VIEW FROM THE CLASSROOM — PART TWO

Abstract

In the last issue, second year undergraduate students taking the Information and Society option at the Department of Library and Information Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK contributed their thoughts about the developments they would expect by the year 2000. Their ideas were presented as the course started The option covers the following topics: definition of the information society; historical perspectives; industrialisation of society and the concept of a post‐industrial society; scenarios for the future; forecasting social and technological change; demographics; trends in research and development for LIS; the virtual librarian; and implications for professional education and continuing development. Three students who wrote down their thoughts at the beginning of the course agreed to write a second contribution which reflected their thinking at the end of the option. It was felt that this might show how thinking could have been changed and developed as a result of the course taught.

Citation

Keenan, S. (1995), "VIEW FROM THE CLASSROOM — PART TWO", Online and CD-Rom Review, Vol. 19 No. 6, pp. 341-343. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb024552