This paper discussed the concept of computer competency and investigated the relationship between students’ computer competency and their perception of enjoyment and difficulty level of web-based distance-learning courses. Participants were 237 entering graduate students in library and information science from a mid-southwestern state university in the United States from year 2001 to 2003. Comp...

Advances in information and communication technologies are having a significant impact on library and information services in all sectors of society. Academic Libraries have historically been at the forefront of electronic library developments and the use of information technology (IT) in the sector can be traced back over more than four decades, but there is no room for complacency as the chan...

On Tuesday 21 November 1972 the Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine was dedicated at the University of Minnesota. The dedication ceremony began at 3.30 p.m. with brief speeches by Dr. Leonard G. Wilson, professor of the history of medicine, Mr. Glenn Brudvig, Biomedical Librarian, Mr. John Yngve of the Board of Regents of the University, and Dr. Lyle French, vice-pres...

Today’s society is the information society and the libraries are moving from traditional towards digitalization. The digitalization is the result of the need of modern information society. The paper explains the concept and architecture of a digital library. Problems, challenges and issues involved in design and development of standard digital library focused on Developing Countries Context als...

Library education all over world is under many pressures, which are enumerated. The paper concentrates on the relation between subject of librarianship, the subject of information science and the accommodation of information science in library education. Library education needs to take into account advances in information science because they provide neva theoretical frameworks and new professi...

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Rapidly expanding information archives provide access to gigabytes of electronic data, via electronic museums, newspapers, musical archives, digital libraries, software archives, mailing lists, up-to-date weather information and geographic data. Consequently current advances in information technology are driven by the need to increase the personalization of information for the user. We believe ...