This handbook explains the components of the North Carolina Career Information and Guidance Data Base. (This database is a three-volume statewide career information and guidance system that is being built to offer counselors and clients computerized access to standardized occupational and educational information.) Outlined in the handbook are the…

The Naval Enlisted Professional Development Information System (NEPDIS) was designed to function as a fully computerized information assembly and analysis system to support labor force, personnel, and training management. The NEPDIS comprises separate training development, instructional, training record and evaluation, career development, and…

This 5-year plan is based on "A Comprehensive Plan for Instructional and Administrative Use of Computers in the Virginia Beach Public Schools" ("The Pogrow Report," completed in December 1984) and the "Task Force Report on Information Systems" (completed in July 1988). These reports document the importance of making…

This guide begins by describing the OCLC database, including ways in which it is used by librarians and library patrons; countries reached by OCLC; programs intended to enrich the database, e.g. retrospective conversion projects; cataloging formats (books, serials, sound recordings, musical scores, audiovisual media, maps, archives and…

Hypertext can bring much to the teaching of writing. Specifically, it combines the product and process approaches to writing. What can be taught about writing, by teachers and textbooks, is what cannot be learned from reading written products. What can and must be taught is the process by which those products were produced. Because hypertext is…

This report describes a project undertaken by Scholastech, a public charity addressing the development needs of computing educators, which was designed to advocate and support the increased use of free software in the college curriculum. The first of five sections provides a brief overview and statement of project objectives, i.e., to serve…

This report from the governor-appointed Council on Library and Network Development (COLAND), which makes recommendations for updating the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction's library automation policy, comprises a summary of the council's recommendations and 14 issue papers. These papers, which make up the major part of the report, are…

The Vocational Education Data System (VEDS) data base was created as a result of the Vocational Education Amendments of 1976. VEDS statistics were to be collected in the form of state-aggregate data (that is, state-level data is submitted by each state, based upon records and data collected by the state for this and other purposes); and VEDS data,…

This report summarizes the first year activities of the Library and Information Resources for the Northwest (LIRN) Program of the Fred Meyer Charitable Trust. LIRN is one of three regional programs of the Trust and is active in the states of Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington. The LIRN Program is aimed at making needed information more…

This paper describes a series of proposed analyses that would make use of existing information from national surveys of the school-aged population and other large-scale databases in order to illuminate trends in the makeup, life circumstances, schooling, and educational achievement of the population of United States children that is eligible for…

The purpose of the National Education Practice File (NEPF) was to find out from educational practitioners what types of materials would be of value to them; to locate the types of information identified; and to make this information available to them through the development of a computerized file of practitioner-oriented materials. The 2-year,…

Papers on bibliography, cataloging, and classification presented at the 1984 IFLA general conference include: (1) "Bibliographic Control: Zimbabwe's Present Practices and Hopes for the Future" (Angeline S. Kamba, Zimbabwe); (2) "Classification and Subject Cataloguing in Kenya" (Margaret N. Muriuki, Kenya); (3)…

This article presents a managerial experience with a web-based course on data base technology for enterprise management. The course has been developed and managed by a Department of Industrial Engineering in Brazil in a Public University. Project's managerial experiences are described covering its conception stage where the Virtual Learning…

Ten Texas community colleges participated in a fall, l976, college withdrawal survey, yielding a total of 1,102 responses. Students classified as "illegal/undefined" majors accounted for 32% of withdrawals, followed by "university transfer/academic" majors (27%), "undecided" (21%), and…

In a given urban area it is common that different public agencies and offices attempt to gather diverse data with no mutual coordination or awareness of each others' activities. This picture of varied and uncoordinated data needs reflects a lack of established information relationships and the need for an urban information system. In this study an…