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Peer reviewedWhite, Howard D. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1977
Files of machine-readable social science data are not yet under adequate bibliographic control. Two possible innovations to make these files more widely known--library cataloging resulting in a national union catalog, and a national service combining indexing and abstracting, on-line search capability, and documents delivery--are discussed.…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Information Services, Information Systems, Online Systems
Download full textMichigan Library Consortium, Detroit. – 1975
Since the formal organization of the Michigan Library Consortium, its financial support has come through membership fees and a grant from the Michigan State Library from Title III funds. The financing of the consortium is already a complex operation and will become even more complex as new programs are undertaken, since funds have been accepted…
Descriptors: Budgets, Consortia, Costs, Financial Support
Nimmer, Ronald J. – Library Acquisitions: Practice and Theory, 1980
Reports a study analyzing the growth and recorded circulation of the university libraries' monograph collection for a five-year period. Achievements in the creation of new management information reports and their uses in managing the collections are discussed. Anticipated results are noted from the correlation of circulation and collection…
Descriptors: Books, College Libraries, Coordination, Databases
Haas, Stephanie W.; Pattuelli, Maria Cristina; Brown, Ron T. – Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting, 2003
Describes the Statistical Interactive Glossary (SIG), an enhanced glossary of statistical terms supported by the GovStat ontology of statistical concepts. Presents a conceptual framework whose components articulate different aspects of a term's basic explanation that can be manipulated to produce a variety of presentations. The overarching…
Descriptors: Federal Government, Glossaries, Information Sources, Information Systems
Peer reviewedAdams, Margaret O'Neill – Library Trends, 1982
Analysis of one component of library reference service--online numeric database systems for time-series data--reviews tradition of reference service and ways in which computer technology has enhanced provision of library services. Experiences with Kentucky Economic Information System (KEIS) are described. Examples of KEIS and 30 references are…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Databases, Economics, Higher Education
Mu, Xiangming; Marchionini, Gary – Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting, 2001
Describes a novel design of a Table Browser for casual users of statistical data. Focuses on the overall system architecture and the user interface. Describes the prototype interface and presents results of experiments testing the efficacy of the multi-threaded data flow. (AEF)
Descriptors: Computer Interfaces, Computer System Design, Data Analysis, Information Systems
OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., Dublin, OH. – 1975
The 1974-75 annual report of the Ohio College Library Center (OCLC) provides statistics, tables, and narrative information about OCLC's operation, particularly its on-line cataloging services. A detailed financial statement is included. Members as of June 1975 are listed, as are the OCLC trustees. (LS)
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Cataloging, College Libraries, Computers
Larsen, Patricia M., Ed.; And Others – Library Administration and Management, 1996
Four articles address issues of collecting, compiling, reporting, and interpreting statistics generated by automated library systems for administrative decision making. Topics include using a management information system to forecast growth and assess areas for downsizing; statistics for collection development and analysis; and online system…
Descriptors: Decision Support Systems, Evaluation Methods, Information Management, Information Systems
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
