Browse Faculty and Staff Research and Scholarship - Information Sciences by Issue Date

  • User Models for Free in Second Language Learning? 
    Bruce, Bertram C. (1986)
    Commentary on VP2: The role of user modelling in correcting errors in second language learning by Ethel Schuster.

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  • User friendly future: Applications of new information technology 
    Smith, Linda C. (Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1986)
    This paper considers the clinic theme, "What Is User Friendly?" from a scientific and technical perspective. As Burch has observed in the introduction to a bibliography on computer ergonomics and user friendly design, the ...

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  • Written expression 
    Bruce, Bertram C.; Cameron, Ann; Eigler, Gunther; Frase, Lawrence; de Glopper, Kees; Miyake, Naomi; Sharples, Mike; Vahapassi, Anneli; Wesdorp, Hildo; Woods, Claire (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 1987)
    We are in the midst of not one, but two, revolutions in education. The first exemplified by the present OECD project, concerns the impact of New Information Technologies on teaching and on our understanding of the learning ...

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  • An Examination of the Role of Computers in Teaching Language and Literature 
    Bruce, Bertram C. (National Council of Teachers of English, 1987)
    Computers and language are intimately connected in four ways: (1) the computer is a tool for representing knowledge through symbols, (2) it is a device for interpreting symbolic structures, (3) it is a communication device, ...

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  • Tom Jones: The Comedy of Knowledge 
    Unsworth, John (1987-09)

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  • From Data Processing to Knowledge Engineering: The Impact of Automation on Public Services 
    Smith, Linda C. (Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1988)
    The title of this paper is a reminder that, although the name of the Clinic has remained the same for the past 25 years, the goals and means for the application of automation to public services have evolved. Although ...

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  • From Flow Charting to User Friendly: Technical Services Functions in Retrospect 
    Henderson, William T.; Henderson, Kathryn Luther (Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1988)
    In this presentation, the proceedings of the twenty-four preceding Clinics on Library Applications of Data Processing will be summarized to give a flavor of the issues and themes relating to technical services functions which ...

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  • The Literacies Institute: Its mission, activities, and perspective on literacy 
    Bruce, Bertram C.; Gee, James Paul; Michaels, Sarah (Education Development Center, 1989)
    Literacy is a prerequisite for full participation in a modern, technological society. For the nation, broad-based literacy is a prerequisite for the effective functioning of democratic institutions at home and for ...

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  • Orchestrating Reception: The Hierarchy of Readers in Post-modern American Fiction 
    Unsworth, John (1990)
    Any essay which addresses itself to "post-modern American fiction" has at least two things to explain at the outset: its understanding of the terminology it uses, and its focus on the American scene. There has been ...

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  • A Bibliography of the works of Paul Otlet 
    Rayward, W. Boyd (Elsevier for the International Federation of DocumentationMundaneum, Mons, Belgium (2017), 1990)
    A classified bibliography of the writing of Paul Otlet (including newspaper journalism) from 1882-1944. Original edition 1990; revised and expanded 2017.

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  • International Organisation and Dissemination of Knowledge: Selected Essays of Paul Otlet 
    Otlet, Paul (Elsevier for the International Federation of Documentation, 1990)
    These translations of a selection of Paul Otlet's writings have been a long time in preparation. Now put down, now taken up again over a period of ten years or so in Chicago, London and Sydney, they are dispatched at ...

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  • The Book Market II 
    Unsworth, John (New York: Columbia UP, 1991)
    The literary marketplace has always had three essential elements: authorship, publishing and audience. Each of these has been shaped by market forces from the very beginning, and each in its own way has mirrored the ...

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  • Postmodern Culture: Publishing in the Electronic Medium 
    Amiran, Eyal; Unsworth, John (1991)
    Postmodern Culture was founded in 1990 by Eyal Amiran, Greg Dawes, Elaine Orr, and John Unsworth at North Carolina State University (professors Dawes and Orr have subsequently stepped down as editors in order to pursue ...

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  • Practicing Post-Modernism: The Example of John Hawkes 
    Unsworth, John (1991)
    "The excitement of contemporary studies is that all of its critical practitioners and most of their subjects are alive and working at the same time. One work influences another, bringing to the field a spirit of competition ...

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  • Refereed Electronic Journals and the Future of Scholarly Publishing 
    Amiran, Eyal; Orr, Elaine; Unsworth, John (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press Inc., 1991)
    Electronic publishing, formerly an idea whose elegant utility one could only admire in the abstract, has in recent years become possible. Several electronic journals are now published regularly, in science, business ...

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  • Networked Academic Publishing and the Rhetorics of Its Reception 
    Amiran, Eyal; Unsworth, John; Chaski, Carole (1992)
    Electronic publishing is part of what Mark Poster calls a cultural shift from "print-wrapped language" to "electronically wrapped language" (11), and it is here to stay. But just what is inside the wrapping? What does this ...

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  • Managing the Work of Support Staff 
    Estabrook, Leigh S.; Mason, Lisa; Suelflow, Sara (Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1992)

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  • William Gass's The Tunnel: The Work in Progress as Post-Modern Genre 
    Unsworth, John (1992)
    In Le Postmoderne expliqué aux enfants, Jean-François Lyotard says that, like myths, the "metanarratives" of modernity -- the work-ethic, faith in technological progress, the Christian doctrine of salvation -- . . ...

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  • Innovation and social change 
    Bruce, Bertram C. (Cambridge University Press, 1993)
    We view an innovation as the manifestation of a set of beliefs and values about change. Thus when we refer to the innovation, we include not only pieces of software or hardware, but also all of those documents and practices ...

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  • Censorship, Negative Criticism, Glitzy Trends, Growing Publisher Output, and Other Shadows on the Landscape of Children's Book Reviewing: A Panel Discussion 
    Cooper, Ilene; Hearne, Betsy; Jones, Trevelyn; Long, Joanna Rudge; Silvey, Anita (Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1993)
    Panel discussion on book reviewing in children's literature at Evaluating children’s books : a critical look : aesthetic, social, and political aspects of analyzing and using children’s books (Papers presented at the ...

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