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Interuniversity Communications Council (EDUCOM), Boston, MA. – 1969
The Master Technical Plan is divided into the following four main parts: (1) "Indroduction." (2) "A Description of the Proposed National Medical Retardation Information and Resource Center (NMRIRC)," consists of a series of descriptions of how the national center will serve its various organizational and individual…
Descriptors: Information Centers, Information Needs, Information Systems, Mental Retardation
Gulko, Warren W. – 1970
The primary mission of the WICHE Management Informations Systems Program is to help colleges and universities develop improved management systems and methods of resource allocation. A related aim is to develop procedures which facilitate exchange of comparable data among institutions. A necessary part of such exchanges will be a standard taxonomy…
Descriptors: Classification, Higher Education, Information Systems, Management Systems
Brien, Richard H. – 1970
Among many diverse pressures on higher education, there are 5 major stresses which together have produced a crisis in university management: the growing student population, rising costs, a rapidly changing demand for programs, student demands for relevance, and an increasingly repressive public environment. Although some academicians fear the…
Descriptors: College Administration, Higher Education, Information Systems, Management Systems
Forest Service (USDA), Berkeley, CA. Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station. – 1969
Although designed to process personal reference collections maintained by researchers, Famulus is suitable for a large number of other applications. For this purpose it can be regarded as a general-purpose system. This manual presents it as such a system. The eight main Famulus programs described are: "Edit"--writes punched card input onto tape.…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Data Processing, Guides, Information Processing
Shank, Russell; And Others – 1971
The recommendations of this study are: (1) The western provinces of Canada should move toward making available to the university libraries of the region, the prospective benefits of a magasystem organization during the next ten years. (2) There is no present need or justification for mounting an immediate crash program to create the computer-based…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Computers, Information Services, Information Systems
Minker, Jack; And Others – 1972
The Maryland Refutation Proof Procedure System (MRPPS) is an interactive experimental system intended for studying deductive search methods. Although the work is oriented towards question-answering, MRPPS provides a general problem solving capability. There are three major components within MRPPS. These are: (1) an inference system, (2) a search…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Computer Programs, Deduction, Experimental Programs
Lawson, Rodger S. – 1973
This report recommends a course of action for the State of Michigan to follow in developing a comprehensive labor market information system as a basis for planning educational curricula and for delivering other manpower or human resource development services. The author gives a broad conceptual definition of a comprehensive manpower information…
Descriptors: Databases, Information Sources, Information Systems, Labor Force
Parker, Edwin B. – 1973
The influence of social trends, economic trends and developments in information technology on the information needs of the people of the United States is examined in this essay. The focus is on the period from 1975 to 1980, a time close enough to the present that some projections and predictions may be based on more than guesswork, yet far enough…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Information Needs, Information Science, Information Systems
Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, Boulder, CO. National Center for Higher Education Management Systems. – 1972
This document serves to display several of the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS) tools as they relate to California State University, Fullerton, which is serving as a pilot implementation site for the California State University and Colleges System for the application of currently available NCHEMS products. Full…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Administration, Higher Education, Management Information Systems
Redstone Scientific Information Center, Redstone Arsenal, AL. – 1972
The major emphasis of this workshop is on "Technology Transfer." Although there appear to be many definitions of technology transfer, the basic concept is always the same -- finding ways to get technology out of the laboratory and into industrial or governmental applications. It is also clear that so far technology transfer has not been…
Descriptors: Information Services, Information Systems, Library Cooperation, National Libraries
Acridge, Charles W.; Ford, Tim M. – 1972
The purposes of this manual are to set forth the scope and procedures for the maintenance and operation of the University of California facilities Data System (FDX) and to serve as a reference document for users of the system. FDX is an information system providing planning and management data about the existing physical plant. That is, it…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities, Educational Planning, Facilities, Facility Utilization Research
Johnson, Renee P.; Carter, Wanda D. – 1972
The acquisitions and processing staff of the Council for Exceptional Children Information Center has prepared the manual in order to clarify and document procedures now in effect at the Center, to assist in training new personnel, and to provide a model for other information centers. All steps involved in the acquisition and processing of…
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Services, Gifted, Guidelines, Handicapped Children
Etnyre, Vance; And Others – 1972
GENIRAS (Generalized Information Storage, Retrieval, and Application System) is the name given to a computer-aided information system designed for the storage, retrieval, analysis, manipulation, and display of records, files, and associated data. It is intended to characterize the integration of the data storage and retrieval functions of…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Computers, Educational Administration, Guides
Feldman, N. E. – 1970
Community antenna television (CATV) is particularly important because of its potential for economically supplying a large number of channels, for providing viewer feedback, and for at least partially shifting the basis of programing support from the advertiser to the viewer. This study examines these aspects of CATV in order to accomplish the…
Descriptors: Cable Television, Educational Television, Information Services, Information Systems
Tiedeman, David V. – 1968
The author provides a rationale for the computer making a great impact in the area of vocational counseling. He suggests the Informational System for Vocational Decisions (ISVD) and recommends a process whereby data about educational, military, and vocational opportunities are turned by each inquirer into information about a personally-determined…
Descriptors: Career Planning, Computer Oriented Programs, Educational Technology, Information Systems
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