Information Nation: Education and Careers in the Emerging Information Professions by Jeffrey M. Stanton,Indira R. Guzman,and Kathryn R. Stam

The Future Voices in Public Services column is a forum for students in graduate library and information science programs to discuss key issues they see in academic library public services, to envision what they feel librarians in public service have to offer to academia, to tell us of their visions for the profession, or to tell us of research that is going on in library schools. We hope to provide fresh perspectives from those entering our field, in both the United States and other countries. Interested faculty of graduate library and information science programs, who would like their students' ideas represented in these pages, are invited to contact Nancy H. Dewald at nxd7@psu.edu.

Marissa K. Mason is an MSIS student specializing in archives and records management at the University at Albany's Department of Information Studies. In this essay, she discusses the opportunities and challenges of using various social media for promotional outreach of archives and special collections.

The University at Albany's Department of Information Studies, part of the College of Computing and Information, offers a broad-based Master of Science in Information Science degree accredited by the American Library Association. The program has concentrations in library and information services, archives and records administration, school library media, information management and policy, and information systems and technology. Students learn how information is created, organized, represented, stored, accessed, retrieved, managed and used. In addition, they investigate the uses and impacts of information and technology on individuals, organizations and society, including formal and informal communities, libraries, government, and business. A required internship course helps ensure that the program's graduates are ready to enter the world of information professionals. For more information, see http://www.albany.edu/informationstudies/index.php

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Information: Concept,categories, and ambivalent nature. Philosophical essays

The conceptions of information developed in Soviet philosophy are critically conceived, and the information approach accepted in scientific, research, and practical activities is characterized. The state-of-the-art system of information concepts and categories is analyzed, and the trend of the development of the common scientific information category into the philosophical area is presented. The ambivalent nature of information is proved from the point of view of realistic philosophy.     

GILS,Government Information Locator Service: Blending Old and New to Access U.S. Governmental Information

Summary

U.S. government information resources, because of their vast quantity and lack of organization, and because of redundancies among agencies, have never been simple to locate. A budding electronic system, the Government Information Locator Service (GILS), is beginning to put structure into government information as well as to provide online pointers to government resources. This workshop explained the legislation behind the making of GILS, described its mission, and demonstrated actual searches for government information using the locator service.     

O.K. for Information:

The DaDer reDorts a studv of the information seeking behavior of membek bf 52 'c~mmunityr~anizations in a suburbai communirv in Svdnev, Australia. It considers the significance of the findings fbr public library information services tosuch organiza- tions, with particular reference lo differences between librarians' and organization members' perceptions of "information"; the irn- portance of networks and mutuality in organizations' information seeking; and the desirability and feasibility of public libraries inter- vening to improve the information processes of community organi- zations.     

美国政府信息资源再利用:立法、实践与思考

本文介绍了美国政府信息资源再利用的主要立法,分析了保障法律执行的措施,探讨了推进信息资源再利用的部分经验,并就发展我国政府信息资源再利用事业提出若干建议。     

数字信息环境下的图书情报服务: 挑战、应变与再造

分析了数字信息主流化、学术交流体系重组、用户工作空间数字化和数字图书馆范式演变等信息环境变化趋势，描述了图书馆界通过重组传统服务、拓展服务内容、构造基于用户的服务机制等应变措施，最后指出根本性出路还在于从知识管理和知识服务角度再造图书情报服务。     

A Review of: “Understanding Healthcare Information. Robinson,Lyn.”

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) as a health care practice is being incorporated into education programs across the spectrum of medical education to develop lifelong learning skills and to enhance the practice of evidence-based health care. Since improving the quality of patient care is the ultimate goal of EBM, EBM learning must be integrated with clinical application, and resulted outcomes must be reflected in learning transfer (or EBM practice) within the context of solving patient problems. Different factors may constitute the context or environment in which EBM is learned, practiced, and sustained. However, these contextual factors are seldom considered and examined in the development, implementation, and evaluation of EBM instruction for learners at different levels. This article will introduce several contextual factors as tips and strategies that affect EBM learning and transfer. Also included in the article are recommended practices for designing effective EBM instruction that would contribute to a sustainable change in learner behavior.