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Platt, Naomi Dornfeld – 1982
The effect of word processing equipment on the future medical secretarial science curriculum was studied. A literature search focused on word processing and the medical and allied health professions, word processing and business education, and futuring of and changes in the secretarial science curriculum. Questionnaires to identify various aspects…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations, Curriculum Development, Educational Research, Futures (of Society)
University of Science, Penang (Malaysia). – 1983
A survey of 88 users of SISMAKOM, a computerized selective dissemination of information (SDI) and document delivery service provided by the Universiti Sains Malaysia and four other Malaysian universities, was conducted in August 1982 in order to collect data about SISMAKOM and to assess the value of a computerized SDI service in a developing…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Databases, Developing Nations, Information Retrieval
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Törmä, Sanna; Vakkari, Pertti – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2004
This study elaborated relations between digital library use by university faculty, users' discipline and the availability of key resources in the Finnish National Electronic Library (FinELib), Finnish national digital library, by using nationwide representative survey data. The results show that the perceived availability of key electronic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Libraries, Use Studies, College Faculty
Richards, Mary – 1987
This report describes a three-stage catalog use study conducted at the University of Wisconsin-Stout from 1982 through 1986 to determine the types of searches conducted and search success rates for both the card and online catalogs during the library's transition to the DataPhase Automated Library Information System (ALIS). Phase I, conducted…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Card Catalogs, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education
Gorman, Kathleen L. – 1983
Primarily intended to generate a demographic profile of the typical student user of Minnesota University's Walter Library, this follow-up to a 1983 study was also designed to ascertain which areas, materials, and services are used most frequently by students, what activities occupy students during their visits to the library, and why students…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, College Students, Demography, Higher Education
Henry, Marcia Klinger – 1989
A study of "Grateful Med," an interface to Medline, was conducted at California State University/Northridge to discover how efficiently students enrolled in graduate-level research methods classes in health sciences and communicative disorders could access Medline using Grateful Med, what the average costs would be, and how frequently…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Computer Software Evaluation, Cost Effectiveness, Gateway Systems
Barry, Dana Malloy – 1986
The use of personal computers by juniors and faculty at Clarkson University, an engineering college, was investigated in December 1985 as a followup to a 1984 study. Starting in August 1983, the university required entering freshmen to purchase their own personal computer, the Zenith Data System Z-100. Randomly selected, a total of 15 faculty…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Science Education, Computer Software
Latham, Sheila – 1985
Based on a literature search, surveys of student library needs and library collections, and an evaluation of services available from participating educational institutions and local public and school libraries, it is concluded that library support for students enrolled in distance education programs offered through the Chinook Educational…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Consortia, Costs, Distance Education
Melhuish, E. C.; And Others – 1986
Part of a longitudinal study of women and their first-born children who have different employment and day care experiences during the children's first three years of life, this study focuses on the socioemotional development of children at 18 months of age, who had received at least nine months of continuous day care. Particular attention is given…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Day Care, Early Childhood Education, Emotional Development
Oates, William R.; And Others – 1986
Technologically Advanced Families (Taffies) were profiled in a study that compared media technologies penetration in North Carolina with national media penetration data. Telephone surveys were conducted in February 1986 by journalism students at the University of North Carolina. Subjects interviewed were 585 North Carolina households to determine…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Demography, Family Environment, Media Research
Tucker, Debbie – 1986
A study was conducted at Cincinnati Technical College (CTC) to determine why students were underutilizing the Learning Resource Center (LRC), as well as to assess the opinions of students who did use the collection and services of the LRC. Telephone surveys were conducted by LRC staff members with 142 of 360 randomly selected students in the study…
Descriptors: College Libraries, College Planning, Community Colleges, Learning Resources Centers
Deasy, Richard J. – 1984
The Maryland Task Force on the Use of Computers in Instruction conducted a statewide survey of the following components of a successful computer education program: planning; curriculum development; staff development; computer use; instructional equity; selection, maintenance, and evaluation of hardware and courseware; and parent and community…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
Connaway, Lynn Silipigni – 1987
This report on a study of the acquisition policies and procedures of the Mesa College Library (Grand Junction, Colorado) begins by discussing the techniques used for data collection, including: (1) measurement of shelflist cards; (2) calculation of average imprint date, accession date, number of circulations, price, and year of latest circulation;…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Graphs, Higher Education, Library Acquisition
Bowden, Russell – 1987
This state-of-the-art report presents the current IFLA position on library education and training and describes some of the experiences that occurred from 1980 to 1987 on which this position is based. These are: (1) IFLA-Unesco (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) pre-conference seminars held in Manila (1980),…
Descriptors: Archives, Developing Nations, Documentation, Foreign Countries
Miura, Irene; Hess, Robert D. – 1983
Three studies give evidence to support informal reports of sex differences in computer access, interest, and use in the school-aged population. In the first study, a survey of 87 middle and upper income students in grades 5 to 8 revealed that more boys than girls owned home microcomputers and that use of the home computer also differed by gender.…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Access to Education, Computer Literacy, Computer Science Education
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