Reference service is defined as the mediation by a librarian between the need structures of users and the structures of information resources. The general process by which reference librarians accomplish this is outlined as including the phases of question clarification, question translation, search strategy formulation, search execution, delivery…

This compilation of ERIC abstracts dealing with trade is the sixth in a series that identifies research and instructional materials in selected occupational clusters. Fifty-seven documents were identified by means of computer searches of "Research in Education" from 1967 to December 1972. Instructions on how to use ERIC reference…

This compilation of ERIC abstracts dealing with banking is the seventh in a series that identifies research and instructional materials in selected occupational clusters. Ninety-three documents were identified by means of computer searches of "Research in Education" from 1967 to December 1972. Instructions on how to use ERIC reference…

This compilation of ERIC abstracts dealing with education is the eighth in a series that identifies research and instructional materials in selected occupational clusters. Fourteen documents were identified by means of computer searches of "Research in Education" from 1967 to December 1972. Instructions on how to use ERIC reference…

This compilation of ERIC Abstracts dealing with health is the ninth in a series that identifies research and instructional materials in selected occupational clusters. Seventy-nine documents were identified by means of a computer searches of "Research in Education" from 1967 to December 1972. Instructions on how to use ERIC reference…

This compilation of ERIC abstracts dealing with welfare is the 10th in a series that identifies research and instructional materials in selected occupational clusters. Sixty-three documents were identified by means of computer searches of "Research in Education" from 1967 to December 1972. Instructions on how to use ERIC reference…

This compilation of ERIC abstracts dealing with recreation and entertainment is the 13th in a series that identifies research and instructional materials in selected occupational clusters. Approximately 125 documents were identified by means of computer searches of "Research in Education" from 1967 to December 1972. Instructions on how…

This compilation of ERIC abstracts dealing with manufacturing is the 14th in a series that identifies research and instructional materials in selected occupational clusters. Ninety-four documents were identified by means of computer searches of "Research in Education" from 1967 to December 1972. Instructions on how to use ERIC reference…

This compilation of ERIC abstracts dealing with transportation is the 15th in a series that identifies research and instructional materials in selected occupational clusters. Fifty-seven documents were identified by means of computer searches of "Research in Education" from 1967 to December 1972. Instructions on how to use ERIC reference…

Libraries must be aware of the needs of the users in their funding organization, and yet, there is growing concern among library funding organizations that libraries are not fully coping with the information explosion. In fact, libraries, by not adopting new techniques to become more productive, are actually helping to cause the problems of the…

In open information systems, such as in the case of human interchange with the self and the environment, input quantities have no upper limits. The human information utilization system, however, is psychologically and behaviorally unable to accept ever increasing loads of information. Because of this apparent fact, human information systems should…

This paper demonstrates an approach which enables one to reduce in a systematic way the immense complexity of a large body of knowledge. This approach provides considerable insight into what is known and unknown in a given academic field by systematically and pragmatically ordering the information. As a case study, the authors selected…

Supporting general recommendations of the main body of the study contained in SO 005 889, this report suggests ways of approaching a reconceptualization of knowledge utilization in education at the policy making level. Since education is viewed as a life long process, there is need to establish and maintain a mass media system (especially…

Two Research Memoranda, numbers 15 and 16, are contained in this volume. (The general nature of the memoranda are described and related documents listed in SO 005 892). The first essay by Daniel E. Costello, entitled "Communication, Knowledge and the Educator as a Problem-Namer", views the problem of knowledge formation and utilization within…

An introduction in a synoptic presentation based on 40-hour courses given to students of French-speaking African countries, with summary schemes, references to literature and other sources of information, lists of Belgian and French standards, and an extract from the UDC is presented in this publication. The chapters are: (1) Introduction, (2)…