Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) is one of the most important and indispensable annuals for the information science and technology professional. Since
1966, ARIST has been continuously at the cutting edge in contributing a useful and comprehensive view of information science and technology. ARIST reviews numerous topics within the field and ultimately provides an
annual source of ideas, trends, and references to the literature.
This edition of ARIST covers eight topics as follows:
I. Planning Information Systems and Services Social Intelligence By Blaise Cronin and Elisabeth Davenport
Electronic U.S. Government Information: Policy Issues and Directions
By Peter Hernon and Charles R. McClure Information Gatekeepers
By Cheryl Metoyer-Duran
II. Basic Techniques and Technologies
Speech Synthesis and Speech Recognition: Tomorrow's Human-Computer Interface?
By Holley R. Lange Virtual Reality By Gregory B. Newby
Browsing: A Multidimensional Framework By Shan-Ju Chang and Ronald E. Rice III Applications
Environmental Scanning: Acquisition and Use of Information by Managers
By Chun Wei, Choo and Ethel Auster
IV The Profession Human Resource Management in Library and
Information Services
By Maurice B. Line and Margaret Kinnell
Library and Information Science in the United Kingdom
By Jennifer MacDougall and Michael Brittain ARIST is scholarly, thorough within the scope defined by the
chapter author, up-to-date, well written, and readable by an audience that goes beyond the author's immediate peer group to researchers and practitioners in information science and technology in general and ASIS in
particular. ARIST Volume 28: Annual Review of Information Science and Technology ©1993, 493 pages, Hardbound ISBN: 0-938734-75-X |