Education Matters

Daniel, Evelyn H.

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Title

Education Matters

Author(s)

Daniel, Evelyn H.

Issue Date

1983

Keyword(s)

• Libraries --Data processing
• Online data processing
• Information technology
• Library education

Abstract

"We have heard an interesting mix of practitioners and educators. My task today is to speak for library/information education in general. I hope you will consider my title, ""Education Matters,"" to reflect both possible meanings. My comments will, no doubt, reflect certain personal and institutional biases, but fortunately there is in the audience a dean or two from other schools and a number of other educators who can leap in to contradict if I veer too sharply from the common path. First, a digression. Dick Sweeney cautioned us not to let ourselves be defined by an institution or by a medium (as the book, for example). I agree with him. Clearly we are an information profession. We work with information in various ways and forms, with many different media, and in many kinds of organizations. We work with formal information systems and we create informal ones. The new information technology provides us with powerful tools that allow us to do these things more efficiently and also allow us to provide new services as well."

Publisher

Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Series/Report Name or Number

Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (20th : 1983)

ISSN

0069-4789

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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