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Download full textRosenfeld, Samuel A.; Sable, Jerome – 1969
The report discusses the file management requirements of a computer-based information storage and retrieval system for the Language Information Network and Clearinghouse System (LINCS). It discusses a hypothetical structure for the LINCS system, requirements of file management, long-range trends in data management technology of interest to the…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Data Processing, Databases, Information Needs
Roberts, A. Hood – 1969
A discussion of communication within the field of language sciences looks at the existing system of communication, noting some of the major problems and outlining some special and strategic problems facing those who design future information systems in this area. The report begins by describing the language sciences community and its communication…
Descriptors: Clearinghouses, Communication Problems, Information Needs, Information Networks
Peer reviewedTarapanoff, Kira; Alvares, Lillian – Information Development, 1995
Discusses the interdependence of telecommunications and information sciences in Brazil. Highlights include new technologies and telecommunications: satellites, fiber optic cables, data communication networks, information superhighways, and cooperative projects; and information services development. (AEF)
Descriptors: Communications Satellites, Cooperation, Developing Nations, Development
Lindsay, John – 1986
This study was performed to discern the feasibility of a Pan-African Network of Social Science Information and Documentation Centres and Services that would serve the regions covered by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the Economic Commission for Western Asia (ECWA). This report on the study outlines the various forms networking can…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Developing Nations, Feasibility Studies, Foreign Countries
Crowther, Warren – 1984
This article addresses the conditions of developing countries which must be taken into account in developing information strategies for their public and educational institutions or projects. Its central argument is that newer information science concepts, although they demand technological and conceptual sophistication, can be useful in the…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Developing Nations, Human Resources, Information Needs
Peer reviewedLunin, Lois F. (Ed.); Ball, Marion J. (Ed.) – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1988
Various aspects of the Integrated Academic Information Management System (IAIMS) initiative sponsored by the National Library of Medicine are explored in 10 articles. An overview of the program, the technologies involved, examples of implementation, approaches to integrated information systems, and the future of the program are discussed. (CLB)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Change Strategies, Cost Effectiveness, Grants
