This report on the problems facing editors of professional information and library science journals in developing and developed countries suggests broad solutions that might help to transfer and make available the surplus of products in one geographic area to another in which such products are in short supply. Areas addressed include (1)…

Concerned with the many pressures to which library education is subject all over the world, this paper concentrates on the relationship between the subject of librarianship, the subject of information science, and the accommodation of information science in library education. The emergence and domain of information science is briefly reviewed, and…

This annual report provides information on instructional programs at both the undergraduate and graduate levels and the computing facilities of the Department of Computer and Information Science, and briefly describes the interactions of the department within the university and within the professional community. A list of students awarded doctoral…

The author proposes a system using the HUC to identify all information and knowledge which can be reduced to a written, pictorial, oral, or machine readable record. The code designations, which may consist of letters, numerals, and other symbols and which average 12 to 18 characters in length, provide information in 12 fields: type of material,…

Multivariable queries can be processed in the data base management system INGRES. The general procedure is to decompose the query into a sequence of one-variable queries using two processes. One process is reduction which requires breaking off components of the query which are joined to it by a single variable. The other process,…

The National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS) is a permanent independent agency within the executive branch, established by Congress and signed into law on July 20, 1970. As specified by the enabling legislation, the Commission has been concerned in its initial year with every type of library and with all types of…

The purpose of this international conference was to analyze and discuss the fundamental aspects of education and training in information work both for specialists and users. This proceedings volume is divided into two parts. Session I concerned the training of information specialists and contains 51 invited and submitted papers. The training of…

A generalized framework for developing analytical and conceptual relationships involving the flow of information has been suggested. This paper provides further refinement, rigor, and extension for some of the earlier relationships suggested. In particular, a measure of the amount of information is defined as the difference of the value of the…

This report evaluates the engineering information services provided by the University of Calgary since implementation of the COMPENDEX (tape service of Engineering Index, Inc.) service using the IBM TEXT-PAC system. Evaluation was made by a survey of the users of the Current Information Selection (CIS) service, the interaction between the system…

An educational program has been developed in the field of information science that emphasizes the design of information storage and retrieval systems for the acquisition, processing, control, and dissemination of documents. The program leads to a Master's Degree in Information Science at the University of California. Systems analysis plays a…

It is concluded that the techniques of automatic indexing and factor analysis are appropriate tools for curriculum analysis. However, the techniques need to be refined, and more care needs to be taken to insure that the criteria for the selection of data for the study are objective. In addition to predicting future developments, the data resulting…

Remarks in this article were presented at the Conference on Management of Consolidated Research Institutions for Population Research, Washington, D.C., in February, 1970. Study is made of the process by which scientific and technical information in the population field must be identified, collected, stored, retrieved, translated, and disseminated…

Emphasis on the information science field has grown in the past several decades because of five interrelated factors: time scale changes, changes in quantity of available information, changes in nature of information requirements, changes in importance of information sources, and an increase in the number of information processing agencies. The…

The progress made on 65 contracts and grants active during 1968 in the four areas designated by the COSATI subject headings: (1) documentation and information technology, (2) language and linguistics, (3) bionics and (4) information theory are presented. Selected highlights of the program are given in the introductory chapter. This is followed by…