This report is intended to assist Canadian libraries in assessing potential library applications of optical disk technology. Part 1 provides a general outline of the technology and describes a number of library applications and projects. Descriptions are purposely general and illustrative in nature since the technology and its applications are…

A management information system model was designed to provide data for planning, directing, and evaluating programs for the National Origin Minority Education (NOME) office of the New Hampshire Department of Education. NOME is federally funded to provide training to local school district and community members regarding the educational needs of…

This report describes the grant proposals which funded an end-user instruction program for upper division and graduate students enrolled at a state university in California, and reviews the implementation and the evolution of the online instruction program originally funded by a $3,500 California State University Northridge Instructional…

This report describes a study on the need for and feasibility of establishing an international system for facilitating access to materials on early childhood development. The Education Commission of the States (ECS) investigated international need for and interest in the establishment of a common pool of information from international sources, and…

This Worker Trait Group Keysort Deck accompanies the reference and instructional materials found in the Career Information System (CIS) component of the Career Decision-Making (CDM) program developed by Appalachia Educational Laboratory. (Directions for the use of the keysort deck are found in the CIS professional manual, CE 019 233, and the CIS…

This collection of 32 reports presents information on a variety of dial access systems and addresses such specific issues as programming, promotion, evaluation, and community involvement. Individual reports discuss a public library's dial access service, a tape library of financial information, information services in child care, a teacher…

This collection of 22 papers from the Conference on Information in the Language Sciences held in Warrenton, Va., in 1966, sponsored by the Center for Applied Linguistics, stresses three themes: general trends, information needs of the languages sciences, and system design. Discussions attempt to formulate modern rational approaches to the complex…

The Tennessee Research Coordinating Unit (RCU) has implemented a computerized information retrieval system known as "Query," which allows for the retrieval of documents indexed in Research in Education (RIE), Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE), and Abstracts of Instructional and Research Materials (AIM/ARM). The document…

In response to a growing need for a comprehensive evaluation and cataloging of nontextbook materials in the field of health sciences, the Educational Materials Project, sponsored by the National Library of Medicine, developed a clearinghouse system called AVLINE (Audiovisual on Line) for the dissemination of information about these materials. To…

The Comprehensive Occupational Data Analysis Programs (CODAP) package is a highly interactive and efficient system of computer routines for analyzing, organizing, and reporting occupational information. Since its inception in 1960, CODAP has grown in tandem with advances in job analysis methodology and is now capable of answering most of the wide…

The document is one of three in a series of technical reports covering the control card and programing aspects of the Comprehensive Occupational Data Analysis Programs (CODAP), a highly interactive and efficient system of computer routines for analyzing, organizing, and reporting occupational information. The document contains control card…

The command language features of 11 on-line information retrieval systems are presented in terms of the functional needs of a searcher sitting at a terminal. Functional areas considered are: becoming familiar with the system, receiving help when in trouble, regulating usage, selecting a data base, formulating simple queries, expressing single…

Part of a larger effort in creating a computer-based European Documentation and Information System for Education (EUDISED), the present document contains four papers proposing specifications for procedures and formats to be incorporated in the documentation standards of EUSIDED. The first is a "Preliminary Study for the Design of a Coding…

As the fourteenth report in a series describing research in automatic information storage and retrieval, this document covers work carried out on the SMART project for approximately one year (summer 1967 to summer 1968). The document is divided into four main parts: (1) SMART systems design, (2) analysis and search experiments, (3) user feedback…

The thesaurus is divided into two parts. The first part lists descriptor terms under eight main areas of concern in foreign language instruction; the second lists terms alphabetically and includes "use" and "use for" notations. More that 500 descriptors are included. An introduction describes the work of the Information Center for Research in…