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Download full textNational Center for Education Statistics (ED), Washington, DC. – 1983
This document is the user's manual for utilizing the data files containing the 1980 Census of Population and Housing School District Equivalency Files, Master Reference Files (MARF) 3 and 4. These equivalency files were created by the Bureau of the Census using school district boundary maps, and they pertain to all persons and housing units in the…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Databases, Demography, Elementary Secondary Education
National Center for Education Statistics (ED), Washington, DC. – 1980
Two data files which contain the 1980 Census of Population and Housing School District Equivalency Files, Master Reference Files (MARF) 3 and 4, are presented. These equivalency files were created by the Bureau of the Census using school district boundary maps. MARF 3 contains geographic items from census Summary Tape Files (STF) 1A and 3A as well…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Databases, Demography, Elementary Secondary Education
Hiltz, Starr Roxanne – 1988
This second volume of a two-volume report is based on the experiences of teachers who participated in a project at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) which assessed the effectiveness of a Virtual Classroom (VC), in which students and teachers communicate through a computer-mediated system called the Electronic Information Exchange…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Networks, Distance Education
Oliva, Victor T.; Reiner, Michael K. – 1989
This guide outlines the procedures for using INNOVACQ at the Adelphi University Swirlbul Library to process and check in government documents and to create and change records. All INNOVACQ procedures are described in detail, and step-by-step instructions are provided for selected routines. A list of Long Island government depository libraries and…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Classification, College Libraries, Depository Libraries
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. – 1987
Written in response to a request to review the implementation of the Department of Agriculture's Electronic Dissemination of Information (EDI) system, this fact sheet discusses the performance of the contractor operating the system and the role of EDI in the Department of Agriculture's overall public dissemination activities. A letter from the…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Contracts, Costs, Formative Evaluation
Vigil, Peter J. – 1989
Online information retrieval is pervasive and its development in libraries is accelerating. Within the near future, most college and research libraries will provide direct access to their patrons to vast information resources via CD-ROMs, locally mounted databases, and gateways. The computer terminal and the "frame" of information it…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Expert Systems, Heuristics, Information Retrieval
Shuman, Bruce A. – 1989
After surveying the history and current status of online database searching, this report offers a timeline describing four stages of possible developments for online systems. In the first stage, an expert interface assists CD-ROM-based searching by offering advice about search strategies. Advantages are that search logic can be refined with the…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Cybernetics, Expert Systems, Futures (of Society)
Norris, Lila; Shatkin, Laurence – 1986
A prototype corporate version of SIGI PLUS a computer-based career guidance system, was developed by the Educational Testing Service (ETS) to serve the career counseling needs of adults in companies. It included a large store of nationally applicable occupational information that could be readily linked online to employer-provided company…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Business, Career Choice
Barrett, W. F. – 1985
The EUDISED (European Documentation and Information System for Education) database is described in this document and proposals are made for extending the database to cover areas in addition to educational research projects. Mention is made of educational periodicals, audiovisual teaching aids, educational software, the periodical…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Computer Software, Data Processing, Databases
Peters, Paul Evan, Ed. – 1985
The Bibliographic Service Development Program of the Council on Library Resources convened a meeting of experts in March 1984 to consider the advisability of applying standards in the development and operation of online public access catalog systems in libraries. Following presentations from three invited participants, working groups were formed…
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Information Storage, Information Systems, Libraries
Watt, James H., Jr.; Stefanov, Rebecca – 1984
The situational and personal factors affecting the usage of a computer based information service by health care professionals are described. Of 166 health care professionals who were identified as potential users of MEDLINE at the University of Connecticut, 126 carried out one or more online searches. Pre-use and post-use questionnaires were…
Descriptors: Databases, Health Materials, Health Personnel, Information Needs
Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. Office of Management Studies. – 1978
A 1978 information survey of Association of Research Libraries (ARL) members indicated that at that time, only a few large libraries were planning to freeze their card catalogs and set up alternative catalog forms as a response to decisions made by the Library of Congress to freeze its card catalog, supply access to its collection through an…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Card Catalogs, Higher Education, Library Automation
Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. Office of Management Studies. – 1978
Results of a 1978 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) survey indicated that 68 (89%) of responding libraries utilized an automated cataloging system. Of those 68, 53 participated in the Ohio College Library Center (OCLC), five in BALLOTS, and the rest in other networks or local systems. At the beginning of this collection, a concise summary…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cataloging, Higher Education, Library Automation
Riegel, N. Blyth – 1986
Recent changes in the structure of curriculum and the instructional system in Texas have required a major reorganization of teaching, evaluating, budgeting, and planning activities in the local education agencies, which has created the need for a database. The history of Richardson Instructional Management System (RIMS), its data processing…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Criterion Referenced Tests, Data Processing, Educational Administration
Soffin, Stan; And Others – 1987
Forty-eight Michigan newspapers were surveyed by telephone to determine their criteria in selecting online database services, type of personnel using them, training procedures, budgets, and perceptions of the impact of these services on the speed of writing stories and quality of reporting. Data collection involved two phases: (1) researchers…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Computers, Database Producers, Databases
