Information Science in Social Work Education: The NCSW Approach

Abstract

Human knowledge is piling up its consequences faster than we can cope with them. Important documents now in circulation are unorganized and the cost in terms of dollars and man-hours of research is staggering. But major disciplines are using nontraditional retrieval techniques with great promise of success. The NCSW, with the assistance of the Ohio State University School of Social Work and the Central Ohio Chapter of the American Society for Information Science, has adopted several documentation techniques for social welfare literature. The problems of information handling in education and a description of the techniques used to meet some of these problems are discussed in this article.