The General Information Processing System (GIPSY) of the Merrick Computing Center is a user dominated system. It can be used to manipulate and retrieve both numeric and alphabetic material. One of its most interesting uses is in the selection and retrieval of records and documents or of selected entries from records and documents. It has been used…

Three outlines prepared by an ERIC Clearinghouse to assist in the classification of subject matter in the field of educational facilities. The first outline contains elements of the educational environment which are related to facilities. The second is concerned with the design, development and administration of those facilities. The third section…

The problem of determining the optimal cross-reference structure for a given index and for a given community of users is discussed. A cross-reference structure is represented as a graph in which the nodes are index terms and the links are relations between index terms. In order to clarify the concept of 'level of cross-referencing' the…

This report is a survey of five on-line retrieval systems that, with one exception, have been used to demonstrate on-line access to the recently developed Committee on Scientific and Technical Information (COSATI) inventory of government sponsored work now in progress in the area of information sciences and technology. The report was prepared to…

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…

The work reported here was performed between 1 June 1967 and 31 May 1968 under Task I of the contract between Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) and the National Science Foundation (NSF). The objective of this contract was to achieve an operational, integrated, man-machine system for manipulating information about chemical substances. The contract…

The Trait Treatment Interaction (TTI) Process approach is particularly adapted to the study of information-processing by receivers of information presented in the media. Differences in people's experiences do lead to different cognitive structures. Different people use the same machinery of perceiving, coding, storing, and retrieving. Neverthless,…

This study is based on an earlier investigation by Brant and Trabasso, in which it was demonstrated that 4-year-old children could perform transitive inferences when training forced information encoding by involving questions about two comparative dimensions of an object (long and short). The present study was designed to examine the sources of…

This paper presents a philosophical statement on the problem of data comparability. The discussion is intended to provide guidance in determining the direction of the information exchange procedures project of the NCHEMS (National Center for Higher Education Management Systems) at WICHE (Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education).…

The existing volume and increasing growth rate of documented information has resulted in numerous efforts to construct operational Document Storage and Retrieval Systems, as a practical solution to the demand for information storage and retrieval. Accompanying the surge to build more and better and bigger Document Retrieval Systems (DRSs), was the…

This paper is a survey of some of the major semantic models that have been developed for automated semantic analysis of natural language. Current approaches to semantic analysis and logical interference are based mainly on models of human cognitive processes such as Quillian's semantic memory, Simmon's Protosynthex III and others. All existing…

The most commonly stated and demonstrated shortcoming of the employment interview is its lack of reliability. Yet Wagner (1949) was able to conclude that the reliability of an employment interview is situation and interviewer specific. In this study, the author investigated the interviewer's scoring system, the way he weighs and combines the…

This report is a detailed manual of the information specialist's duties at the Nuclear Safety Information Center. Information specialists scan the literature for documents to be reviewed, procure the documents (books, journal articles, reports, etc.), keep the document location records, and return the documents to the plant library or other…

As part of a short (five-hour) "package" or "module" of computer instruction, this booklet can be inserted into existing courses. It is aimed at the problem of giving large numbers of liberal-arts students a "literacy" in computation -- cheaply, feasibly, and with minimum facilities, staff, and administrative…

The materials of a library, exemplified by books, have traditionally been viewed as presenting two aspects involving two distinct problems: their description and control as unique items, and their treatment as sources of information on various subjects. But this view has tended to overlook a third fundamental aspect: that of the "works" which are…