This report was prepared in response to a need identified in the "Provisional Long-Range Plan" of the Wisconsin Coordinating Council for Higher Education (CCHE). The findings of an advisory committee were used as the basis for recommendations in three areas: (1) technology and interinstitutional cooperation, (2) library resources and (3)…

The use of a system for on-line conversation in ordinary English grammatical patterns is illustrated by a number of examples showing how data bases of diverse content and structure may be described, interrogated, and modified. It is suggested that a system composed of a user extendable subset of English, a natural language compiler to translate…

The Acquisitions System is just one segment of an overall system design that was made for the entire Technical Services System of the Washington State University Library. After an overall study of the Technical Services System was conducted, a detailed study was made of work in the Acquisitions Department, and the Telecommunications Control…

A project is being conducted to test the feasibility of an information storage and retrieval system for museum specimen data, particularly for natural history museums. A pilot data processing system has been developed, with the specimen records from the national collections of birds, marine crustaceans, and rocks used as sample data. The research…

Bell Canada, the Public School and Collegiate Institute Boards of Ottawa, and the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education are collaborating on an educational television project which will provide a retrieval system that can supply any given program at any time under the control of the classroom teacher. Four schools in Ottawa will participate…

The development of a large scale selective dissemination of information program, its experimental operation, and program evaluation is reported. An IBM 7090/94 computer program compared user interest profiles with the subject indexes of reports announced in "Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports." Users were provided with selected…

The Informationszentrum fur Fremdsprachenforschung (IFS) (information center dealing with foreign language research) is part of a West German information dissemination system that is similar to ERIC. This annotated bibliography, published quarterly by the IFS, lists items compiled in conjunction with the ERIC/CLL as well as with a number of…

The Informationszentrum fur Fremdsprachenforschung (IFS) (information center dealing with foreign language research) is part of a West German information dissemination system that is similar to ERIC. This annotated bibliography, published quarterly by the IFS, lists items compiled in conjunction with the ERIC/CLL as well as with a number of…

The Informationszentrum fur Fremdsprachenforschung (IFS) (information center dealing with foreign language research) is part of a West German information dissemination system that is similar to ERIC. This annotated bibliography, published quarterly by the IFS, lists items compiled in conjunction with the ERIC/CLL as well as with a number of…

Cable television offers great benefits in its large information carrying capacity, its local and selective character, and its two-way capability. A key fact in the history of cable television is that in 1971 the PCC required that one channel be reserved for educational use. Planning for the "wired city" has presented problems for both town…

A group of readings was collected to provide a background on the problems of identifying information needs. The readings are divided into four parts: General Aspects and Concepts of Information, Studies of User Information Needs, Critiques of Use and User Studies, and an epilogue. Each part contains a general introduction and a selection of…

Twenty papers were selected from the Technical Program of the First Mid-Year Regional Conference of the American Society for Information Science, held at the University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio in May 1972. The papers cover a range of subjects related to the general theme of cost reduction in libraries and information centers. Following an…

The Informationszentrum fur Fremdsprachenforschung (IFS) (information center dealing with foreign language research) is part of a West German information dissemination system that is similar to ERIC. This annotated bibliography, published quarterly by the IFS, lists items compiled in conjunction with the ERIC/CLL as well as with a number of…

This document is part of a West German information dissemination system that is similar to ERIC. This annotated bibliography, published quarterly by the IFS, lists items compiled in conjunction with the ERIC/CLL as well as with a number of institutions in other countries. Most of the 251 items listed in Vol. 4, No. 3 appeared in 1973 and deal…

As part of the first year activities of the Northeast Academic Science Information Center (NASIC), a survey was made of existing bibliographic information centers and information processing activities across the country. Reports are presented on the activities of each of the 11 centers identified. A bibliography of information about computerized…