This article intends to discuss Information Technology diploma programs as an alternate means of educating systems librarians and preparing them for the new challenges faced by library systems offices. The first section outlines my own experience marrying an MLIS with a Graduate Diploma in Information Technology as a means of moving into systems librarianship. The second discusses the applicati...

This paper uses hypothetical contractarianism to consider the value of children’s rights laws as a means of protecting children. Laws protecting children from their parents have the unintended but predictable consequence of making child-rearing less desirable for some parents and thereby reducing the number of children born. Such laws therefore produce a trade-off between the expected wellbeing...

a baby's own mother." She confesses that to begin with, in spite of her college training, she was "a novice at baby culture," but adds in extenuation of her shortcomings, that if she were "going in for chickens, or pigs, there would be schools, universities, and government pamphlets galore at her service, but when she would raise only a human baby, universities and government bureaus are silent...

For Regional Transportation Systems Brad Fitzgibbons, Richard Fujimoto, Randall Guensler, Michael Hunter, Alfred Park, Hao Wu Georgia Institute of Technology