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Download full textGoldfine, Alan H., Ed. – 1982
This workshop investigated how managers can evaluate, select, and effectively use information resource management (IRM) tools, especially data dictionary systems (DDS). An executive summary, which provides a definition of IRM as developed by workshop participants, precedes the keynote address, "Data: The Raw Material of a Paper Factory,"…
Descriptors: Data Processing, Databases, Information Needs, Information Services
Intergovernmental Bureau for Informatics, Rome (Italy). – 1979
This conference report presents the discussions and recommendations of the 290 participants representing 76 nations who met at the first SPIN conference to exchange experiences in strategies and policies for the dissemination of information via networks based on the linking of computers with telecommunications, and to identify ways and means of…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Computers, Databases, Developing Nations
Johnson, Margaret; And Others – 1990
This report on a machine-readable data files workshop highlights unresolved issues related to innovative approaches to collecting, describing, and providing service for computer files in research libraries. The remarks of four of the workshop speakers are presented. Margaret Johnson of the University of Minnesota gives a comprehensive review of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Cataloging, Classification
Brown, George H.; Faupel, Elizabeth M. – 1987
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and the Longitudinal Studies Program (LSP) are major survey projects on educational outcomes performed by the Center for Education Statistics. NAEP is a continuing cross-sectional survey of young Americans' skills, knowledge, and attitudes. The LSP studies follow a sample of students as they…
Descriptors: Conferences, Cross Sectional Studies, Data Collection, Databases
Dickson, Ian, Ed.; Dwyer, Lisa, Ed. – 1991
The 18 papers presented at this conference address national information policies, information for industry, and electronic publishing. The titles of the papers are as follows: (1) "Industrial Information Policies of Developing Countries" (keynote address, Sung Jin Choi); (2) "National Information Policy. Current Trends and…
Descriptors: Databases, Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Electronic Publishing
Higher Colleges of Technology, Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates). – 2000
This document contains a total of 57 welcoming speeches, theme addresses, seminar and workshop papers, and poster sessions that were presented at a conference on technological education and national development. The papers explore the ways technology and technological advances have both necessitated and enabled changes in the way education is…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Articulation (Education)
