THIS DESCRIPTIVE OVERVIEW OF CHEMICAL INFORMATION TRANSFER ACTIVITIES AND SYSTEMS COVERS THE FULL RANGE OF INFORMATION SERVICES FROM TRADITIONAL PUBLICATION SERVICES THROUGH THE DEVELOPING COMPUTER-BASED SERVICES. THE REPORT IS CONCERNED WITH DOCUMENTATION RATHER THAN ORAL COMMUNICATION AND WITH RECOGNIZED INFORMATION SYSTEMS RATHER THAN INFORMAL…

DESCRIBED ARE THE FUNCTIONS AND OPERATIONS OF THE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL CENTER ON THE DISADVANTAGED (IRCD). AS A CLEARINGHOUSE OF THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER OF THE U.S. OFFICE OF EDUCATION'S BUREAU OF RESEARCH, IRCD GATHERS, CATALOGS, CATEGORIZES, ABSTRACTS, AND INTERPRETS PUBLISHED AND UNPUBLISHED MATERIAL ON THE EDUCATION OF…

This bibliography is a compilation of literature existing in both the government and public sectors and concerning Cost/Benefits of Technical information Services and Technology Transfer. Not only was the cost-benefit to the user reflected, but consideration was given to the initial cost of information collections, the cost of processing the…

These guidelines were developed for use by personnel responsible for planning seminars and workshops to train administrators of information services and centers. Section I is a general introduction to the course manual including purpose and scope, course orientation, and topics to be covered. Section II suggests personal qualifications and…

Urban public libraries are confronted with a decreasing demand for traditional, book-oriented library services. In Detroit, library outreach programs attempted to encourage disadvantaged people to use the library with little success. The information that people needed in their everyday lives was not to be found in the library. To correct this…

The Technology Application Center (TAC) at the University of New Mexico is one of six National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) regional dissemination centers originally established to disseminate NASA technology to private industry on a regional basis. A fee is charged for TAC's services so it has been market oriented and has sought to…

The Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) is a nationwide system which acquires and stores educational information and makes this information readily available to all educators. The ERIC system contains over 40,000 education documents. As the New York ERIC liaison, the New York State Research Coordinating Unit (RCU) has actively…

Evaluated were the role and importance of request-receiver feedback in an information system. Participants were 50 university biological scientists who agreed to place requests for information by telephone with a specially established clearinghouse. One type of receiver was a scientist holding a Ph.D. in biochemistry, with over 20 years biological…

Determined were the functional design requirements of two components of an information system, the request-receiver and request-processor. The participants were 46 university biological scientists in the Washington, D.C. area who agreed to place requests by telephone with a specially established clearinghouse. A trained, experienced biological…

This report is the last in a series of papers prepared by EDUCOM (the Interuniversity Communications Council) whose aim was to develop a long-range plan for strengthening information communication and exchange among the libraries of the land-grant institutions and the National Agricultural Library (NAL). The role of EDUCOM was to substantiate the…

Since 1967 the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) Clearinghouses have produced a total of 1,514 information analysis products--bibliographies, literature reviews, state-of-the-art papers, evaluative summaries, and other special reports. This volume is a five-year cumulation of citations and abstracts of these ERIC Clearinghouses'…

The purpose of this inventory is to list a number of "major" information services and systems in the field of science and technology, either in the government or in the private sector. If a distinction is made between traditional information systems such as libraries, documentation services etc., and the wide spectrum of mechanized…

A good resource file will enable information and referral (I & R) center personnel to serve requests for information quickly and correctly. This is especially important for centers which are staffed by non-professionals, volunteers, and part-time people. The proper resource file has three important qualities: (1) it is complete (it includes…

The specific purpose of interviewing in an information and referral (I & R) Center is to obtain whatever information is necessary about the person's problems in order to link him to the community provision most relevant to it. Chapter 1 in this manual discusses what is involved in interviewing and information-giving in an I & R Center. What takes…

Libraries must be aware of the needs of the users in their funding organization, and yet, there is growing concern among library funding organizations that libraries are not fully coping with the information explosion. In fact, libraries, by not adopting new techniques to become more productive, are actually helping to cause the problems of the…