This report describes the videotex system, which allows access by the general public to large computer-based information sources, which contain pages of information to be displayed on suitably supplemented television receivers or newly designed videotex terminals. Some problems in introducing a videotex system suitable for today's technology which…

Using data gathered from 54 evaluation forms and 18 recorded interviews, this study focused on in-person users of the MEDLINE system at three search sites to determine the relationship between presearch interviews and user assessments of precision and concern for recall in online searches, and to determine differences in assessment characteristics…

This report describes the development and implementation of a prototype system that integrates a microfiche catalog into an online computer system for bibliographic control. Such a system permits the storage of catalog data not yet converted to digital form, data in ideographic form, data for large numbers of little-used records, and data for use…

This bibliography lists 162 unclassified - unlimited reports acquired by DDC, with their abstracts, grouped into five general subject areas: programing (computers), information retrieval, time sharing, graphics, and general applications. The topical arrangement is complemented by four indexes: corporate author/monitoring agency, personal author,…

The Wisconsin System for Instructional Management (WIS-SIM) is a computer managed instruction (CMI) system designed to improve instructional decision making in order to maximize the educational progress of each child while making efficient use of the available human, material, and financial resources within an organizational structure such as the…

This manual is designed to familiarize law students with the Legal Research Service (LEXIS), inform them of policies and procedures at the Tarlton Law School, and act as a reference tool by providing information on LEXIS not readily available elsewhere. A self-paced training manual workbook designed to assist students in developing skills needed…

In their eight years of involvement in Computer Assisted Learning, the Division of Education Research Services has assisted many authors in developing their courseware. Whether the courseware has been a short half hour module or a large course involving over a hundred hours of student time, there have been many common problems. A major objective…

The results of a survey of machine-readable data bases in Wisconsin are reported. Fifty-eight data bases accessed by Wisconsin libraries are listed alphabetically. Included in the descriptions are the name of the data base, its subject coverage, its availability, the year it began, the frequency of update, the current size of the file, the name of…

OMNITAB is an interpretive computing system that enables the nonprogramer to use a computer to perform calculations and manipulations on tabulated data without prior knowledge of computers and computer languages. Because OMNITAB is widely available, and can be used to perform a variety of operations, instructors selected it for use in a statistics…

Developed by the National Bureau of Standards, OMNITAB is a simplified computer language designed to permit the novice user to solve basic statistical functions after less than an hour of instruction. It was hoped that by providing students in introductory statistics courses with an easily understood computer language, fears of number operations…

In 1972, Main Township (Illinois) High School District 207 eliminated its inhouse data processing operation and joined Educational Management Systems (EMS), a regional data processing cooperative. EMS was created by the Institute for Educational Research (IER), which first conducted a thorough study of school district's data processing practices.…

BALLOTS (Bibliographic Automation of Large Library Operations using a Time-sharing System) is an on-line interactive library automation system that supports the acquisition and cataloging functions of the Stanford University Libraries' technical processing operations. The BALLOTS system is being implemented in a series of 11 modules. This paper…

A selective literature review of overall system design considerations in the planning of information processing systems and networks. Specific topics include but are not limited to: (1) requirements and resources analysis, (2) problems of system networking, (3) input/output and remote terminal design, (4) character sets, (5) programming problems…

The Library Information System Time-Sharing (LISTS) experiment was based on three innovations in data processing technology: (1) the advent of computer time-sharing on third-generation machines, (2) the development of general-purpose file-management software and (3) the introduction of large, library-oriented data bases. The main body of the…

A description of how the time-shared, interactive, computer-controlled, information television (TICCIT) system will be implemented with a low cost home terminal system is offered in this paper. The equipment which comprises the demonstration system is described as consisting of three major elements--home terminal, computer facility, and…