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  Chaim Zins, Ph.D.
Department of Human Services, 
University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, Haifa 31905 Israel, 
Phone: 972-4-824-9707 
Fax: 972-4-824-9282 

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Chaim Zins, 
26 Hahaganah St. Jerusalem 97852, Israel 
Phone: 972-2-5816705 
Fax: 972-2-532-5450 
Email: chaimz@research.haifa.ac.il 

  
 
 
Information Science: 
Knowledge organization & Knowledge mapping
Information science theory
Information searching
Information & referral services
Knowledge management 
 

Human Services: 
Conceptualization and knowledge structuring of social welfare and human services.
Social policy.

Education, Judaism & Jewish Education: 
Knowledge structuring of education, Judaism & Jewish education.
 
    Recent Publications

    1.  Zins, C. (2002) Models for Classifying Internet Resources, Knowledge Organization, 29 (1)

    2. Zins, C. (2002). Knowledge outline of Jewish education: A model for design the field. In Cohen, B., & Ofek, A. (eds.), VaYachalom Yosef: Essays in Education and Judaism in Honor of Joseph Lukinsky, New York: Jewish Theological Seminary Press. 

    3.  Zins, C., (2001). Defining human services, Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, 28 (1), 3-21.

    4.   Zins, C. (2001). Knowledge Outline of Jewish Education: Implications for Teacher Education in Israeli College, Study and Research in Teacher Education. 7-8, 67–85. (Hebrew).

    5. Guttmann D., Zins, C., (2000). Subject classification in Logotherapy: A Model for Information- System and Knowledge-Outline Development, Logotherapy and Existential Analysis, 1 (1-2), 91-116 

    6.  Zins, C. & Guttmann D., (2000). Structuring Web bibliographic resources: An exemplary subject classification scheme, Knowledge Organization, 27 (3), 143-159 

    7.  Zins, C. (2000). Success, a structured search strategy: Rationale, principles and implications, Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 51 (13), 1232-1247.

    8.  Zins, C. (1999). Issues and considerations for designing human services studies in Israel, Social Security: Journal of Welfare and Social Security Studies, 55, 83-101 (Hebrew).

    Internet Projects 

    1. Success: A Structured Search Strategy (English& Hebrew).

    2. Information and Referral Services: An Experimental Teaching Site and Public Information & Referral Services (Hebrew)

    3. Classification Schemes of Logotherapy: An Exemplary Web Structured Resource in Human Services

    4. I Accuse: Testimonies from the Eichmann Trial (Hebrew) 

    Articles Submitted for Publication

    1. Zins, C. Knowledge Map of Judaism: Issues, Principles, Implications. (book. Hebrew).

    2.  Zins, C., Knowledge Mapping: an Epistemological Perspective.

    3. Zins, C. & Guttman, D. Domain Analysis: Social Work. 

    4. Zins, C., Redefining Information Science: From Information Science to Knowledge Science. 
     

Current Research

    1.  Zins, C., Knowledge Map of Information Science. 

    This is an interdisciplinary Delphi study sponsored by the Israel Science Foundation, which is affiliated to the Israel Academy of Science.

    2.  Zins, C., Basic Human Services: Services that a State Must Provide.
    This is an interdisciplinary Delphi study with 42 leading Israeli scholars. 

    3.  Zins, C., The Delphi Method: Implications for Information Science.
    The paper was presented in ISKO 7. 

    4.  Zins, C., Portals in Hospitals
    The research is supported by a grant from the Roter Foundation, Macabi Health Services. This is a Delphi study with chief information officers (CIO) in Israeli 7 hospitals.


     
   
 
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Last Updated 20/11/03