Information technology is increasingly gaining importance in the learning process, especially in lifelong learning and education. This is particularly obvious in distant learning, although the web has already entered traditional school, too, and is affecting the changes of the hitherto practised pedagogical communication.
Economy of the information sector and the theory of markets with asymmetric information are presented. It is a matter of two different sub-disciplines and two author clusters in economic sciences under the same name of information economics.
The paper describes the first steps in the introduction of the authority control for personal and corporate names, and editing of the CONOR, V5.1 authority database. It also gives an account on activities related to the preparation of the COBISS General List of Subject Headings.
The usage of XML technology is a common feature of many present-day WWW applications. The article presents certain new aspects in the development of XML technology. More and more XML standards have begun to emerge and have been made implemented. The majority of most important XML specifications has already been standardised.
The paper presents impressions of the Preconference dealing with The Future of Serials Control: Implementation of the MARC21 Holdings Format, and those of the Annual 2001 ALA Conference. Special importance is given to both current holdings standards and issues and plans concerning the implementation of these standards within the serials check-in module of the world’s best known library systems.
This article deals with the design of the web and certain elements of the process leading to the web that is placed on a web server. It addresses a content and organizational aspect of the web, the provision of the web with a site index and a search engine, the web implementation, as well as the inter-linking of web sites.
Social systems theories are always also the critiques of the systems themselves as well as the critiques of other theories of this kind. The information society is a global phenomenon with not only a technological, economic, professional, spatial, cultural and political dimension but also with the dimension of fast changes.
Studying the information behaviour, to which also user studies belong, represents the most fertile point of contact between information science and sociology, psychology and education science. According to their purpose user studies belong to the information science, according to their methods (questionnaire, interview, focus group) they belong to the named older social sciences.
