Sample Web pages reflecting appropriate and inappropriate
information resources on smoking are used in conjunction with an evaluation instruction curriculum called QUICK.
Selecting
information resources and digging up new knowledge should be the most important part of professional education, necessitating the collaboration between librarians and faculty.
Clearly, the library needs ultimately to allocate its limited acquisitions budget effectively across a range of very different
information resources, including those listed earlier but also the more traditional paper-based and analog formats.
They not only help users locate the required
information resources, they also help in the examination and selection (or rejection) of the retrieved items.
Midland
Information Resources Received this award while attending the fall meeting of the IPN in Beijing, China.
Wozny's (1982) investigation of ninth-graders' use of online bibliographic databases in connection with an independent research project is one of the earliest studies in this field to draw attention to the potential of electronic
information resources not just to help young learners access information but "to introduce students to a broader world of information" (p.
The advent of networked electronic
information resources sets the scene for the development of what Atkinson (1993b) called "academic information services" (AIS).
knowledge worker - This is the end-user who employs a wide range of information technologies to draw upon diverse
information resources in a variety of formats to address his/her immediate needs through the sophisticated researching, sifting, search, and reassembly of data into highly usable formats.
A section on
information resources lists professional associations, newsletters, magazines and journals, trade shows, directories and databases, and industry Web sites.
The
information resources budget has undergone a variety of name changes and definitions in recent years.
These areas include: (1) provision of information services, (2) technology, (3) management, (4)
information resources, and (5) information service/product evaluation.
A new study "Private Label Report: Understanding Emerging Trends and Key Success Factors in Private Label," from
Information Resources, Inc.
