The trend toward on-line utilization of computers in recent years has included the emergence of computer support systems to fill the information processing needs of individuals engaged in scientific research. In this study, a new approach to document description is applied to the design of a personal information storage and retrieval system,…

A prototype package of interactive computer programs for automating the information processing needs of the academic advisor in large educational systems is described in this report. This on-line filing (OLF) package is basically a program which retrieves an existing student record and allows easy interaction with a set of subroutines that perform…