The program is a general purpose information retrieval program which can be used with a file of fixed format documents. Designed to be used by noncomputer personnel, the program provides flexibility in search requests and output format, which enable it to satisfy users' requests for information promptly and inexpensively. To insure easy adaptation…

As part of the report on the California State Library Processing Center design and specifications, this volume is a coding manual for the conversion of catalog card data to a machine-readable form. The form is compatible with the national MARC system, while at the same time it contains provisions for problems peculiar to the local situation. This…

This report about ACCESS (Alternative Comprehensive Community Environmental Study System) is in two parts. The first part is a narrative which: (1) identifies our time as a technological era of pervasive change; (2) discusses a pilot process to test new means to help manage this change, focused at the regional level; (3) proposes a new nonprofit…

Presented in the manual are keypunching procedures with associated representative forms and keypunching cards for bibliographies and five basic types of abstracts which are used with the Control Data 3600 computer by the Michigan State University Materials Center for Handicapped Children and Youth (IMC HCY). Emphasis is given to keypunching all…

This report describes an interactive information system. It is a general purpose, free format system which can offer immediate assistance where manipulation of large data bases is required. The medical area is a prime area of application. The report is designed to serve as a manual for potential users--nontechnical personnel who will use the…

Various aspects of the Optical Mark Reader (OMR) used by the Atlanta Public School System are discussed. First considered are the required features of the OMR scanner. Following this, methods of motivating users to record data accurately are described. Finally, a description of how forms are designed for the convenience of users is provided. (PB)

The bibliography contains 308 abstracts of unclassified Rand studies dealing with various aspects of computing technology. The studies selected have all been issued during the period January 1963 through August 1971. The intention is to revise the bibliography at periodic intervals to incorporate new publications. Both subject and author indexes…

Instructional development should be based on theory rather than raw empiricism. The dimensions and possible form of an instructional theory are outlined in three premises. It was presumed that a limited set of behavior categories exist and that all behaviors can be calssed into one or more of these categories. It was also presumed that for each…

This study is one of a series of studies conducted or planned by the authors investigating the information processing strategies employed by students who are placed in a quasi-instructional setting of learning from text with questions interspersed. The subjects were 65 undergraduate students from two introductory educational psychology courses.…

This report explores the bodies of literature pertinent to the economics of information, a topic of growing interest to the information community and to economists. As used here, economics of information refers to the concepts and tools of economics as they apply to information activities. The report consists of (1) a short section on the…

Progress is reported at the 1,000,000 word level on the development of a partial syntatic analysis technique for indexing text. A new indexing subroutine for hyphens is provided. New grammars written and programmed for Machine Aided Indexing (MAI) are discussed. (ED 069 290 is a related document) (Author)

The problems of modeling a process as complex as reading are discussed, including such factors as the lack of agreement surrounding definitions of modeling, varying levels of rigor within and between models, the disjunctive categories within which models fall, and the difficulty of synthesis across fields which employ very different technical…

DATADRAW is a command language, written in FORTRAN IV, to manipulate stacks, queues, lists and trees, and to display them on the CDC 252 scope system attached to a CDC 6600. A DATADRAW primer is given, and the algorithms for updating and displaying structures are described. It is noted that DATADRAW was designed to be a simple command language…

List Processing systems are designed to facilitate production of large programs to manipulate large complex symbolic data stores. This paper presents an overview of a number of system features which are important for improving the productivity of programers working in such domains. A systems view is taken, rather than focusing just on language…

INTX is an interactive programing and debugging system operating under UCLA's URSA interactive console system. Although originally designed as a debugging aid for interactive processor development, the addition of an on-line Assembler makes it a programing system in its own right. INTX operates only on the Computer Communications 301 graphics…