The objective of this study was to gain enough familiarity with developments in artificial intelligence (AI) and related technologies to be able to advise the information service community on what can be applied today and what one might reasonably expect to be applicable to library and information services in the near future. The emphasis is on…

Local job banks, computer aided man-job matching systems, are the spearhead of the multiphased Federal program to improve the functioning of the labor market information system. As evaluated here, the program may eventually achieve this objective but the evidence concerning the first phase is not encouraging. (DS)

This article is a proposal to reduce the rapidly increasing unemployment problems throughout the world and, simultaneously, to strive to facilitate economic balance between developing and developed countries. (Author)

A file management system provides a powerful search tool for library reference groups. The system described produces current awareness and retrospective searches from diverse data bases. The same query language is used to interrogate all data bases in on-line or batch mode searches. (4 references) (Author/DH)

Describes the use of a basic language program to calculate and report grades, especially to counsel students about their progress. Indicates that students' weaknesses or strengths are determinable through estimates of their future grade performance. (CC)

Summary of job openings in the States distributed to U.S. bases in the Far East, Europe, and the U.S. (Editor)

Described is an interim report on a study designed to improve the system of records in the School Health Service of the City of New York. (Author)

A closet drama describing how a father's concern that his son learn creative and communicative writing in grade school is frustrated by a computerized, depersonalized program which stresses all writing problems are really reading problems." (DE)

Reviews Miami-Dade Community College's four-phase student flow model, which involves admission and assessment; advisement and counseling; competency monitoring via the school's academic alert support, supplemental educational services support, academic progress support, and advisement graduation information systems; and the Emphasis on Excellence…

Describes an interactive videodisc application program developed to train army medics. Indicates that reduced instructor teaching time and a high degree of student satisfaction in mastering complex, high-stress tasks are the optimum results achieved by the program. (JN)

Discussion of the scheduling procedures of librarians' hours at the reference desk at the Rutherford Humanities and Social Sciences Library, University of Alberta, highlights services provided, the preference table system, and manual scheduling versus computer scheduling. (EJS)