Adaptation of a paper presented at a regional meeting of the American Technical Association (Rochester Inst. of Technology, November 23, 1968).

A massive shift in perceptions of reality is underway, with thinkers in many disciplines beginning to move away from the traditional reductionist, mechanical world view to an ecological, holistic systems paradigm. Social implications are discussed. (AM)

Systems theory functions in enabling the researcher to study and analyze the intermediate-level political system represented by the Cooperative Extension Service interactions at the federal level. (Author)

Presents an analysis and critique of Thomas Greenfield's views on organizational theory and related matters. (IRT)

Proposes a management-oriented model for describing and studying information behavior and details the testing of the resulting hypotheses through the use of a database describing the information-related attitudes and behaviors of 560 scientists and engineers. (FM)

Seeks to provide a common theoretical foundation for all known bibliometric laws by assimilating a systemic view of the information transfer process with a thermodynamic process, i.e., the conduction of heat in solids. The resulting diffusion model establishes new definitions for informational energy and entropy consistent with corresponding…