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Download full textPalmer, Crescentia – 1976
A comparison of costs for computer-based searching of Psychological Abstracts and Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) systems by the New York State Library at Albany was produced by combining data available from search request forms and from bills from the contract subscription service, the State University of New…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computers, Cost Effectiveness, Costs
Peer reviewedAnd Others; Williams, Martha E. – Journal of Library Automation, 1979
Presents MARC database statistics for use in planning and processing files, selection of subsets, and estimating file growth rates. Statistics are provided on record length, field tag occurrence, data element length per field tag, and distribution of records by Dewey Decimal Division and Library of Congress class code. (Author/RAA)
Descriptors: Databases, Information Processing, Information Retrieval, Information Systems
Peer reviewedPacker, Katherine H.; Soergel, Dagobert – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1979
Exploring the use and effectiveness of current awareness (CA) methods, especially selective dissemination of information (SDI) among chemists at Canadian universities, this study focuses on the perceived dispersal of information, use of various CA methods, time spent on CA, perceived success in CA, and CA efficiency. (FM)
Descriptors: Information Dissemination, Information Retrieval, Information Services, Information Systems
Ben-Arie, Jezekiel; Pandit, Purvin; Rajaram, ShyamSundar – 2001
This paper is focused on a central aspect in the design of a planned digital library for human movement, i.e. on the aspect of representation and recognition of human activity from video data. The method of representation is important since it has a major impact on the design of all the other building blocks of the system such as the user…
Descriptors: Computer System Design, Database Design, Electronic Libraries, Human Posture
Rouse, William B., Ed. – 1975
Three papers based on projects produced in a course entitled Operations Research and Library Management, jointly sponsored by the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering and the Graduate School of Library Science are reported and explained. Topics covered include an assessment of faculty interest in an information retrieval service;…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Data Collection, Documentation, Geographic Distribution
Orr, David B. – 1982
The Vocational Education Data System (VEDS) data base was created as a result of the Vocational Education Amendments of 1976. VEDS statistics were to be collected in the form of state-aggregate data (that is, state-level data is submitted by each state, based upon records and data collected by the state for this and other purposes); and VEDS data,…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Databases, Educational Research, Information Networks
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. School Buildings Services. – 1986
This report presents an information needs assessment for an office automation plan to be undertaken for the School Building Services Branch of the Alberta Department of Education. This exercise complements the work of two senior committees within the Department: (1) the Electronic Information Processing Needs Study Steering Committee, and (2) the…
Descriptors: Automation, Computers, Data Collection, Data Processing
