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Gaydos, Irvin A. – 1976
The twelve tables in this study represent the results of a Fall 1975 survey of the 589 operating school districts in the State of New Jersey to determine the status of computer and data entry equipment utilization. Results show that the number of users of this equipment increased noticeably, primarily in administrative processing areas such as…
Descriptors: Data Processing, Electronic Equipment, Equipment Utilization, Facility Inventory
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Bamford, Harold E., Jr. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1979
Describes an operational trial of computer-aided information processing methods conducted by a National Science Foundation program office in an effort to show that staff productivity increases with computer augmentation. (FM)
Descriptors: Computers, Information Processing, Information Systems, Organizational Effectiveness
Yu, Clement; Sharma, Prasoon; Meng, Weiyi; Qin, Yan – 2001
This paper considers the processing of digital library queries, consisting of a text component and a structured component in distributed environments. The paper concentrates on the processing of the structured component of a distributed query. A method is proposed to identify the databases that are likely to be useful for processing any given…
Descriptors: Data Processing, Databases, Electronic Libraries, Information Processing
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
Cashin, William E.; Slawson, Hugh M. – 1977
The data and computational procedures used by the IDEA system at Kansas State University (during the 1976-77 academic year) to interpret ratings of teacher performance are described in this technical report. The computations for each of the seven parts (evaluation, course description, students' self ratings, methods, additional questions,…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, College Students, Comparative Analysis
Palmer, Crescentia – 1976
A comparison of costs for computer-based searching of Psychological Abstracts and Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) systems by the New York State Library at Albany was produced by combining data available from search request forms and from bills from the contract subscription service, the State University of New…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computers, Cost Effectiveness, Costs
Cashin, William E.; Slawson, Hugh M. – 1977
The data and computational procedures used by the IDEA System during the 1977-78 academic year at Kansas State University to interpret ratings of teacher performance are described in this technical report. The computations for each of the seven parts (evaluation, course description, students' self-ratings, methods, additional questions, diagnostic…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, College Students, Comparative Analysis
Cashin, William E.; Perrin, Bruce M. – 1978
The data and computational procedures used by the IDEA System to generate IDEA Reports from information collected on the Standard Form of the IDEA Survey Form are described in this technical report. The computations for each of the seven parts of the IDEA Report are explained. The data base used for this 1978-79 Kansas State University study…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, College Students, Comparative Analysis