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Information nation : education and careers in the emerging information professions /

"Information and IT are central to virtually every industry in which the United States plays a leadership role-financial services, entertainment engineering, aerospace, medicine, law, agriculture, and dozens of other fields-yet colleges have failed to attract, teach, and produce a new generatio...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stanton, Jeffrey M., 1961-
Otros Autores: Guzman, Indira R., 1967-, Stam, Kathryn R., 1966-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Medford, N.J. : Information Today, ©2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Wanted : information professionals
  • Information wants to be disorganized
  • Doctor, lawyer, scientist, chief : every profession depends on information
  • Horseshoes to biofuels : why technology development gets easier all the time
  • Where's my job? How outsourcing and offshoring change industries
  • The student perspective on the information field
  • Barriers and challenges : the student perspective
  • The workplace perspective on the information field
  • Barriers and challenges : the workplace perspective
  • Stereotypes, culture, and the information professions
  • Cyberinfrastructure : a long word for the future of information technology
  • The original information professionals
  • To iSchool or not to iSchool
  • Where have all the students gone? Diversity and recruitment challenges in the information professions
  • What's next.