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Cote, L. G. – 1974
A system in which the function of the library is to acquire, store, and organize materials is proposed which separates the reference function into a group of subject specialists backed up by computerized information retrieval systems. This division of labor is caused by the scientific community's need for access to graphic and other specific (not…
Descriptors: Databases, Information Networks, Library Services, National Programs
And Others; Batteke, J. P. H. – Information Storage and Retrieval, 1974
Descriptors: Databases, Information Networks, Information Services, Information Systems
Clinton, Marshall – Online, 1978
Libraries in Canada can now access the Telenet and Tymnet networks through a Canadian telecommunications network called DATAPAC. One library's trial use of DATAPAC, USER/network interaction, system messages and meanings, communications costs, impact on online searching in Canada, and the Canadian data bases which will now be accessible to users in…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Costs, Databases, Foreign Countries
Gillies, Donald J. – 1983
This report summarizes the results of an international survey on the utilization of videotex and teletext which covered 20 countries, including Canada, Great Britain, France, Holland, Switzerland, the United States, and West Germany. Included are: (1) definitions and a comparison of the two media; (2) the methods used to collect the data…
Descriptors: Computers, Databases, Foreign Countries, Information Networks
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Ember, George – Journal of Chemical Documentation, 1973
The Technical Information Service of the National Research Council of Canada and several other information retrieval activities in Ottawa and elsewhere are components of a nation-wide network which is developing into a coherent Canadian Scientific and Technological Information Dissemination System. (21 references) (Author/NH)
Descriptors: Databases, Foreign Countries, Information Dissemination, Information Networks
Consumers' Association of Canada, Ottawa (Ontario). – 1971
The possibility of creating in Canada a non-profit community information network (a set of linked data banks containing information for use by the general public) should be explored. A network to link together a set of data banks containing information for general public use would have the following merits: (1) By its effect on household…
Descriptors: Computers, Databases, Information Dissemination, Information Needs
Canadian Network Papers, 1983
This preliminary report describes the work to date of the Task Group on Computer/Communication protocols for Bibliographic Data Interchange, which was formed in 1980 to develop a set of protocol standards to facilitate communication between heterogeneous library and information systems within the framework of Open Systems Interconnection (OSI). A…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Computer Oriented Programs, Databases, Foreign Countries
Rosen, Lynn M.; Owen, G. W. Brian – 1981
This design phase study concerning the proposed replication of the DOBIS system for the British Columbia Library Network (BCLN) was conducted to determine the preferred strategy for the transfer and loading of the British Columbia Union Catalogue (BCUC) database currently resident at the University of Toronto's UTLAS system. User and database…
Descriptors: Costs, Databases, Design, Foreign Countries
Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Network Development and MARC Standards Office. – 1989
The first half of the proceedings consists of three papers presented during the program session of a Library of Congress Network Advisory Committee (NAC) meeting. The first, a background paper by Robert L. Oakley, identifies some of the problems that modern information technology has created for the intellectual property system in the United…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Computer Networks, Computer Software, Copyrights
Department of External Affairs, Ottawa (Ontario). – 1983
This promotional brochure, one of 10 in a series on videotex, explains applications of videotex and the North American Presentation Level Protocol Syntax (NAPLPS) standard system (known as Telidon in Canada) for creating, storing, and transmitting text and color graphics information on a television screen or computer terminal. The specific…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Computer Graphics, Databases, Display Systems
Duchesne, R. M.; And Others – 1980
The two purposes of this report are to present concrete proposals related to the need for the National Library of Canada to facilitate the development of nationwide bibliographic and associated communications networks, and to outline the relevant network concepts assumed in framing the nine recommendations and the related implementation proposals…
Descriptors: Databases, Information Networks, Information Services, Information Systems
Beglo, Jo Nordley; Campbell, Cyndie – 2000
"Artists in Canada" is a bilingual union list of documentation files on Canadian artists held by the National Gallery of Canada Library and by 22 libraries and art galleries across the country. More than 42,700 artists are represented in "Artists in Canada," with biographical information, as well as locations for files.…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Artists, Biographies, Databases
JEM Research, Victoria (British Columbia). – 1982
In 1982 a study was conducted to analyze educational software information currently available to Canadian educators and to develop a plan for effectively collecting, organizing, and disseminating courseware information in the future. The teachers, students, librarians, educational resource personnel, and administrators included in the study…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Catalogs, Check Lists, Computer Programs
Hruday, Connie; And Others – 1986
This document is designed to assist the Council of Educational Facility Planners International (CEFP/I) in planning for the establishment of an information system for its members and other stakeholders who need information on educational facilities. The report focuses on the major activities to be accomplished and the issues to be considered when…
Descriptors: Databases, Educational Facilities Planning, Foreign Countries, Information Networks
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Brown, F. Barry – Educational and Training Technology International, 1990
Describes telecommunications developments in Saskatchewan that culminated in SCAN, the Saskatchewan Communications Advanced Network. The use of SCAN for equal access to information highlights distance education; community television; cultural information; education services; access to computer databases; the development of a Public Broadcast…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Cable Television, Cultural Education, Databases
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