 --> Donnelyn   Curtis . Attracting, Educating, and Serving Remote Users...

... to the expansion of queries by relevance; likewise, the results of applying these techniques to a collection of documents in Spanish are given. The same collection of documents was categorised manually and the results of both procedures were compared. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Distance learning Students...

... learning initiatives, in order to remain competitive in a globalised economy which draws increasingly on cumulative knowledge creation. In response, the HE sector in the UK offers a growing number of its programmes on a part‐time and/or distance‐learning basis for students who can remain in full‐ or part...