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Download full textBarker, Philip – Microprocessing and Microprogramming, 1985
A videodisc system provides a means of storing substantial volumes of pictorial information. Individual pictures and sequences of images may be accessed directly thereby providing many novel approaches to image retrieval and display. When combined with an interactive computer system, a videodisc is able to create a useful tool to aid the…
Descriptors: Authoring Aids (Programing), Information Dissemination, Information Retrieval, Information Storage
Peer reviewedGale, John C.; And Others – Information Technology and Libraries, 1985
This four-article section focuses on information storage capacity of the optical disk covering the information workstation (uses microcomputer, optical disk, compact disc to provide reference information, information content, work product support); use of laser videodisc technology for dissemination of agricultural information; encoding databases…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Databases, Information Dissemination, Information Science
Eastmond, Nick – Innovation Abstracts, 1983
The microcomputer revolution promises to alter drastically the means of communicating and storing information in higher education. Ways in which computers can enhance faculty members' productivity include: (1) word processing; (2) information access; (3) electronic mail; (4) graphics; (5) accounting; and (6) learning. The response of faculty and…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Computer Oriented Programs, Faculty Development, Higher Education
Barkley, John; Rosenthal, Lynne S. – 1985
Designed to provide individuals responsible for the management of information resources with an understanding of the activities that lead to effective information management, this document identifies issues related to the management of microcomputer systems and analyzes some of the options available for the effective integration of small systems…
Descriptors: Administrators, Computer Literacy, Computer Software, Information Dissemination
Brock, Jack L., Jr. – 1992
This testimony discusses ways in which some federal government agencies use technology to provide the public with cheaper, faster access to a wider range of information which can be searched and manipulated in ways never possible on the printed page. Technologies included in the discussion are compact disc-read only memory (CD-ROM), electronic…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Networks, Databases, Electronic Mail
Canadian Association for Information Science, Ottawa (Ontario). – 1984
Seventeen papers from the 1984 annual conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science (CAIS) are presented in four broad topic areas. The first group, which focuses on changing roles in information access, includes the keynote address by Charles Meadow, "Integrating Access to Information Utilities: Promises, Problems, and…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Computer Software, Databases, Futures (of Society)
