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Download full textWilliams, Martha E. – 1971
Information centers exist to provide information from machine-readable data bases to users in industry, universities and other organizations. The computer Search Center of the IIT Research Institute was designed with a number of variables and uncertainties before it. In this paper, the author discusses how the Center was designed to enable it to…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Databases, Information Centers, Information Processing
Peer reviewedAnd Others; Williams, Martha E. – Journal of Library Automation, 1979
Presents MARC database statistics for use in planning and processing files, selection of subsets, and estimating file growth rates. Statistics are provided on record length, field tag occurrence, data element length per field tag, and distribution of records by Dewey Decimal Division and Library of Congress class code. (Author/RAA)
Descriptors: Databases, Information Processing, Information Retrieval, Information Systems
Williams, Martha E. – 1971
The Association of Information Dissemination Centers (ASIDIC) formed the Cooperative Data Management Committee to address the problems of information center operators and data base suppliers. The number of operating centers in the U.S. is limited and their future expansion in numbers and in type of services, will depend on the education of users.…
Descriptors: Abstracting, Administration, Data Processing, Databases
Williams, Martha E.; And Others – 1982
MARC II database statistics and trends from the years 1973-74 to 1980-81 are presented for the benefit of processors of the MARC file who may use the data for planning file structures, selecting subsets of MARC for local processing, estimating processing time based on record sizes, and estimating future file sizes based on growth rates. It is…
Descriptors: Books, Cataloging, Classification, Databases
