Describes an empirical study that investigated how well people in the information science field perform as judges of document relevance, topicality, and utility for information needs that they did not originate. Results are compared to the actual users' judgments, and the effects of experience and gender are explored. (Contains 17 references.)…

Explores the information needs, information-seeking behaviors, and work group communication patterns of 27 scientists, engineers, and managers in an industrial R&D (research and development) setting. Highlights include identifying appropriate information resources, including the World Wide Web; performing searches and retrieving relevant…

Looks for a method to formulate algorithms useful for the synthesis of Czech in machine translation where the point of departure for the synthesis can be more or less identical with the semantic representation. (Author/PF)

Describes the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC), shows how to use it, and provides a list of microfiche collection locations in Canada. (RB)

A description of the information retrieval system in a media resources center in a coeducational secondary school in Great Britain. (HB)

Including over 80,000 references, this index is the cumulation of the annual indexes of the "Horn Book Magazine" from 1924 to 1989. The index was undertaken so that subject access to 65 years of the "Horn Book Magazine" could be provided, along with access to book titles and the names of authors, illustrators, and other…

This document presents a step-by-step procedure for setting up a document library of personal word processing, database, and spreadsheet files using the Apple IIe computer and the AppleWorks subprogram database. This library, which can serve both as a running record of files created and as a means for easy retrieval, uses 10 fields or categories…

This brief review of the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) system is intended to make users more aware of (1) the system as a whole, (2) the process of indexing educational literature for the database, and (3) the role of the Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors in the overall information dissemination process. An overview of the ERIC…

This book lists 4,876 descriptors selected from the Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors, 9th Edition, with their Japanese language equivalents. It was prepared by personnel of the Center for Educational Technology at Aichi University of Education, which, since 1978, in cooperation with Unesco's Asian Programme of Educational Innovation for Development…

This paper identifies the need for a new theory of information and develops a mathematical model which distinguishes between: (1) data, as directly observable facts; (2) information, as structured collections of data; and (3) knowledge, as methods of using information. The model is based on the ideas of the binary relational model and uses the…

This article describes a course in information retrieval which is given to third-year chemistry undergraduates. (DT)

A system used by five libraries in San Antionio, Tesas, for producing catalog cards, book catalogs, and bibliographies is described. (PF)

A framework for cooperation between Library of Congress and the RTSD/ISAD/RASD Committee on Representation in Machine-Readable Form of Bibliographic Information in regard to changes in the MARC System. (LS)