A rubber band ethics model for computing and information technology practices.
Abstract: An innovative model for analyzing and describing the role of ethics and the manner in which it is applied in the general field of information technology is presented. Current practices and existing behavior rules that are related to economical and social issues are discussed with specific reference to...

`Open relationships, de-facto marriages, or shotgun weddings?': the convergence and integration of libraries ad computing/information technology services within Australia universities.
A complex change management process is currently underway in many Australian universities. It involves the convergence and/ or integration of library, computing and IT services. The process has profound implications for reference and information services and their clients, as evidenced by the recent increase in library literature both for...

Mobile computing changing the traditional ways of organizingthe Construction Company.
INTRODUCTION The construction industry can undoubtedly be defined as one of the most information-dependent industries (1). Besides huge evolution in the field of information technology had a significant effect in this particular business. Unfortunately such doesn't prove to be the case, and currently most construction operations are...

End-user computing strategy: an examination of its impact on end-user satisfaction.
ABSTRACT Organizational attitudes and expectations regarding end-user computing (EUC) have changed radically in the past 25 years and have researchers describing end-user computing as a vital component of the overall information resource in the organization. Throughout this period of unprecedented growth from limited desktop computing to near-saturation...

Utility computing SLA management based upon business objectives.
It has become increasingly desirable for companies worldwide to outsource their computing resources, e-business applications, and business processes, to focus on the growth of their core competency and to competitively improve their productivity by exploiting leading-edge computing technologies. Aiming at capitalizing on this information technology (IT) outsourcing trend, leading...

Digital Crossroads: American Telecommunications Policy in the Internet Age.
Digital Crossroads: American Telecommunications Policy in the Internet Age By Jonathan E. Nuechterlein and Philip J. Weiser Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2005. Pp. xvii, 670. $40.00 cloth. Revolutionary improvements in computing and information technology, falling prices for equipment and services, and rapidly changing industry structures have turned...

Central scientific research institute No. 24 of the Russian Defense Ministry: evolution, development.
The country's postwar economic reconstruction and development of all spheres, including the military sphere, required the introduction of the latest scientific and technological achievements, above all in the sphere of control and management. The development of cybernetics in the Soviet Union entered the stage of intensive growth in the...

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's ... enterprises to the rescue! Stepping in where they claim schools are failing to act, leading technology companies are funding endowments to support teaching 21st-century skills to tomorrow's workforce.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] There's probably no better example of Alexis de Tocqueville's observation about America's tendency to pursue an "enlightened self-interest" than the high-tech industry's investment in K-12 education. Computer and information technology companies are among the most generous and inventive corporate contributors to American schools today. Many...

Australian professional library and information education: structural changes in the 1990s.
ABSTRACT Impacts of the substantial changes in Australian higher education during the 1990's on LIS professional education are discussed. The study draws on documentary and statistical data from the annual returns of LIS schools to the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) to review trends in graduation rates, staffing...

Library & Information Sciences. (Abstracts-2003 Annual Meetings).
Library and IT Collaboration to Create the Next Generation Tech Support Center. Anthony S. Guardado and Mark A. Christel, Hope College, Van Wylen Library, Holland, Ml 49423; guardadoa@hope.edu, christelm@hope.edu During the summer of 2001, Hope College's library and the Department of Computing and Information Technology (CIT) merged...