This three volume report describes a study that addressed the potential impact of information technology (IT)-based educational technology on the challenges facing the continuing education and vocational, industrial, and professional training sector of the Commission of European Communities member countries, and appropriate leading-edge…

This report presents the results of a project designed to assist the Department of Education, Office of Libraries and Learning Technologies (OLLT), and the wider community serves to identify research priorities for the 1980s in the field of library and information science. The rationale for establishing a national research agenda for the 1980s is…

The glossary of approximately 700 energy-related terms provides a useful resource to K-12 classroom teachers and curriculum developers for teaching basic energy concepts and skills. In addition, developers of the glossary suggest that it can help teachers develop supplementary language and word games for students, such as crossword puzzles. The…

This discussion guide on the conference theme, Library and Information Services for Increasing International Understanding and Cooperation, reviews changes in information technology, the international politics of information, and the U.S. role as both technological leader and proponent of the "free flow of information" which call for a…

As our industrial-based economy changes into an information-based economy, information activities will continue to permeate rehabilitation. New technology in this area includes computerized occupational information systems used to aid vocational planning. Such systems include the federal government's Job Service Matching System, the Michigan…

Presented as a public service in anticipation of the October 1979 White House Conference on Library and Information Services, the eight papers in this booklet call attention to the key issues which the American Society for Information Science (ASIS) believes have developed from proliferating information and for technological advances. Each of the…

The basic objective of this study was to examine, apparently for the first time in communications research, the impact on professional communication of an annual review publication. A sample of users and non-users of Volume 1 of the Annual Review of Information Science and Technology was identified, and questionnaires were sent to nearly 3,000 of…

This paper includes (1) a review of the history and current activities in the area of intergovernmental cooperation in the exchange of information and (2) a summary of the current state of the art in the information sciences. Relevant federal legislation, dating back to the 1930's, is discussed; the April 1968 report by the Intergovernmental Task…

Recent developments in such fields as linguistics, logic, information theory, computer science, speech act theory, and psychology can lead to a greater interdisciplinary understanding of the process of writing (defined as purposeful activity involving language use in special modes). Purposes for writing, which may be correlated with the many…

Research studies on communication in the sciences, social sciences, and technology published from 1964 through 1973 are listed in this bibliography. The 1,288 serially-numbered bibliographic items are subdivided into five broad headings: General, Structures of Communication, Discipline Oriented Studies, Communication Barriers, and Communication…

In the last 20 years the U.S. economy had changed as a result of the increase in production, processing, and distribution of information goods and services. Three information sectors--the primary sector producing information goods and services, the private bureaucracy, and the public bureaucracy--are part of a six-sector economy. Today,…

Testimony relative to the establishment of a National Commission on Library and Information Science as a continuing Federal planning agency is presented in the form of verbatim oral question and answers, prepared statements, letters and supplemental materials. List of witnesses include: (1) Grant Venn, (2) L. Quincy Mumford, (3) William S. Dix,…

This is the Senate summary on the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science Act's background and on the role of the Commission. It provides a section-by-section analysis of S. 1519 which includes: (1) citation, (2) policy, (3) establishment, (4) contributions, (5) functions, (6) membership and (7) authorization of appropriations.…

A graduate academic program in medical information science has been established at the University of California, San Francisco, for the education of scientists capable of performing research and development in information technology in the health care setting. This interdisciplinary program, leading to a Doctor of Philosophy degree, consists of an…

An information system analysis, development, and implementation program was conducted at Hamline University to create a dynamic, responsive targeted information system that would support curriculum-based requirements. Existing information system inadequacies were diagnosed; a new concept was proposed and empirically tested. The concept was put…