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Peer reviewedFasick, Adele M. – Top of the News, 1984
Discussion of the impact of new technologies (e.g., television, microcomputers) on library services to children highlights new intellectual demands, increased sophistication and pressure on families, meaning of changes for children's librarians, changing print materials, maintaining values of past, and selecting materials appropriate for…
Descriptors: Children, Futures (of Society), Librarians, Library Material Selection
Peer reviewedGuskin, Alan E.; And Others – College and Research Libraries, 1984
Addresses the importance of planning for integration of information-processing technology--particularly microcomputer software and hardware--into higher education in general and academic libraries specifically, and enumerates specific skills that academic librarians have developed which could enhance the library's role as the campus center for…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Administrative Policy, Futures (of Society), Higher Education
Woodward, Jeannette A. – American Libraries, 1995
Discusses the future of librarians from public and academic library perspectives and describes the potential impact of home computer services on information seeking in public libraries. Notes the importance of the effects of copyright and privatization issues on future Internet use. Examines the future of electronic books and the need for and role…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Electronic Publishing, Fair Use (Copyrights), Futures (of Society)
Download full textBenton Foundation, Washington, DC. – 1996
This report is about libraries and the challenges they face in the digital world, and where the public supports, or fails to support, libraries in this time of change. Library leaders' visions for the future are compared with the public's prescriptions for libraries, derived from public opinion research. Informing the study were library leaders'…
Descriptors: Change, Community Attitudes, Electronic Libraries, Futures (of Society)
Brown, James A., Jr. – 1986
By 2010, when the information age and a service-oriented economy should be thriving, accessing, manipulating, and interacting with information will be the most desirable career skills. Educational reform programs designed to improve these skills through the development of competency-based education programs, instructional technology, and critical…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Competency Based Education, Critical Thinking, Educational Technology
Peer reviewedSwan, John; And Others – Reference Librarian, 1992
Three articles discuss the issue of the mediator's role in the library of the electronic age. Topics addressed include computer-assisted instruction; online catalogs; computer networks; professional identity; reference service and bibliographic instruction; CD-ROMs; online systems; personal home microcomputers; Internet and list servers;…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Networks, Electronic Libraries, Librarians
