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Bosseau, Don, Ed. – Computerized Serials Systems Series, 1973
In 1961 the University of California at San Diego library began design of a computerized serials system with 700 entries. From this a sophisticated system has evolved (through three computers) with 30,810 serial entries in 1973. Using batch processing, the computer generates copies of a union list of university serials holdings, copies of serials…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Computers, Data Processing, Information Processing
Godwin, William F. – 1974
This report discusses SIGI, an operational example of a computer-based career guidance system. The system demonstrates that such a service can be performed well and at a cost within the reach of most schools. Data collected during the pilot trail indicate that students who had used SIGI were more aware of the career options open to them and the…
Descriptors: Career Education, Computers, Data Collection, Decision Making
Lingwood, David; Morris, William C. – 1974
A two-stage project generated and tested a problem-solving linkage model of dissemination and utilization (DU) processes. The first phase involved the analysis of the DU activities of four Federal agency units in order to produce the model. The overall DU process was conceptualized as a dialogue between users with information needs and suppliers…
Descriptors: Developmental Programs, Information Dissemination, Information Systems, Information Utilization
Samuelson, K.; And Others – 1973
FID/TM, an international group concerned with theory and methods of systems cybernetics and information networks, held a panel session at the 34th Annual American Society for Information Science (ASIS) Meeting in November 1971. This report contains the seven papers presented by that panel, concerning issues in global decision-making and the role…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Decision Making, Ecology, Information Networks
Aleamoni, Lawrence M.; And Others – 1973
The present study was divided into four components dealing with: (a) development of a student data tape containing both intellective and non-intellective data; (b) development of a computer-based retrieval system to be used with a student data tape; (c) development of a senior survey form to be used on graduates of Illinois institutions of higher…
Descriptors: College Students, Computer Programs, Higher Education, Information Networks
National Agricultural Library (USDA), Washington, DC. – 1971
In October 1970, the Agricultural Sciences Information Network (ASIN) Committee was established by the joint landgrant/USDA Agriculture Research Policy Advisory Committee (ARPAC). The ASIN Committee was directed to review various network concepts as a means of improving information services to professional agriculturalists in the private and…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Information Centers, Information Needs, Information Networks
Dyer, Maxwell – 1973
A discussion of the computerized Migrant Student Record Transfer System (MSRTS) is presented. The author first describes it as a functional automated system, headquartered in the Arkansas Department of Education, which serves the record transferral needs of seasonal farm migrant children as they move throughout the contiguous 48 states.…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Information Systems, Migrant Children, Migrant Education
Anders, Wolfhart H.; Draxler, Alexandra – 1971
A study looked at the possibilities for a user-based information system which could provide usable structured information about educational technology and attempted to determine how best to supply information about educational process to users. The study had three phases. The first surveyed the literature and activities of centers concerned with…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Educational Technology, Information Dissemination, Information Needs
National Bureau of Standards (DOC), Washington, DC. – 1971
Material concerning standardization activities in the area of information processing at the Federal, National and International levels is provided in this publication. Also included are related policy and procedural guideline documents. A list of Federal Government participants involved in the development of Federal Information Processing…
Descriptors: Computers, Data Processing, Government Role, Guidelines
Schipma, Peter B.; And Others – 1971
The Information Sciences section of ITT Research Institute (IITRI) has developed a Computer Search Center and is currently conducting a research project to explore computer searching of a variety of machine-readable data bases. The Center provides Selective Dissemination of Information services to academic, industrial and research organizations…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Databases, Information Retrieval, Information Storage
Molnar, Andrew R. – 1971
Both the trend toward the scientific information explosion and the trend toward equal opportunity of education are altering what we teach and how we teach. While the movement in research and development in education has been toward using systems applications to deal with these changes, there are some problems with this approach. The domain of…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Educational Objectives
Bath Univ. of Technology (England). Univ. Library. – 1971
The main findings of an investigation into the information requirements of the Social Sciences, conducted between September 1967 and December 1970, are reported. It covers the information needs of social science researchers, and of teachers in social science departments of universities. The objective of the investigation was to provide material…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Needs, Information Systems, Information Utilization
Georgia Inst. of Tech., Atlanta. Science Information Research Center. – 1971
The report presents a summary of science information research activities of the School of Information and Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology. Included are project reports on interrelated studies in science information, information processing and systems design, automata and systems theories, and semiotics and linguistics. Also…
Descriptors: Automation, Bibliographies, Computer Science, Information Processing
Consumers' Association of Canada, Ottawa (Ontario). – 1971
The possibility of creating in Canada a non-profit community information network (a set of linked data banks containing information for use by the general public) should be explored. A network to link together a set of data banks containing information for general public use would have the following merits: (1) By its effect on household…
Descriptors: Computers, Databases, Information Dissemination, Information Needs
Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw. – 1970
The aim of the conference was to hold a working discussion on problems essential to the building of thesauri, a uniform comprehension of which would make it possible to build them in a manner ensuring easier communication and exchange of information between information systems covering different ranges of subject matter, and using different…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Indexing, Information Retrieval, Information Science
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