Drug use and abuse by athletes has become a common problem. Pharmacists can assist by managing the legitimate medication needs of athletes to prevent them from accidentally using a banned substance. Pharmacists can also educate athletes and the public about the health consequences of using performance-enhancing substances. Pharmacists can play a variety of roles to assist with anti-doping. Such...

The effectiveness of Knowledge Management (KM) activities is in large part dependent upon employees’ attitudes toward knowledge in general and to KM processes in particular. This chapter reports the results of a small-scale (N = 10) interview study of the “ways of knowing and knowledge sharing” of academics in three Slovene universities. The chapter presents an analysis of the responses from in...

While the pressure of public accountability has placed increasing pressure on higher education institutions to provide information regarding critical outcomes, this chapter describes how knowledge management (KM) can be used by educational institutions to gain a more comprehensive, integrative, and reflexive understanding of the impact of information on their organizations. The practice of KM, ...

DURINGTHE 1980s, information technology proliferated in corporations. While the technology permitted information professionals to add much more value, i t also greatly increased information expense. Rising expense made financial management the fundamental library management competency, while intensifying top management pressure on the library more generally. Unfortunately, librarians continue t...

Traditionally, human services counseling (HSC) training programs have relied upon face-to-face interactions, including such methods as simulated counseling sessions and live supervision, to teach interpersonal and clinical skills. Concerns about the ability of online media to facilitate the interpersonal interaction needed to teach discipline-specific skills has delayed adoption of online learn...

The author's own experience as a student and later as an active lecturer in Afghanistan has shown that the methods used in the Afghan educational systems do not provide students with the minimum guidance needed to select the proper course of study before they enter the national university entrance exam (Kankor). The result is often high attrition rates and poor performance in

Increasingly, educational digital libraries and associated services that support both formal and informal learning are available on the Web. As these collections are web-based, they can be engineered to capture fine-grained web usage data. However, because of their voluminous and detailed nature, rigorous analytical and interpretation strategies remain challenging. In response, webmetrics refer...

Many new challenges and opportunities have arisen for Slovenia since May 2004 when it became a full member of the eu. On the one hand we have some successful economic players who can definitely gain from new opportunities, on the other hand some structural changes still have to be accomplished. One of the most demanding tasks is related to higher education and in particular to harmonization of ...

In the evolving Information Society (IS), the Information Technology (IT) skills are necessary to harness the power of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs). The United Nations (UN) estimates that there are about one billion illiterate adults and 2−3 billion technological illiterates in the world. Not surprisingly, a majority of them are from information-poor regions, non-wired soc...