10 articles in this issue
As I mentioned in the previous issue, L1ASAhasapproved the publication of a third issue of SAJLlS.With your support afourth issuecould be considered by L1ASAin 2005. In the meantime, we expect to publish in March, Juneand December.This issue has included ... see more
Veli Jiyane,Dennis N. Ocholla
The article reports on a study that explored the information needs of the rural women and how they are fulfilled in thearea of Melmoth, KwaZulu-Natal. Through a normative survey method and critical incident technique. 109 women wereinterviewed and questio... see more
J. Raju
The article focuses on some of the findings from a comparative study of first level library and/or information sciencequalifications offered at South African universities and technikons. A survey was used through self-administeredquestionnaires to solicit... see more
C. Stilwell
A survey of alumni perceptions of a post graduate programme in Information and Library Science. the B.Bibl. Honours. atthe University of Natal. South Africa is described. Module content and apprapriateness are reviewed in relation todemands of the workpla... see more
Ingrid Henrici
This paper reports on guidelines produced by a postgraduate study on an approach towards the formulation andimplementation of a National Information Policy in South Africa. Topics examined include the reasoning why SA needs aNIP. the proposed philosophica... see more
Myrna Maehet,Elizabeth J Pretorius
In this article family literacy as a strategy to address the problem of a lack of preliteracy skills in preschool children will bediscussed. A family literacy project developed by the Children's Literature Research Unit in the Department ofInformation Sci... see more
Marian Cloete,Retha MMM Snyman
knowledge on the other. Enterprise portals (EPs) are seen as the antidote to these problems by becoming more and more the ultimate knowledge management (KM) tool. The current hype about EPs is focused on their application as KM tools. Very little attentio... see more
J.J. Britz
This book offers a fresh, new look at information, and this approach opens the door to focus on the contemporarydebate on information philosophy and the political economy of information. The book is divided into four segments(which the author refers to as... see more
Caroline E Dean
This second edition retains most of the original chapters of the first, which was published in 1998;but the information hasbeen brought up to date and new topics introduced. The editor acknowledges that there are bound to be gaps in thesubject coverage, b... see more
Dennis N. Ocholla
The publication of this book is a significant contribution to the field of Library and Information Research, largely becauseof the lack of relevant textbooks on this subject at the tertiary level. The book consists of contributions from well-knownLIS rese... see more