On Tue, 7 Apr 1998 9:46:23 +0100
Ian Winship, Univ. Northumbria wrote
>
>The Dearing Report on higher education introduced the concept of
Communications
>and Information Technology (CIT or C&IT or CITs). The public sector
seem to
>reorder the words and talk of ICT. On the other hand, I recollect that
>when Information Technology (IT) was being promoted by the UK
Government in the
>early 80s it was held to be a combination of information and computer
and
>telecommunications technologies (though the technology has always
dominated the
>concept).
>
>Do these terms have distinct meanings, or is ICT/CIT just a a fashion
change -
>a sort of New IT or Cool IT?
>
I think it's just change of fashion, leading to confusion until everyone
get's used to it. I still stick to IT, or sometimes "computing".
What I really object to is IT people or posts simply being referred to
as "information", when they are far more technology-oriented than
information-oriented. Having worked for many years in IT before
switching to librarianship, I am aware of how little IT people know
about many issues concerning information, as well as only being
concerned with a limited range of media which does not include the most
prevalent (print).
Dave Kerry
Librarian, William Booth Memorial Training College
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