The advent of information technology has enabled firms to collect significant amounts of data about individuals and mine the data for developing their strategies. Profiling of individuals is one common use of data collected about them. It refers to using known or inferred information to categorize the type of an individual and to tailor specific…

Discusses information systems in which information use becomes the prime design factor rather than technology and content. Highlighted topics include the change of useless data to productive knowledge, a value-added process; environments in which problems requiring information exist; and users' perceptions of the benefits and costs of using…

A STUDY WAS CONDUCTED TO PROVIDE GUIDANCE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) FOR THE U.S. OFFICE OF EDUCATION. THE STUDY CENTERED AROUND THREE TASKS--(1) TO DETERMINE PRESENT INFORMATION NEEDS AMONG PERSONS CONCERNED WITH EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH, (2) TO IDENTIFY THE TECHNOLOGY PROBABLY AVAILABLE TO MEET THESE…

Until recently, the emphasis in information storage and retrieval systems has been towards batch-processing of large files. In contrast, SHOEBOX is designed for the unformatted, personal file collection of the computer-naive individual. Operating through display terminals in a time-sharing, interactive environment on the IBM 360, the user can…

Reports results of a national survey on the use of computerized central registry systems as in child protective services, the perceived advantages and disadvantages of such systems and the extent to which protections have been established against potential abuse of individual civil rights. A need for further study of central registries is…

One hundred and fifty bibliographic entries, dealing with the subject of management information systems, are divided into sections for books and for periodicals. The latter section is further subdivided according to years of publication, although no attempt has been made to gather articles that appeared prior to 1969. (WM)

Instructions for using the computerized Canadian University Student Information System created by Statistics Canada are presented in this manual. The data base includes information on all students registered in Canadian universities, affiliates, and degree-granting colleges. A complete list of all available data elements and column headings that…

A COMPREHENSIVE, SEVEN-VOLUME, CODE LISTING IS PROVIDED OF SOME 1,930 COLLEGES, UNIVERSITIES, AND JUNIOR COLLEGES, REPRESENTED BY "THE COLLEGE SUGGESTOR" SYSTEM. INCLUDED UNDER EACH MAJOR COLLEGE HEADING IS A REPRESENTATIVE CODED LISTING OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THAT COLLEGE, INCLUDING SUCH FACTORS AS LOCATION, SIZE, CONTROL,…

Recent technological advances in computers and communications make possible the integration of data systems and the exchange of data among them on an expanding scale. However, the full effect of these advances cannot be realized unless the need for uniform understanding of the common information (data elements) and its expression in data systems…

How Tennessee County Extension personnel spent their time in Fiscal Year 1970 and 1971 and how they planned their time in Fiscal Year 1971 are discussed in this master's thesis. Information on planned and expended time was retrieved through TEMIS (Tennessee Extension Management Information System). Wide variations were found to exist between time…

This final annual evaluation of project ADMIRE describes the progress made in improving educational decisionmaking in a 5-county rural-urban area by the systematic collection, organization, and reporting of data about project schools and their populations. The five sections of the report (1) describe the organization of the report and the…

This paper discusses several of the trends in information handling for text-based storage and retrieval systems that are prevalent in the United States. The paper considers, in particular, specialized information products, cooperative and networking activities, and work on standards. Information products include current awareness abstract…

The primary scope of this publication is to contribute to the promotion of research in the general area of manpower and employment by surveying the supply of statistical data with a view to stimulating and facilitating their analytical use. Since the mass of relevant manpower data in this country is enormous, it was decided to approach the problem…

A project designed to permit people from different disciplines to locate and retrieve rapidly, and as specifically as possible, all items in a slide collection that fill their specific needs, is the subject of this paper. A field-test of the system for 35mm slides used within the fields of Art, History, Literature and Drama yielded the following…

This collection of 22 papers from the Conference on Information in the Language Sciences held in Warrenton, Va., in 1966, sponsored by the Center for Applied Linguistics, stresses three themes: general trends, information needs of the languages sciences, and system design. Discussions attempt to formulate modern rational approaches to the complex…