This essay assesses the principal literature published on the theory of information science during 1971-1976. This literature is compared to the article, "From Information Science to Informatics: A Terminological Investigation," by Hans Wellisch. What has been written since Wellisch wrote was found to be not equal in quality to this…

This glossary was compiled to provide reference material for participants at Hawaii's Second Governor's Conference on Library and Information Services and is especially useful to those individuals not familiar with the terminology of the library and information sciences. Entries consist of 194 names, acronyms, and other terms which are arranged in…

This paper describes research being carried out at the Ohio State University leading toward a general theory of information flow and analysis. The objectives of this program sponsored by the National Science Foundation include the following: (1) to develop a theory of information flow and analysis; (2) to identify important parameters and…

Originally called the American Documentation Institute, over the years the American Society for Information Science (ASIS) has changed its emphasis from documentation to information science. During its 40 year history, the society has incorporated into its membership numerous individuals and agencies whose activities include classification,…

The "CumIndex" cumulates the back-of-book indexes of 96 English-language works in the field of library and information science and thus provides an in-depth index to important works in the field. The list is the result of a sequence of computer programs which edit, modify, and reorganize index entries from individual books to provide a coherent…

An annotated bibliography lists approximately 100 books in the fields of instructional media, libraries, and information science. Each citation contains title, author, publisher, price, and a brief annotation. An elementary classified index is included at the conclusion of the publication. (JY)

Proposed is a measure of indexing consistency based on the concept of "fuzzy sets." By this procedure a higher consistency value is assigned if indexers agree on the more important terms than if they agree on less important terms. Measures of the quality of an indexer's work and exhaustivity of indexing are also proposed. Experimental data on…

The Case Western Reserve University, School of Library Science bibliography has been revised to restrict its contents to current items, except where older documents are listed to preserve a series. The listings are broken up into six sections: (1) basic research in information science, (2) experimentation, (3) professional applications, (4)…

The purpose of this standard is to present an organized body of concepts and their corresponding terms relevant to the field of information processing, and to identify relationships among the concepts and among terms. The body of the vocabulary is the collection of the entries. The symbol "(SC1)" is used to identify definitions agreed…

Chemical Abstracts Service developed and expanded a computer-based Chemical Registry System and operated it on a large-scale pilot basis. Some 1,744,319 registry transactions were made, resulting in the addition of 988,806 unique substances to the Registry Files. Continual effort has been made to improve computer capabilities and procedures, add…

The objective of studies of academic programs and their curricula is twofold and mutually dependent. The principal purpose is the development of quality programs. A corollary of this objective is the evaluation of existing or proposed programs. Both objectives of this type of educational studies thus depend on the development of program models.…

This report outlines the development of the UDECOM system (UNIVAC-DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEM). UDECOM is the implementation of a software package for the DEC PDP-8/I computer which enables data communication with the UNIVAC 1108 computer. Also described are the results of research into the U1108/U1004 data…

Some crucial aspects of international scientific information systems whose establishment will be urgently required in the near future are explored. The exploration is concerned with futuristic aspects of the coming thirty-two years of the present century. The main sections of this report cover: (1) descriptions of the cybernetic era; (2) aspects…

This research study is based on an application of concepts derived from the Yovits-Ernst Model for a generalized information system. These concepts and their implications are applied to a management decision model for a hypothetical production control problem. The purpose of this investigation is to demonstrate that the theory of the Yovits-Ernst…

The purpose of the Iranian Documentation Centr (Irandoc) was to collect that portion of the world's literature which was pertinent to Iran's research interests, to organize that material, and to promote its use by Iranian researchers. Stated more succinctly, Irandoc's purpose was to obtain ready access to the world's scientific literature in order…