This review of the world of telecommunications and its effect on special libraries includes discussions on the use of satellites to facilitate document teledistribution, online bibliographic searches, remote access to databases, and teletex systems. It is contended that the growing network of domestic satellites and the decreasing cost of services…

Space communications have developed tremendously since 1963 when the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) launched the synchronous communication satellite, Syncom II, into geostationary orbit. The capacity of that spacecraft was one two-circuit voice channel. Intelsat V, launched in 1980, has a capacity of 12,000 circuits plus two…

This discussion of research and evaluation issues in the application of satellite communications to education highlights the potential uses of this technology for the educator and points out what educational researchers and administrators can learn from past endeavors. The major projects known collectively as the Health/Education…

The Associated Press's claim that it is the oldest wire service in the United States (tracing its origin to formation of the New York City Associated Press in 1948) has been regularly sustained in journalism's history literature. This claim has been challenged by Alfred McClung Lee in his book "The Daily Newspaper in America," in which he contends…

At the 1970 National Association of Educational Broadcasters convention, a minority affairs report showed that, although minorities constituted nearly 10 percent of public broadcasting employees, there was almost no minority representation at the management and professional levels. Recent statistics show little change in those employment…

This paper outlines the structure of Japanese telecommunication industries and how the various parts of the mechanism work together. Explanations of the Japanese: 1) structure of telecommunication industries; 2) control of regulatory lags; 3) text information service and regulation; and 4) text information service and the telecommunication…

This compilation of broadcast journals and periodicals is a result of a questionnaire survey which attempted to determine the extent and nature of articles published by journals or periodicals which relate to radio and television broadcasting. The 109 responses, as well as the 19 returned by the post office and the 27 non-responses are listed by…

Using business customers, a two-way television conference experiment was conducted between Vancouver and Victoria, British Columbia. Two-way conferences were conducted between telephone officials, businessmen and government officials, college students, elementary-school pupils and teachers, and a psychiatrist and clients. Discussion topics…

Television will be a valuable tool in preparing people to cope with a shrinking and increasingly interdependent world. A child left to his own devices will equate "strangeness" with "danger". Television can bring a wide variety of experiences with different cultures to a child and help him to formulate an understanding of his place in the world.…

Since it became a reality just before World War II, terrestrial microwave has improved in systems and equipments, but with the improvements have come higher costs. Television microwave costs are so high because users are demanding more capability, land prices have increased, operating costs are higher, and there is frequency congestion along many…

At the conference, which brought together many university representatives from the Pacific Rim, papers were presented yielding both individual problems, perspectives, and successes in computer networks and also group needs and development. In the first section of this report the status reports of networking in the Pacific Rim are summarized. Next…

The manual contains sections on: (1) Philosophy and Rationale, (2) The Network Relationship, (3) Verification, (4) Transmission Schedules, (5) Nebraska Union Catalog, (6) Denver Bibliographical Center for Research, (7) Technical Operating Procedures, (8) TWX Operation Including Instructions for Formats, (9) Sample Regional Library Request to NPLC,…

Communication Systems Managers have expressed interest as to the need for and desirability of continuation of the Communications Yeoman (CYN) service rating in consideration of changes which have occurred in naval communications and the Radioman general rating. The objective of the research is to determine and analyze the current and continuing…

This research study delineates the role and spread of mass media and its impact on economic development of underdeveloped countries. Some definitions about mass communication are given, followed by a brief description of how the mass media in the countries of the world operate under four major theories. An examination is made of the economic…

It is the opinion of the author that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has wasted much of its time and energy in recent years constantly forming and revising cable television regulations when cable television is a relatively minor phenomenon with which the Commission should not have concerned itself in the first place. Thus, this book…