The Pennsylvania State Department of Education developed an automated system in 1970 to facilitate meeting report requirements to the United States Office of Education. This system provides for computer processing of such information as labor market needs in planning vocational programs, standards for these programs, graduate followup, demographic…

Describes the development of a microcomputer based management information system (MIS) for the DeKalb County Public Library. Data collection activities that determined system requirements and the evolution of a database design from those requirements are discussed, as well as plans to develop a generic public library MIS based on this model.…

Version 3 of the Southwest Regional Laboratory's (SWRL) Instructional Management System (IMS) is a fully automated system which accepts pupil criterion exercises from remote sites and returns various reports to the same location. This paper briefly describes the SWRL/IMS system design and functional characteristics. The instructional system…