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Posey, Edwin D. – 1984
A major factor in the amazing success of the microcomputer is its inherent ability to free the user from dependence on a large central computing facility with its attendant frustrations. Almost from the beginning, however, there has been pressure to integrate the micro with a more powerful host facility. There are both technical and political…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Case Studies, Centralization, Computer Oriented Programs
O'Connor, Bridget; Levinson, Cynthia, Ed. – 1984
The audio teleconference summarized in this report joined six state education agencies (Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas) and the National Institute of Education with experts nationally and abroad for 3 days in April 1984. Presentations summarized include (1) "The Need to Consider Alternative Delivery,"…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Distance Education, Information Networks, Instructional Innovation
Cheney, B. J., Ed. – 1984
The first of two volumes of a conference proceedings, this document contains the welcome, the opening, the keynote addresses, and the invited papers, as well as a submitted paper by John Gillam which was not available for publication in the pre-prints (Volume 2) prior to the conference. Three addresses are not included in these proceedings and…
Descriptors: Computers, Databases, Information Networks, Information Retrieval
Cheney, B. J., Ed. – 1983
The second of two volumes of a conference preceedings, this volume contains the preprints of five submitted papers, which are published as submitted by the authors: M. Broadbent and L. B. McIntyre, "Information Management: Promise and Reality"; E. Spoor, "Management Information from Library Systems"; R. Walsh, "Integrated…
Descriptors: Databases, Information Retrieval, Interlibrary Loans, Library Associations
Carey, John; Dozier, David – 1985
This evaluation report focuses on a broad range of issues associated with the work of the Electronic Text Consortium (consisting of San Diego State University, University of Wisconsin, University of Nebraska, and WGBH Boston), whose year-long task was to develop and test a variety of electronic text services and to assess which configurations of…
Descriptors: Computers, Electronic Equipment, Field Tests, Higher Education
Department of External Affairs, Ottawa (Ontario). – 1984
Some of the major trends in the merging of videotex and personal computer technology are outlined in this promotional brochure, one of 10 in a series on videotex, a system which uses standard transmission links to transmit information in text and graphics to a television set or computer monitor. Topics addressed include the NAPLPS standard (North…
Descriptors: Computer Graphics, Computer Software, Display Systems, Foreign Countries
Pollard, Jim; Holznagel, Don – Report to Decision Makers, 1984
Decision makers must address the issues of (1) just what are electronic communications? (2) how will they help me teach, administer, or survive? and (3) what will it cost in time and money? Electronic mail allows the sending of letters, memos, and messages to anyone who uses the same electronic mail system, and provides most of the options that…
Descriptors: Computers, Costs, Databases, Information Networks
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1984
The proceedings of 34 workshops held to consider ways of solving the problems of black single mothers, held in 1984 in different cities, are collected in this report. All of the workshops were part of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority's pilot program, "Summit II: A Call to Action in Suppprt of Black Single Mothers," an effort to strengthen the…
Descriptors: Black Family, Black Mothers, Black Organizations, One Parent Family
Hoffman, Marie T. – 1985
The report describes the Dissemination Model Assistance Project (DMAP), designed to assist state education agencies to comply with requirements of P.L. 94-142 (The Education For All Handicapped Children Act) for a comprehensive system of Personnel Development, specifically the dissemination and adoption of proven practices. The project drew on…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Information Dissemination
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Morrison, Joseph F., Jr. – NALLD Journal, 1974
Descriptors: Autoinstructional Aids, Dial Access Information Systems, Individualized Instruction, Information Networks
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Wilcox, Alice E.; Marshall, Nancy H. – RQ, 1974
Minnesota Interlibrary Teletype Exchange attempts to provide accessibility to all library resources in the state for all citizens, with communication by TWX. Wisconsin Interlibrary Loan Service has similar aims, and has started with the University of Wisconsin-Madison library system. There is a pilot project to interfact the two networks. (LS)
Descriptors: College Libraries, Information Services, Interlibrary Loans, Library Cooperation
Trimm, Maureen – 1977
The Mountain-Valley Library System (MVLS), a cooperative of 19 public and academic libraries in nine northern California counties, performed a cost study of its interlibrary delivery system during fall, 1977. This report discusses the results of item count for all 62,000 materials handled in the system during a two-month sample period and projects…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Comparative Analysis, Cost Effectiveness, Delivery Systems
Mezirow, Jack; And Others – 1975
Project IDEA (Innovation Dissemination for the Education of Adults), a 2-year experimental program in the utilization of innovation, was designed to demonstrate the feasibility of a comprehensive strategy for disseminating and facilitating the utilization of selected program innovations in adult education. Implementation of this strategy involved…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Demonstration Programs, Educational Innovation, Information Dissemination
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National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC. – 1976
This document reports on two projects jointly sponsored by the National Academy of Science (NAS) (USA) and the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas (CONICET) (ARGENTINA). The first is the creation of a telex network for scientific libraries and documentation centers in Argentina, designed to improve access to, and delivery…
Descriptors: Computers, Foreign Countries, Information Dissemination, Information Networks
Farace, Richard V.; Mabee, Timothy – 1977
This paper reviews a variety of analytic procedures that can be applied to network data, discussing the assumptions and usefulness of each procedure when applied to the complexity of human communication. Special attention is paid to the network properties measured or implied by each procedure. Factor analysis and multidimensional scaling are among…
Descriptors: Cluster Grouping, Communication (Thought Transfer), Computer Programs, Factor Analysis
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