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Information professionals as agents for information literacy

Education for Information, 2002
Despite some progress over the past decade, library and information professionals still report that universal information literacy is a distant, if not a receding, goal. A study by the Information School of the University of Washington, in cooperation with the Washington State Library, surveyed through mail, email, telephone, and focus groups a ...
Harry Bruce, Marc Lampson
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Professional Responsibility for Information Privacy

Journal of Information Systems Management, 1985
Abstract Information privacy has emerged as a key international issue among information systems professionals and society in general. In tracing the development of this concern, the author first examines the four stages in which technology is absorbed by society, noting the trend toward increasing dependence on computer systems.
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Information Search for a Professional Service

Journal of Professional Services Marketing, 1995
While the information search component of the consumer decision-making process has been researched extensively in the product context, there is little research on information search for services purchases. This paper identifies different groups of consumers of financial services with particular search patterns.
Geoffrey Soutar, Margaret McNeil
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Professionalism in information processing

Proceedings of the thirteenth annual SIGCPR conference on -, 1975
I am very pleased to be able to speak to you again, after three years, on the subject of professionalism. This talk will be in the nature of an update. My update pertains to the creation and status of a new organization called the INFORMATICS INSTITUTE OF CANADA, a member of which is called an INFORMATICIAN.Over and above this fluidity of job, the ...
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Information and the information professional

Aslib Proceedings, 1991
Librarians are in the fortunate position of having a firm institutional foundation. Books and libraries can exist without librarians or readers, but few would question the nature of libraries as such. Although individual libraries may differ greatly in character, the essence of what a library is remains constant, and there is usually at least a hint of
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The Janus-face of information professionals

Education for Information, 2001
This paper addresses the debate concerning the diverse nature of the information profession and its implications for the information professional. Much of this debate emerged during the discussions generated by the conference on Information Specialists for the 21st Century in Hannover, Germany, in October 1999.
Susan Hornby, Susie Andretta
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Information warfare and the information systems security professional

Computers & Security, 1997
(1997). Information Warfare and the Information Systems Security Professional. Information Systems Security: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 45-55.
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Stress in the information systems professional

The Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Computer Personnel on Research Conference -, 1983
Stress is and always has been a normal part of life. It has both beneficial and harmful effects. The present study examines occupational stress among information systems personnel. A self-report stress and health behavior instrument was completed by 580 respondents in eighteen large corporations in the midwest and southwestern sections of the United ...
John M. Ivancevich, H. Albert Napier, James C. Wetherbe   +2 more
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The information professional in a networked society

Aslib Proceedings, 1998
Society has undergone important changes. This can be perceived in the advances in computer, information and communication technology and the progress made in information science. The use of computers in our daily life, specially in the scope of libraries have pointed out development and possibility to store, to organize and to retrieve information in ...
Laura Ortega Carrasco, Egbert Sanchez Vanderkast   +1 more
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Information History and the Information Professional

Library History, 2004
The author discusses the emergent field of information history and explains how it can help us understand the past development and identity of information professionalism and its links with the more traditional field of librarianship.
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