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Download full textKINKADE, ROBERT G.; VAN COTT, HAROLD P. – 1967
EVALUATED WAS THE FEASIBILITY OF USING A PILOT INFORMATION CLEARINGHOUSE AS A RESEARCH TOOL FOR DEFINING DESIGN REQUIREMENTS FOR AN ADVANCED BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION CENTER. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES WERE (1) TO DEVELOP A METHOD FOR STUDYING THE SCIENCE INFORMATION REQUIREMENTS OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENTISTS, (2) TO EVALUATE THE FEASIBILITY OF USING THE METHOD…
Descriptors: Biology, College Science, Information Centers, Information Needs
Helde, Joan P., Ed.; Stanley, Janet, Ed. – 1979
Papers, workshop sessions, and official business of the Association for Population/Family Planning Libraries and Information Centers (APLIC) are presented in the proceedings of this annual conference. The presidential address by Richard Hankinson is followed by the keynote address, in which Ansley J. Coale discusses Malthus and the population…
Descriptors: Demography, Family Planning, Information Centers, Information Services
Ofiesh, Gabriel D. – 1968
Guidelines for the planning, purchase, and utilization of dial access information systems for educational instruction were researched and studied, and incorporated into a handbook for educators. Among the questions asked by the investigating committee were: (1) costs involved in such a system for educational purposes? (2) What is the number and…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Data Collection, Dial Access Information Systems, Educational Technology
Knowles, Malcolm S. – Southeastern Librarian, 1976
Non-traditional study has brought equivalency programs for adults, in-service education programs, institutes and special courses, continuing education centers, and external degrees. The key features of the non-traditional approach to education are redefinition of the roles of student and teacher, the use of learning contracts, and the multiplicity…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, External Degree Programs, Information Centers
Terbille, Charles I. – 1975
A staff improvement course was developed by an intern at the technical information center (TIC) at Owens-Illinois, Inc. (O-I). First an analysis was made of the information center itself--its goals, services, literature search procedures, information sources, and the function of the information representative-analysts. Next a comparison was made…
Descriptors: Databases, Information Centers, Information Services, Information Sources
Kenney, Brigitte L. – 1970
Special libraries and information centers in Indiana were surveyed in the fall of 1968. A compilation, with some interpretation of the questionnaire data from 70 libraries, is presented. The major recommendations of this report are improved communications among all librarians and improved bibliographic tools and methods. Specific recommendations…
Descriptors: Information Centers, Library Collections, Library Cooperation, Library Surveys
Schwartz, Eugene S.; And Others – 1970
The design, implementation and operation of the Computer Search Center of IIT Research Institute, an information center to educate and link industry and academic institutions to chemical and other scientific information systems, is described. Format conversion, profile input, search and output programs developed over a two-year period are detailed…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Computer Programs, Education, Industry
Datsenko, V. P.; Zaytsev, N. G. – 1967
Organization of communication between the center of an automated system of information exchange and the subscribers to the system is described. The three requirements are: (1) those technical communication means must be chosen which will provide effective and convenient avenues for calls from the subscribers to the center, (2) the required…
Descriptors: Automation, Computers, Data Processing, Information Centers
Black, Donald V.; Grieb, William E. – 1968
The report, based on information gathered by System Development Corporation in its role as consultant to the Division of Dental Health, defines the areas of need for planning an effective operational library and information center within the Division's proposed new Dental Health Center Building, San Francisco. A course of action is plotted that…
Descriptors: Costs, Dental Health, Information Centers, Information Services
Duckworth, Winston H. – 1969
Responsibility for operating the Defense Ceramic Information Center (DCIC) was assigned to Battelle in May 1967. This report tells of accomplishments during the first two years of the assignment. The mission, scope and operational standards of the Center are defined, and the report describes the nature and distribution of the various products and…
Descriptors: Ceramics, Conferences, Costs, Financial Support
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1974
Hearings were held on a "Joint resolution to authorize and request the President to call a White House conference on library and information services in 1976." The purpose of the conference would be to develop recommendations for further improvement and growth of the nation's libraries and information centers in order to make information…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Financial Support, Information Centers, Information Services
Bomar, Cora Paul; And Others – 1973
The ten articles which comprise this collection are intended to stimulate creative thinking about ways to improve existing educational media selection centers and to develop new ones. The authors share their professional judgments about how to organize, staff, administer and equip centers, how to use them to evaluate media, and how they work as…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Centers, Educational Media, Guides, Information Centers
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. – 1973
Senate Joint Resolution 40, introduced January 26, 1973, authorizes and requests the President to call a White House Conference on Library and Information Sciences in 1976. The purpose of the Conference will be to develop recommendations for the improvement of the nation's libraries and information centers, and will be planned and conducted under…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Hearings, Information Centers, Information Science
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
Standera, Oldrich – 1971
The Text-Pac System is capable of generating indexes and bulletins to provide a current information service without the selectivity feature. Indexes of the accumulated data base may also be used as a basis for manual retrospective searching. The manual search involves searching computer-prepared indexes from a machine readable data base produced…
Descriptors: Automatic Indexing, Computers, Indexes, Indexing
