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Peer reviewedSmith, Elizabeth S. – Information Technology and Libraries, 1993
Describes the evolution of computerized information storage and retrieval from its mid-nineteenth century beginnings in theoretical works on logic by George Boole, to the applications of Boole's logic to switching circuits by Claude Shannon in the 1930s, to the development of coordinate indexing by Mortimer Taube in the 1940s and 1950s. (Contains…
Descriptors: Coordinate Indexes, Electric Circuits, Indexing, Information Retrieval
Download full textBrandhorst, Ted, Ed. – 1992
This document describes the major organizational components of the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) system, the interactions between those components, and the major products and services provided by those components. (WTB)
Descriptors: Abstracting, Cataloging, Databases, Documentation
Brandhorst, Ted, Ed.; And Others – 1980
This loose-leaf manual provides the detailed rules, guidelines, and examples to be used by the components of the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) Network in acquiring and selecting documents and in processing them (i.e., cataloging, indexing, abstracting) for input to the ERIC computer system and subsequent announcement in…
Descriptors: Abstracting, Cataloging, Databases, Documentation
Booth, Pat F.; South, M. L. – 1982
Designed to be a foundation work, this book about information storage and retrieval includes discussions of theory as well as descriptions of practice. It is intended for: (1) students at both the graduate and non-graduate level who are beginning formal studies of librarianship/information science; (2) staff of library/information units who have…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Indexes, Indexing
Brandhorst, Ted, Ed.; And Others – 1992
This loose-leaf manual provides the detailed rules, guidelines, and examples to be used by the components of the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) Network in acquiring and selecting documents and in processing them (i.e., cataloging, indexing, abstracting) for input to the ERIC computer system and subsequent announcement in…
Descriptors: Abstracting, Cataloging, Databases, Documentation
Brandhorst, Ted, Ed.; And Others – 1992
This guide identifies and describes the subject areas covered by the ERIC Clearinghouses. Each Clearinghouse scope statement is provided in the following three-part format: (1) Formal Statement--A comprehensive and detailed description of the scope areas, mainly for use by the ERIC Facility in assigning documents (on the basis of their subject…
Descriptors: Clearinghouses, Databases, Decentralization, Documentation
Elias, Arthur W., Ed. – 1971
Nineteen documents on various aspects of information science are included in this introductory book of readings. The documents were selected because they are relatively easy to read for beginning students and are likely to be useful for a number of years. The documents cover the literature from 1958 to 1970. They are: (1) Information Science: What…
Descriptors: Abstracting, Documentation, Indexing, Information Centers
Montgomery, Edward B., Ed. – 1968
In 1965 the Syracuse University School of Library Science held a symposium to explore the nature of the relationship between the structure and transmission of knowledge, on the one hand, and the array of bibliographic devices which have been developed to facilitate access to that knowledge, on the other. Papers presented discussed the need for a…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Coupling, Citation Indexes, Citations (References), Indexes
