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.
The article addresses the issue of the cataloguing rules used in Slovenia within the COBISS shared cataloguing system. The outdated cataloguing codes (PPIAK, AIK), and undocumented updates, modifications, and cataloguing practice from the last 14 years have created in the time of high-speed technological changes more and more difficulties in the development and operation of the COBISS system.
Within the framework of the Ministry of Science and Technology the Branch Information Centres for biomedicine, biotechniques, social sciences, humanities, natural sciences and engineering have taken on a task to prepare a general unified list of subject headings for the COBISS system.
Searching the Web and the Internet may be ineffective when we use improper search tools and do not understand the basics about these tools. The situation changes noticeably when we have basic skills which allow us both to select search tools suitable for us and make better use of them.
The conception of translation and translating methods has been changing since Saint Jarome, though the general definition of translation as the transfer of message and its content in one language into another language remains valid. Erroneous perspectives concerning the role of translators can be disturbing to their work.
Despite having published numerous works as information scientist in the English language between 1958 and 1980, and literature on him too, so that there is no languge barrier, today, Božo Težak is only locally known as the founder of the information science (informatology) in Croatia.
Back in the nineteen sixties, Božo Težak already did much for taking a clinical approach as one of the conditions required for professional functioning and performance of library and information education.
