This guide describes the components of a selective dissemination of information (SDI) service which is designed to give developing countries access to international sources of bibliographic information and provides guidelines for the establishment and evaluation of this type of service. It defines the main features of a computerized documentation…

Due to complications that arose after the change of government in Portugal, staffing problems at the Portuguese Centro de Documentacao Cientifica e Tecnica (CDCT) were not resolved until March 1977. As a result, the cooperative program between Portugal and Sweden for scientific and technical information and documentation fell behind its original…

The design and implementation of a complete, computerized retrieval system for the engineering and architectural drawings and maps of several large land development firms are discussed. Such collections present unique problems to the cataloger. Each collection is limited in geographic scope to the land owned or developed by the firm; types of maps…

This report describes an online minicomputer-based system, one combining library inventory control with catalog access, that was implemented at Virginia Tech's main library in order to meet the demands of increased circulation activity and rising staff costs. Following overviews of the institutional environment, the systems development department,…

The major sections of these conference proceedings are (1) what's new worldwide in population information activities; (2) management and libraries; (3) the Select Committee on Population; (4) workshop reports; (5) contributed papers; (6) APLIC-PAA (Association for Population/Family Planning Libraries and Information Centers-Population Association…

THIS REPORT IS A STUDY OF TWO TYPES OF THE PROCESS OF QUESTION NEGOTIATION IN LIBRARIES AND INFORMATION CENTERS. THROUGH TAPED INTERVIEWS WITH SPECIAL LIBRARIANS AND INFORMATION SPECIALISTS, FIVE LEVELS OF INFORMATION WERE ISOLATED WHICH ARE CONSCIOUSLY SOUGHT AND RECEIVED BY THE LIBRARIAN IN THE NEGOTIATION PROCESS. THESE ARE (1) SUBJECT…

AREAS INVESTIGATED INCLUDE SLOW MEMORY DATA STORAGE, THE PROBLEM OF DECODING FROM AN INDEX TO A SLOW MEMORY ADDRESS, THE STRUCTURE OF DATA LISTS AND DATA LIST OPERATORS, COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN THE HUMAN USER AND THE SYSTEM, PROCESSING OF RETRIEVAL REQUESTS, AND THE USER'S CONTROL OVER THE RETURN OF INFORMATION RETRIEVED. LINEAR, LINKED AND…

TWO PROJECTS ON THE DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT, IMPLEMENTATION, AND EVALUATION OF A MAN-MACHINE SYSTEM FOR COUNSELING IN THE PALO ALTO AND LOS ANGELES SCHOOL DISTRICTS ARE REPORTED. THE EARLIER PHILCO 2000 COMPUTER PROGRAMS SIMULATED A COUNSELOR'S WORK IN THE EDUCATIONAL PLANNING INTERVIEW BY ACCEPTING INPUTS SUCH AS SCHOOL GRADES, TEST SCORES, AND…

IN ORDER TO IMPROVE INSTRUCTION WITHIN TWO-YEAR LOWER DIVISION COURSES, A COMPREHENSIVE RESOURCE LIBRARY WAS DEVELOPED AND A SIMPLIFIED CATALOGING AND INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEM WAS APPLIED TO IT. THE ROYAL MCBEE "KEYDEX" SYSTEM, CONTAINING THREE MAJOR COMPONENTS--A PUNCH MACHINE, FILE CARDS, AND A LIGHT BOX--WAS USED. CARDS WERE HEADED WITH KEY…

TO AID DATA COLLECTION ANALYSIS, STORAGE, AND DISSEMINATION, INSTRUMENTS AND PROCEDURES WERE DEVELOPED FOR COLLECTING INFORMATION ON ALL ASPECTS OF THE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM FOR A LARGE POPULATION OF SCHOOLS, INCLUDING INFORMATION ON INDIVIDUAL PUPILS, SCHOOL PERSONNEL, SCHOOLS, AND SCHOOL DISTRICTS. COMPUTER PROGRAMS AND DATA-PROCESSING TECHNIQUES…

Conducted to gather information on the practical impact of implementing either the Washington Library Network (WLN) system or one of two versions of the DOBIS system in British Columbia Union Catalogue (BCUC) member libraries, this study addressed four questions: (1) the effect the introduction of the new system would have on workflows; (2)…

This paper presents information directly related to the activities of those individuals and organizations engaged in developing and delivering short-term client-responsive syntheses/interpretations. The paper has four main sections: 1) a selective literature review, 2) the results of a survey of state and federally funded organizations engaged in…

A brief summary of the progress and status of the Individualized Instruction for Data Access (IIDA) project is followed by a report focusing on the principles and rules for analyzing a computer search performed using the IIDA software, and adaptation rules for the deferment of error messages in the case of frequent violations of the same rule. The…

This bibliography contains information concerning publications of studies and projects which were supported by the Division of Science Information of the National Science Foundation. The first part of the bibliography presents the reports of studies directly produced by NSF. The other part consists of the annotations of the reports which are…

The machine translation system SYSTRAN was assessed for translation quality and system productivity. The test was carried out on translations from English to French dealing with food science and technology. Machine translations were compared to manual translations of the same texts. SYSTRAN was found to be a useful system of information…