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Van Laar, Evert – 1985
A comprehensive questionnaire was sent to 49 African national archival agencies in April 1982 to survey the needs of African Member States for assistance in the development of archives. This study is based on the 27 (55%) questionnaires that were returned. The participating agencies were grouped into three categories: agencies located in…
Descriptors: Archives, Developing Nations, Government Libraries, Information Storage
Wimalaratne, K. D. G. – 1984
This long-term Records and Archives Administration Programme (RAMP) study is designed to assist archivists, records managers, and information specialists in identifying for current use and possible archival selection those transactional or case files that contain scientific and technical information (STI), particularly in those instances where…
Descriptors: Archives, Developing Nations, Government Publications, Indexing
Ohio State Univ., Columbus. Computer and Information Science Research Center. – 1977
The annual report of the Department of Computer and Information Science includes abstracts of research carried out during the 1976-77 academic year with support from grants by governmental agencies and industry, as well as The Ohio State University. The report covers the department's organizational structure, objectives, highlights of department…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Annual Reports, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science
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
Trubow, George B. – 1978
Policies and issues associated with the privacy and security of criminal history information are presented. The first chapter discusses general concepts regarding privacy and security of criminal justice information, including definitions of basic terms, considerations of interests requiring attention when developing policy, relevance of fair…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Criminal Law, Criminals, Information Storage
BAKER, FRANK B. – 1967
IF COMPUTER PROGRAMS ARE TO SERVE AS USEFUL MODELS OF COGNITIVE BEHAVIOR, THEIR CREATORS MUST FACE THE NEED TO ESTABLISH AN INTERNAL ORGANIZATION FOR THEIR MODEL WHICH IMPLEMENTS THE HIGHER LEVEL COGNITIVE BEHAVIORS ASSOCIATED WITH THE HUMAN CAPACITY FOR SELF-DIRECTION, AUTOCRITICISM, AND ADAPTATION. PRESENT COMPUTER MODELS OF COGNITIVE BEHAVIOR…
Descriptors: Behavior, Cognitive Processes, Computer Programs, Computers
BOHNERT, LEA M. – 1967
A RETRIEVAL MODEL WAS DEVELOPED FOR TEACHING AND RESEARCH PURPOSES ON THE BASIS OF VARIED WORK EXPERIENCE AND ANALYSIS OF TECHNICAL DOCUMENT RETRIEVAL AND LIBRARY SERVICES. THE MODEL IS BASED ON SHANNON'S COMMUNICATION MODEL BUT IDENTIFIES THE WOULD BE READER, OR DESTINATION OF RECORDED MESSAGES, AS THE ACTIVATOR OF RETRIEVAL SERVICES. TWO MAIN…
Descriptors: Abstracting, Indexing, Information Processing, Information Retrieval
Burford, Anna M.; Northcutt, Helen A. – 1980
This report presents the results of a survey conducted to analyze the factors constituting information records management in business offices located in Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia. Seventy-one percent of 142 randomly selected companies of various sizes responded to mailed questionnaires, and two companies were selected for on-site visits.…
Descriptors: Business, Computer Storage Devices, Information Processing, Information Retrieval
Hughes, Geoffrey – 1979
Prestel, Oracle, and Ceefax are telephone based video text systems currently in use in Great Britain. Rather than being considered as competitors, they should be viewed as complementary media with separate functions based on their differences. All use home television sets to receive information in print, and all broadcast on spare TV lines in the…
Descriptors: Advertising, Communications, Delivery Systems, Foreign Countries
California Univ., Los Angeles. Graduate School of Library and Information Science. – 1979
This report describes the development and implementation of a prototype system that integrates a microfiche catalog into an online computer system for bibliographic control. Such a system permits the storage of catalog data not yet converted to digital form, data in ideographic form, data for large numbers of little-used records, and data for use…
Descriptors: Catalogs, Computer Output Microfilm, Computer Storage Devices, Feasibility Studies
Lister, Winston C. – 1967
Two aspects to be considered in designing a storage system for library materials are: the fraction of the collection which is to be stored; and the criteria to be used for selecting materials for storage. This study demonstrates that for a given selection criterion least-cost storage quantities can be assessed by balancing the large circulation…
Descriptors: Age, Costs, Information Storage, Library Circulation
Reilly, Kevin D. – 1967
The nature of typical mechanized data bases with which university information centers and libraries will be working is examined to provide background information for data base retrieval efforts. Format and content of the data must be taken into consideration before meaningful retrieval can be achieved. Hence both of these aspects are treated in…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Automation, Cataloging, Census Figures
Artandi, Susan; Baxendale, Stanley – 1968
This report describes Phase 1 of a research project with the over-all objective of exploring the applicability of automatic methods in the indexing of drug information appearing in English natural language text. Two major phases of the research have been completed: (1) development of the automatic indexing method and its implementation on the test…
Descriptors: Automation, Computer Programs, Computer Storage Devices, Computers
Williams, Martha E.; MacLaury, Keith D. – 1977
The objective of the project was to develop an inexpensive and effective technique for matching records in multiple fields in order to build a union catalog containing only one representation of a given book. The Information Retrieval Research Lab (IRRL) developed a prototype system called IUCS (IRRL Union Catalog System) by testing various…
Descriptors: Cataloging, College Libraries, Computer Storage Devices, Feasibility Studies
Sherman, Don; Vihman, Marilyn – 1972
This project was designed to develop machine-searchable files of linguistic data to be interrogated by researchers looking for patterns, examples, and other kinds of evidence bearing on language universals. This preliminary report of the project focuses on a detailed description of the computer program system used, MARC (Machine-Readable Catalog),…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Computer Programs, Eskimos, Information Processing
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