Major developments in the field of information science and technology are described for the decade 1968-1978, a period when some very important changes occurred. Information is defined as "the messages of human experience"; however, a distinction is drawn between information content and information processing. Reference is made to the…

An Information Resources Workshop was conducted October 4-6, 1977 at Springfield, Illinois by the Resource and Referral Service in cooperation with the CEMREL Regional Exchange and the Illinois Office of Education. The 72 participants represented a variety of organizations and professional training. A sorting procedure was included as part of the…

This primer is intended to acquaint public, academic and special librarians with the current state of the art in microform technology. Brief discussion is given of the advantages and disadvantages, economics, reading and printing capabilities, continuous and unitized microforms and the various analogies of microfilm technology to other technology.…

Except where older documents are listed to preserve a series, the citations are restricted to current items. Publications of all faculty, students and staff of the Case Western Reserve School of Library Science are included. The scope of the research conducted by the personnel of the school and their interests in basic and applied approaches,…

Several algorithms were investigated which would allow a user to interact with an automatic document retrieval system by requesting relevance judgments on selected sets of documents. Two viewpoints were taken in evaluation. One measured the movement of queries toward the optimum query as defined by Rocchio; the other measured the retrieval…

The scope of this bibliography has been limited to literature dealing with the design, testing and evaluation of information storage and retrieval systems. A number of papers describing the implementation of specific systems were selectively included because they contained substantial or innovative material on evaluation; however, the bibliography…

Designed with administrators, teachers, and the general public in mind, this minipackage attempts to answer critical questions about the middle school. It contains three substantive documents: a) "Middle School Questions and Answers"; b) "The Middle School: Alternatives Within the System"; and c) "Young People in Transition: Summary." Two selected…

The discussions during the two-day sessions on the ten working papers which had been previously submitted to the attendees are reported. The formal high point of the Conference came during the small group work sessions which were not recorded. Each group reported the results of its discussions, in the form of recommendations, to the final full…

The development of the removal of rigidity in library classification is traced from the Enumerative Classification of DC (1876) through the Nearly-Faceted Classification of UDC (1896), the rigidly, though fully faceted version of CC (1933), the generalized faceted structure of version 2 of CC (1949), down to the Freely Faceted Classification of…

A generalized Keynesian "general equilibrium" model, derived largely from macropolitical considerations, is presented. (Author)

Reports on the results of the comparison made between a set of 430 articles published 1969-1971 and another set of 152 articles published in 1974. Overall findings indicate that while the amount of research reported is remaining stable, the methods have improved somewhat in 1974, as compared to earlier years. (Author)

Summarizes the conclusions and recommendations of a survey of the coverage of documentation, library, and archives periodicals by six major abstracting and indexing services in 1973. (PF)

The initial and continuing education programs and an accompanying range of publication, research, and consultancy services at Leeds Polytechnic are described. (Author)

Reviews what information and software sciences have thus far accomplished in search for empirical regularities and laws and examines what theories have been developed to explain and account for regularities and laws. Specific laws and theories of information highlighted are those of Zipf, Bradford, Lotka, Mandelbrot, and Simon. (Forty references)…

This paper examines representative research in information science and compares its designs to an abstract ideal of the experimental research design. Threats to validity of conclusions are highlighted, including history, maturation, testing, instrumentation, statistical regression, selection biases, experimental mortality, and selection-maturation…