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Fischer, Audrey; Cole, John Y.; Tarr, Susan M.; Carey, Len; Mehnert, Robert; Sherman, Andrew M.; Davis, Linda; Leahy, Debra W.; Chute, Adrienne; Willard, Robert S.; Dunn, Christina – Bowker Annual Library and Book Trade Almanac, 2003
Includes annual reports from 12 federal agencies and libraries that discuss security, budgets, legislation, digital projects, preservation, government role, information management, personnel changes, collections, databases, financial issues, services, administration, Web sites, access to information, customer service, statistics, international…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Administration, Annual Reports, Budgets
Moore, Laurence J.; Greenwood, Allen G. – Association for Institutional Research, 1984
The history and features of Decision Support Systems (DSS) and use of the approach by academic administrators are discussed. The objective of DSS is to involve the manager/decision maker in the decision-analysis process while simultaneously relieving that person of the burden of developing and performing detailed analysis. DSS represents a…
Descriptors: College Administration, Computer Oriented Programs, Data Processing, Databases
Brown, Kenneth C. – Administrator's Update, 1983
The use of microcomputers by college administrators to increase productivity is discussed. Microcomputers can help increase productivity in the following administrative office tasks: decision support, communication, personal assistance, and task management. One of the most promising developments to emerge from the decision sciences over the past…
Descriptors: Administrators, College Administration, Computer Graphics, Computer Oriented Programs
Lee, Arthur M. – 1979
One of a series of sixteen knowledge transformation papers, this paper deals with the nature and extent of use of evaluative data by administrators in vocational education. First, the following conditions which govern the use of the data are described: availability, reliability, credibility, utility, and consistency. Since the legitimacy of most…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Databases, Evaluation, Evaluation Needs