The symposium was arranged for the purpose of collecting, discussing and selecting ideas and experience to assist information services and their users in ensuring a more effective transfer and utilization of the flow of information. The report presents the rationale of the program, the opening address and the introductory address and digested…

Search theory, originally developed for antisubmarine search, is applied to the scanning of library shelves for books of interest, or of a computerized abstract catalog for items of immediate application. Procedures optimizing the information to be found are discussed, as well as methods whereby the operational parameters can be measured. The…

A program is presented for a National Information System for Physics based on a computerized American Institute of Physics (AIP) Information Service which is designed to augment the element of selectivity of the present information system for user interests. It is proposed that the system be developed in discreet stages, each adding to the…

An individual's decision-making process is defined as sets of temporally sequential subprocesses by which he receives, evaluates, and acts on information under conditions of uncertainty. The stages of this process are initial choice, analysis and synthesis. A modified version of Form E of the Dogmatism Scale and an original Political Issue…

Least cost decision rules for transferring documents from primary to secondary storage are developed from a dynamic programing model of an information system. The program is constrained to provide for a minimum acceptable level of user benefits. Knowledge of the physical size of the primary storage area and the fraction of documents returned from…

The report stresses the fact that while there is unity in the continuum of medicine, information in health care is markedly different from information in medical education and research. This difference is described as an anomaly in that it appears to deviate in excess of normal variation from needs common to research and education. In substance,…

This bibliography of background reading in security education updates and expands the March 1970 listing by the same name. The periodical references number 260, and 100 book references are listed. Author and subject indexes are provided. (KM)

PROBE, a search and retrieval program, was developed in 1970 at Indiana University to search the computer tape bases for the two ERIC publications, "Research in Education" (RIE) and "Current Index to Journals in Education" (CIJE). The ERIC tapes are received, converted, and combined at the University and implemented on the…

The overall purpose of this study (comprised in volumes 1 through 8) was to provide the National Center for Educational Communication and others with similar functions conceptual-theoretical tools for dissemination and utilization of knowledge. Varied methods included reviewing related literature, consulting theorists in this problem area, writing…

The remaining volumes of the final report (4-8) all contain research memoranda written in the form of essays by research staff and theorists with expertise. The essays deal with operational strategies and philosophical and theoretical considerations of the dissemination and utilization of knowledge. Volume four includes six research memoranda.…

The purpose of this study was to analyze the effectiveness and use of a free educational resource, the ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY NEWSLETTER. Four issues ranging in dates from Fall 1973 to Fall 1976 were selected for review. Data were gathered from elementary school teachers over a three year period of time. The analysis indicated teachers were using…

Academicians, although they would prefer otherwise, perceive university reward systems to have a bias favoring academic journals. Additionally, they doubt whether administrators have good insight concerning the readership of either academic or trade journals. They do not believe administrators are concerned about the numbers of individuals exposed…

A serious lack of reliable data and adequate theory hampers effective service and decision making in the area of child abuse. A discussion of information and policy deficiencies explores the impact and implications of such deficiencies and suggests methods for correcting them. (CM)

Discusses a study designed to assess the impact of information use patterns in an individual's process of creativity. (MH)

Multidisciplinary thinking is advocated as a necessary approach to curriculum development in the light of the emergence of a global society, the rate of social change, the information explosion, and new theories about reality. (GW)