This paper describes research on the kinds of information needed by individuals in human service delivery and older persons' organizations. The Gerontological Information Program (GRIP) uses an integrated approach to gerontological information: research, systems development, and education. An information needs assessment questionnaire survey of 65…

This is the fifth annual report of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS), covering the period July 1, 1975-June 30, 1976. Supporting studies described include: the role of the Library of Congress in the national network; the impact of Federal funding programs on public libraries; a national inventory of library…

A review of expert opinion and recent literature on the critical issues and open questions relating to the economics of the scientific and technical information industry shows that there is hardly an area that does not call for more and better research--yet the need is not nearly so much for quantity as for a more coherent and meaningful pattern.…

Symposium papers presented at an Annual Meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education (Chicago, 1972), all of which concern banks of test items for use in constructing criterion referenced tests, comprise this document. The first paper, "Locally Produced Item Banks" by Thomas J. Slocum, presents information on the…

A workshop, Current Trends in Information Delivery, held in December 1974, was attended by 337 librarians, including Joseph Becker from the National Commission on Libraries and Information Services (NCLIS) who spoke about the national library network which NCLIS is proposing; Gerald Newton of the California State Library who spoke on library…

Special problems in the handling of biological information arise from the diversity of biological subject matter and the complexity of biological approaches towards phenomena of the living world. This state-of-the-art report on communications of information in the biological sciences provides information on: (1) users of biological information,…

The papers contained in this volume deal with world perspectives, population communication, new communication technology and social needs, and communication in the future. Among the papers are: "Communication and Change in Global Institutions,""Foundations for East-West Understanding,""Youth and the Future of…

This volume represents a partial collection of papers scheduled for presentation at the 37th conference of the American Society for Information Science, held October 13-17, 1974. The 57 papers are grouped into 10 sections roughly corresponding to the 10 technical sessions of the conference: implications for information utility, data base…

A means for organizing nonprint material collections which combines efficiency with effective service is presented. The principles and procedures of such collections are demonstrated and a common denominator for the computerized as well as the manually prepared catalog is established. The book's first part provides a critical introduction to…

This bulletin contains several articles on various topics concerning information science. The first article is a report on the November 1971 Seminar on Documentation and Pedagogical Information in Latin America held in Panama. The second article, entitled "Informatica," provides a discussion of information science by three Soviet writers;…

Papers presented at the seminar include an introduction to information processing which describes some techniques for use of the computer; the analysis of information systems and its role in the development of information systems; the effect on systems performance of building design and environmental standards; the concept of traditional printing…

This book deals with properties of vocabularies for indexing and searching document collections; the construction, organization, display, and maintenance of these vocabularies; and the vocabulary as a factor affecting the performance of retrieval systems. Most of the text is concerned with vocabularies for post-coordinate retrieval systems, with…

By the year 2,000 numerous changes will make this world very different from today's society. Our economy will be based on education and service related jobs instead of product-production. The population will almost double, and leisure time will increase dramatically due to increased automation. Continuous learning, often outside the formal…

For knowledge of organizational communication to increase, new concepts must be developed and correlative or even causal relationships between communication concepts and other organizational variables must be established. Here, meanings of "organization,""information,""communication," and "other organizational variables" are explicated, and three…

Population problems in both the United States and throughout the world are summarized and analyzed, pictorially and narratively, in this special newspaper supplement to "The New York Times", April 30, 1972. Part I presents the U. S. problem, with the following contributions: excerpts from President Richard Nixon's message to Congress on…