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Dominick, Wayne D.; Weathers, Peggy G. – Drexel Library Quarterly, 1982
This overview of potential for utilizing database management systems (DBMS) within numeric database environments highlights: (1) major features, functions, and characteristics of DBMS; (2) applicability to numeric database environment needs and user needs; (3) current applications of DBMS technology; and (4) research-oriented and…
Descriptors: Databases, Information Needs, Information Retrieval, Information Science
Peer reviewedChang, Ai-Mei; And Others – Information Processing and Management, 1994
Presents a hyperknowledge framework of decision support systems (DSS). This framework formalizes specifics about system functionality, representation of knowledge, navigation of the knowledge system, and user-interface traits as elements of a DSS environment that conforms closely to human cognitive processes in decision making. (Contains 52…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Data Processing, Decision Making, Decision Support Systems
Peer reviewedDalrymple, Prudence W.; Roderer, Nancy K. – Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST), 1994
Highlights the changes that have occurred from 1987-93 in database access systems. Topics addressed include types of databases, including CD-ROMs; enduser interface; database selection; database access management, including library instruction and use of primary literature; economic issues; database users; the search process; and improving…
Descriptors: Database Management Systems, Databases, Economic Factors, Information Retrieval
Peer reviewedHomer, Garth – Canadian Library Journal, 1986
Examines the characteristics of management information systems and their impact on decisions of senior library managers. The organizational feasibility of such systems is discussed in terms of four key components--economic, technical, structural, psychological--that are related to libraries in general and senior management decisions in particular.…
Descriptors: Administrators, Computer Oriented Programs, Decision Making, Library Administration
