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Lor, Peter Johan; Britz, Johannes J. (Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap & Kuns, 2015)Libraries and peace: a critical reflection on the role of libraries in promoting peace From the mid-19th century national and international library associations and professional librarianship developed in close association ...
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Britz, Johannes J.; Lor, Peter Johan; Bothma, T.J.D. (Theodorus Jan Daniel) (Elsevier, 2007-06)This article deals with a proposed initiative to train library managers on the African continent. It is argued that such an education initiative will contribute to the socio-economic development of Africa. Issues addressed ...
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Ocholla, Dennis N.; Onyancha, Omwoyo Bosire; Britz, Johannes J. (Elsevier, 2010-05)The term ‘information ethics’ (IE) is rapidly diversifying as new technologies enter the milieu and add to already existing ‘entanglements’. Unsurprisingly, the term lacks a universally accepted definition, although there ...
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Lor, Peter Johan; Britz, Johannes J. (Blackwell, 2007-09)In the context of the follow-up work arising from the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), this paper attempts to answer the questions: Why should librarians and information workers be involved in international ...
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Bothma, T.J.D. (Theodorus Jan Daniel); Britz, Johannes J. (2007-09-25)
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Britz, Johannes J. (University of Pretoria, 2006)Information poverty is one of the main forms of poverty today that affects the lives of billions of people on a daily basis and as such it is argued in this thesis that this form of poverty should be on the world’s moral ...
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Ponelis, S.R. (Shana Rachel); Britz, Johannes J. (Unisa Press, 2013)Although it is widely agreed that business intelligence (BI) plays an important role to ensure that information is available consistently and disseminated to organisational decision-makers, many authors point out that ...
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Britz, Johannes J.; Ponelis, S.R. (Shana Rachel); Lor, Peter Johan (University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2013-12)Information policy formulation is not only a matter of politics and policies. In this article it is argued that national information policies are also about ethics and that the moral complexities and challenges associated ...
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Ethical perspective on political-economic issues in the long-term preservation of digital heritage Lor, Peter Johan; Britz, Johannes J. (Wiley, 2012-11)The article provides an overview of the main ethical and associated political-economic aspects of the preservation of born-digital content and the digitization of analogue content for purposes of preservation. The ...
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Britz, Johannes J. (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2001)Information poverty does not only pertain to the lack of essential information, but can also be defined as a condition of life where the majority of people within a specific context do not have the means nor the skills ...
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Britz, Johannes J. (Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap & Kuns, 2005-06)This article focuses on three of the main ethical questions facing the cyber era, namely privacy, information poverty and the relationship between the right of access to information and the right of ownership thereof. The ...
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Bester, Coetzee; Britz, Johannes J.; Merkestein, A. (Department of Knowledge and Information Management, University of Johannesburg, 2008-03)The first section of the article focuses on the need for development in Africa and the specific challenges of development operations. It describes the need for a holistic and integrated information management model as ...
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Britz, Johannes J.; De Villiers, D.E. (Dawid Etienne) (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2003)The article deals with the moral responsibility of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) concerning the distribution of information in the virtual world, seen from the perspective of Christian Ethics. A number of case studies ...
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Lor, Peter Johan; Britz, Johannes J. (Walter de Gruyter, 2011-03)This paper addresses the changes in the role of librarians as information intermediaries due to the introduction of new forms of digital content brought about by modem information and communication technologies. The main ...
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Lor, Peter Johan; Wiles, Bradley; Britz, Johannes J. (De Gruyter, 2021-02)The COVID-19 pandemic is an international public health crisis without precedent in the last century. The novelty and rapid spread of the virus have added a new urgency to the availability and distribution of reliable ...
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Britz, Johannes J.; Lor, Peter Johan (University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2010-12)This article considers the origins and essence of human rights, the requirement that people should have access to information in order to participate in society and develop their human capacity, and the relationship ...
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Holmner, Marlene Amanda; Britz, Johannes J. (Unisa Press, 2011)Many developed countries claim today the status of knowledge societies, since they have invested heavily in human capacity building as well as in the development of an efficient information infrastructure that is supported ...
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Rowe, J.; Britz, Johannes J. (Unisa Press, 2009)This article focuses on the importance and value of marketing planning. The purpose is to guide librarians who are involved in the planning and implementation of marketing for their libraries. The different components or ...
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Ponelis, S.R. (Shana Rachel); Britz, Johannes J. (Department of Knowledge and Information Management, University of Johannesburg, 2004-12)Information economics forms part of the discipline of Economics. Often information science curricula also include Information Economics as a separate course or as a component of an Information Science course. Although ...
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Ponelis, S.R. (Shana Rachel); Britz, Johannes J. (Elsevier, 2008-12)With the development of new information and communication technologies, the right to communicate assumes new dimensions, since it is almost impossible to fully participate in the globalized world without access to modern ...
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