The assessment responses in the following articles by Charles H. Buzzell, David V. Tiedman and Jacob J. Kaufman are offered to provide the reader with reference points for determining the usefulness of MISOE. Each assessor responded from a professional perspective. (Editor)

This paper describes one child care agency's use of a management information system to provide data swiftly, accurately, and in a usable form. (ST)

A regionally organized program for serials bibliography is proposed because of the large volume of complex data needing control and the many purposes to which the data can be put in support of regional or local needs. (2 references) (Author)

The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre is concerned with the retrieval, evaluation, synthesis, and dissemination of structural data obtained by diffraction methods. This article (Part I is EJ053033) describes the work of the center and deals with the organization and maintenance of a computerized file of numeric crystallographic structural…

Since an author's use of articles and (personal) pronouns is particularly sensitive to the variation in the degree of formality of his writing, it might seem that the terms of the opposition (romance, novel) might be quantitatively distinquished, using information about articles and pronouns. Author attempts such a project. (Author/RK)

Investigated empirically through post mortem item-examinee samplings were the relative merits of two alternative procedures for allocating items to subtests in multiple matrix sampling and the feasibility of using the jackknife in approximating standard errors of estimate. (Editor)

The formation of a single, correlated set of data elements, accomplished by merging sixteen commercial and national bibliographic data bases, and subsequent improvements in current awareness and information retrieval activities are described. The correlation is compatible with most existing and proposed data-element standards. (27 references)…

Article describes how badge input and data collection terminals raise productivity and support new library services at the University of Maryland. (HB)

Article discusses the desirability and feasability of establishing a national data bank for student mental health. (Author/RK)

The philosophy and objectives of ERIC are outlined and examined with respect to questioning what kinds of data systems would best serve the needs of teachers. (TW)

Methods for retrieval of information on chemical compounds utilizing several computer data bases are compared to determine scope of data base coverage. Preparation of search questions is outlined and comparative results are reported indicating the yield from each data base. (6 references) (Author/NH)

Northwestern University's Remote Information Query System (RIQS), an information storage and retrieval system characterized by a mixture of data structures for the internal record organization, is discussed. On-line and batch mode search capabilities handle both textual and quantitative information. Other system characteristics, capabilities and…

PMIS is a computer-based planning and management information system for local school districts. This report centers on the PMIS data bases that contain school system data by reviewing the major phases involved in their creation, explaining the factors that caused the unique orientation of the data bases, reviewing the two tasks that comprise the…

Four operational systems for searching and retrieving information from the ERIC data base are described. (NH)