This publication documents the initial phase for development of an exchange system for information and data germane to recreation and leisure time. Section I includes proceedings from the National Recreation and Park Literature Retrieval Consultation, wherein retrieval and dissemination, the status of recreation and park information systems, the…

The problems and prospects faced by involving the nonprint informational units in interlibrary communication and information networks are described. Nonprint materials are defined as those materials not totally dependent on the printed word for meaning. Nonprint materials were further identified as storage devices for information or…

Reference service is defined as the mediation by a librarian between the need structures of users and the structures of information resources. The general process by which reference librarians accomplish this is outlined as including the phases of question clarification, question translation, search strategy formulation, search execution, delivery…

The planning, design, development and field testing of an instructional system for the training of educational disseminators/evaluators who are named "Educational Information Consultants" is reported. A modular training program is described covering the acquisition of knowledge, skills, and attitudes required to perform effectively in…

This paper explains DASM, a package of programs and routines for Direct Access Storage Management on 70/564 disc packs. Its basic unit of data is a record. DASM processes (retrieves and maintains) records by techniques which require the user to reference a record by its name (both record and file name). The steps through which a user can create a…

The thesaurus is intended as a preliminary standardization and clarification of terms used to index special education instructional materials throughout the Special Education Instructional Materials Centers/Regional Media Centers (IMC/RMC) Network. The majority of entries are approved descriptors appearing in the selected standard, the Thesaurus…

Contents: Developmental program for a center for information services; Preliminary specifications (hardware and software) for a center for information services; On the development of social science information and documentation services; Joint design and development of library systems; The library and human memory. (For Part I see LI 004 165)…

The following papers were presented at an invitational conference on cataloging standards: (1) "Canadiana Meets Automation;" (2) "The Union Catalogues in the National Library - The Present Condition;" (3) "A Centralized Bibliographic Data Bank;" (4) "The Standardization of Cataloguing;" (5) "The…

The author discusses information retrieval systems with particular emphasis on the assignment of descriptor terms. She first explains the method of determining terms by deriving key words from a title or abstract, a procedure that can often be carried out by a computer. After discussing the problems of derived indexing, the author explains the…

Cost effectiveness of the QUERY program for searching the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) data base has been an important issue at Auburn University. At least two broad categories of costs are associated with information retrieval from a data base such as ERIC: fixed costs or overhead and data base associated costs. The concern at…

A user contacts a reference librarian when he needs assistance to solve a methodological problem in getting information from the scholarly record. The reference librarian then takes on the user's problem. There are two responses the reference librarian can make: (1) teach the user how to access the scholarly record for his immediate purpose, or…

A computerized library of references to integral neutron experiments has been developed at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory at Livermore. This library serves as a data base for the systematic retrieval of documents describing diverse critical and bulk nuclear experiments. The evaluation and reduction of the physical parameters of the experiments…

This paper demonstrates an approach which enables one to reduce in a systematic way the immense complexity of a large body of knowledge. This approach provides considerable insight into what is known and unknown in a given academic field by systematically and pragmatically ordering the information. As a case study, the authors selected…

An attempt is made to provide a brief outline of the present situation with regard to the language used for computer retrieval. This language is increasingly based on descriptors and thesauri, which contain the key words for manual, mechanical or electronic data retrieval. After a review of the general problem, the document deals with techniques…

Documents announced with VT numbers only in the Volume 5 Number 1 issue (VT 014 981) of "Abstracts of Research and Related Materials in Vocational and Technical Education" (ARM) are included in this microfiche set. Microfiche availability for these documents is shown on the ARM resume as MF AVAILABLE IN VT-ERIC SET. The microfiche set is arranged…