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Peer reviewedGillman, Peter L. – Electronic Library, 1985
Argues that information management calls for development of an organizational strategy that encompasses users, information resources, and the available and appropriate technology. Discussion of factors involved includes the nature of information and information resources, variance in information usage, and guidelines for developing a strategy to…
Descriptors: Information Needs, Information Retrieval, Information Services, Information Sources
Download full textMassachusetts Inst. of Tech., Cambridge. – 1971
The research activities of Project Intrex are directed toward the extension of man's intellectual reach by a new kind of control over access to information. Ways are sought to improve the efficiency of catalog search by utilization of interactive computing techniques, and to provide rapid access to full-text displays by utilizing microfilm storage…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Automation, Computers, Facsimile Transmission
Swanson, Rowena W. – 1970
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…
Descriptors: Abstracting, Computer Oriented Programs, Data Processing, Evaluation
Clausen, Helge – 1996
This paper presents the results of an empirical survey conducted in the winter of 1995-96 among 413 Danish Internet users (business people, higher education/research and students). Data from a recent Danish Mediacenter Internet survey (n=2981) are also included. Findings indicate that women tend to use the Internet to solve well-defined problems,…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Mediated Communication, Electronic Libraries, Foreign Countries
Heim, Kathleen M. – 1975
The use, history, and role of machine-readable data base technology is discussed. First the development of data base technology is traced from its beginnings as a special resource for science and technology to its broader use in universities, with descriptions of some specific services. Next the current status of mechanized information services in…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Databases, Higher Education, Information Centers
Cuadra, Carlos A., Ed.; And Others – 1974
Descriptions and appraisals of significant recent trends and developments in the field of information science are presented. The individual chapters deal with the following topics: (1) information needs and uses, (2) design and evaluation of information systems, (3) an economist's view of information, (4) document description and representation,…
Descriptors: Databases, Documentation, Economics, Education
Husbands, Charles W., Ed.; Tighe, Ruth L., Ed. – 1975
This volume of Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science is limited to the text of papers accepted and scheduled for presentation at the 1975 meeting. The papers reflect the need to address and define issues in national information policy, and they examine the current state of federal-level planning and funding of information…
Descriptors: Automation, Communications, Computer Oriented Programs, Computers
