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Woods, Kam A. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Over the past several decades, millions of digital objects of significant scientific, economic, cultural, and historic value have been published and distributed to libraries and archives on removable media. Providing long-term access to these documents, media files, and software executables is an increasingly complex task because of dependencies…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Research Libraries, Electronic Libraries, Archives
Ohio State Univ., Columbus. – 1974
The Mechanized Information Center (MIC) at Ohio State University conducts retrospective and current awareness searches using data bases for agriculture, chemistry, education, psychology, and social sciences, as well as a multidisciplinary data base. Described in the report are the history and background of MIC, the data bases, information…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Databases, Information Centers, Information Dissemination
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Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, 1975
Descriptors: Career Education, Clearinghouses, Delivery Systems, Information Networks
Alt, Franz L. – 1966
A preliminary plan is presented for the selection, acquisition, intellectual organization, and storage of the information which will underlie the Information Services Operation of the National Standard Reference Data System, as well as for methods of locating desired information items in storage, retrieving, and displaying or communicating them.…
Descriptors: Computers, Data Collection, Data Processing, Information Dissemination
Marlin, Robert L. – 1971
There are three phases in the development of new drugs aimed at determining adverse reactions or side effects. Each of these phases produces many different pieces of information. All of this leads to a major problem involving the professional/industrial and/or academic libraries serving the scientific-medical community through their information…
Descriptors: Drug Therapy, Information Centers, Information Processing, Information Retrieval
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Martinez, Samuel J. – Journal of Chemical Documentation, 1973
The evolution of Petroleum Abstracts,'' which was started in 1961, is described. The various methods used for retrieving are discussed. (5 references) (SM)
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Databases, Information Centers, Information Processing
Bayer, Bernard – 1975
The Mechanized Information Center (MIC) at the Ohio State University conducts retrospective and current awareness searches for faculty, students, and staff using data bases for agriculture, chemistry, education, psychology, and social sciences, as well as a multidisciplinary data base. The final report includes (1) a description of the background…
Descriptors: Databases, Faculty, Graduate Students, Information Centers
Morris, DuBois S., Jr., Ed. – 1972
The Conference Board's Special Executive Council has commissioned a series of studies into the implications and effects of information technology. This report is a formulation of the more compelling issues in these studies that call for immediate policy-level attention. The propositions and initiatives which were formulated are discussed in…
Descriptors: Communications, Information Dissemination, Information Processing, Information Services
Paisley, William – 1971
Information systems for the sciences and professions should differ from those of traditional libraries because their purpose is to disseminate information, not to archive it, and their holdings should reflect user needs, not the size of the knowledge base. Various information system models may be identified, such as the discipline-oriented, the…
Descriptors: Information Centers, Information Dissemination, Information Needs, Information Networks
Troutman, Joan C. – 1967
This survey of data bases emphasizes reference data bases only and is intended to be indicative of the variety and number of magneti" tape files in existence of a type which might be utilized in an information service center in an university library. It reflects both projects undertaken on a large national scale and those which serve the needs of…
Descriptors: Automation, College Libraries, Information Centers, Information Processing
Cawkell, A. E. – 1978
This paper describes the development of textual information displays for home consumption on modified television receivers in Great Britain over the last few years, compares two systems in use there--Teletext and Viewdata--and discusses some future possibilities for such services in the U.S. as well as the U.K. British television equipment…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Programs, Display Systems, Information Processing
Zunde, Pranas – 1974
STITE (Scientific and Technical Information Transfer for Education) is basically a system to interface between science information and the science learner. As such STITE acts as a link between STIC (Science and Technology Information Centers) and LIS (Learning Information Systems). In this third progress report it is concluded from a questionnaire…
Descriptors: Information Centers, Information Needs, Information Processing, Information Retrieval
Yeatts, Wendell A., Jr.; Reilly, Kevin D. – 1967
The purpose of the Library of Congress Machine-Readable Cataloging (MARC) pilot project was to provide libraries with catalog data encoded on magnetic tape in order to determine the feasibility of centralized computerized cataloging in support of library functions. Sixteen participants were selected on the basis of expressed interest, available…
Descriptors: Automation, Cataloging, College Libraries, Computer Programs
Schuler, S. C., Ed. – 1979
The second of four volumes in a series describing the basic documentation practices involved in the initial setting up and subsequent operation of an information-library organization to provide defense-aerospace scientific and technical information services, this manual consists of three sections. "Data Recording and Storage," by J.…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Computers, Data Processing, Flow Charts
Steward, W. Cecil; Menary, John A. – 1976
This research proposes a conceptual structure for an Environmental Information System. An Eco-Systems approach is employed maintaining whole units of analysis allowing for collection and storage of information of use to regional environmental planning and design. The suggested system design incorporates some of the basic concepts of the two…
Descriptors: Community Development, Ecology, Environment, Environmental Education
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