The reference librarians' task is to provide specific information as needed by users, rather than to teach them the mechanics of finding the information themselves. (LS)

This guide to the use of information reviews the development of Kansas Project Communicate from 1972-1976, and the Kansas State Department of Education (KSDE) computerized information service (KEDDS), which serves as the resource component of the information dissemination system. KEDDS (Kansas Educational Dissemination Diffusion system) is…

Investigated the relative merits of searching on titles, subject headings, abstracts, free-language terms, and combinations of these elements. The combination of titles and abstracts came the closest to 100 percent retrieval. (Author/PF)

The metainformational approach represents some attempts to transform the implicit retrieval information contained in primary documents to an explicit information structure. (Author/PF)

Describes the utility and applications of information retrieval thesauri and the development of the thesaurus for the DISCLOSURE data base. (PF)

False drops occur in a system of random superimposed coding for edge-notched, punched, and feature cards. Formulae for the false dropping fraction are derived, and figures and tables are given for the calculated values in the most popular scheme. (Author/LS)

Appears also in ELEMENTARY ENGLISH, v 46 n 3, March 1969, pp 372-75

The error-correcting algorithm described was constructed to examine subject headings in online catalog records for common errors such as omission, addition, substitution, and transposition errors, and to make needed changes. Essentially, the algorithm searches the authority file for a record whose primary key exactly matches the test key. If an…

This descriptive guide provides introductory information geared to aid both the user and the information manager in the use of 3RIP, an online text database system consisting of three components: (1) a retrieval system used to locate and display records, (2) a file handler used to read records from files and to write records onto files, and (3) a…

This paper describes the process of automatic extraction of implicit--global--data from explicit information by file inversion and threading. Each datum is the symbolic representation of a proposition, and as such has a number of movable parts corresponding to the ideal elements of the proposition represented; e.g., subject, predicate. A third…

The thesaurus contains approximately 4,000 terms used in indexing material for the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect. It is explained that the descriptor compilation was first developed in 1975 from existing thesauri and dictionaries. Descriptors are arranged in alphabetic, permuted and group displays, and listings include references to…

In an investigation into the process of retrieval from very long term memory, four subjects who had been out of high school from 4 to 19 years were asked to think aloud while attempting to recall the names of their high school classmates. The retrievals were found to be characterized by overshoot, systematic hypothesizing, fabrications, the…

This paper describes the content, organization, specifications, and methods of use of the CAS77 and CAS7276 online files of worldwide chemical literature, databases produced by Chemical Abstracts Service and available from System Development Corporation (SDC). The scope of the databases, their unit record, their data elements, their modes of…

THE REPORT DESCRIBES THE EFFECTS THAT A CONTROLLED VOCABULARY HAS ON THE INDEXING AND SEARCHING OPERATIONS OF THE DOCUMENT RETRIEVAL SYSTEM ESTABLISHED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON FOR THE AIR FORCE MATERIALS LABORATORY. THE SYSTEM CONTAINS ABOUT 30,000 SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL REPORTS COVERING ALL ASPECTS OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND IS CONTROLLED BY…