Economic pressures on the information industry and on libraries are significantly affecting the nature of services and the organization of work within libraries. These effects are illustrated by three phenomena: emphasis on productivity in libraries, marketing of online database searches through libraries, and the repackaging of library services…

Maintains that national information policy should be geared to the preservation and encouragement of trial-and-error evolutionary mechanisms that will stimulate innovation in library and information services. Seventeen references are cited. (FM)

Presents an overview of nonbibliographic computerized databases in business and economics, science and technology, and the social sciences, and discusses some major issues in the field. (FM)

Reviews recent federal publications on government information, particularly in the area of general informational services, public access to government information and privacy issues, coordination of government information systems, and congressional information needs. (Author)

Describes the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) system, its products and services with special emphasis on the ERIC Clearinghouse on Information Resources. Three scenarios of search requests applicable to needs of developing nations are included. (JEG)

Describes the services and resources of the San Mateo Educational Resources Center (SMERC) and presents the results of a survey of linking agents operating within SMERC contracts, including findings about their organizational settings, educational backgrounds, marketing activities, and perceptions about the usefulness of the service. (FM)

Discussion of the design of information systems for exchanging educational research-based information focuses on the development of the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC), British Education Index (BEI), Canadian Education Index (CEI), and Australian Education Index (AEI) and examines how they meet the challenges of educational reform…

Navigating the multiple processes for accessing ever-multiplying campus information systems can be a daunting task for students, faculty, and staff. This article provides a brief overview of Identity and Access Management Services. The authors review key characteristics and components of this new information architecture and address the issue of…

Reveals that news from underdeveloped Third World nations is often structured to reflect the values of the strong political and financial nations. (CP)

The report documents activities concerned with the planning and design of a National Information Center on Deafness at Gallaudet College. Development activites included: (1) establishment of an Information Center Advisory Committee; (2) a survey of agencies, institutions, organizations, and programs serving deaf people to assess their information…

Arguing that the information needs of the rural community are largely ignored in the establishment of information systems and services, this paper: (1) identifies the unique characteristics of information users in rural areas; (2) identifies and analyzes the types of communication channels most likely to deliver the information related to…

The paper reviews the literature on information needs of parents and teachers of hearing impaired children and of the general public regarding hearing impairments. Survey results from a descriptive study on national patterns of information seeking and providing regarding hearing impairment are summarized in terms of information inquiries received…

This report describes the State of New Hampshire's Special Education Information System (SPEDIS) and presents guidelines and procedures for using SPEDIS reports on the needs of handicapped children, services provided in the state, personnel working in the education of children with handicaps, and costs of providing services to the handicapped in…

This report presents an analysis of the search query arguments of several major bibliographic utilities and shows the commonalities and differences of the query structure among the various systems. The report illustrates a symbolic metalanguage that was developed to describe and compare the search arguments. In addition, status and error messages…

The project described was designed to develop and disseminate reports on quality Indiana research and development products on vocational education to appropriate state and national target audiences; to implement a system for acquiring, organizing, storing, retrieving and disseminating research and development documents to meet the identified needs…