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Clay, Katherine; Long, Susan – 1979
This compilation of miscellaneous information about the San Mateo Educational Resources Center (SMERC) was designed as a reference tool for SMERC linking agents, i.e., SMERC-trained personnel responsible for explaining their center's information services to subscribing agencies. It contains SMERC subscription information: listings of resources and…
Descriptors: Clearinghouses, Databases, Guides, Information Networks
Wilson, John H., Jr. – 1970
Managers' having to account for cost of information activities is here to stay. Budgeting is going to become more stringent and imaginative. Costs should not be equated with human values--psychological and subjective--which apparently many managers do, feeling that having to cost information activities is degrading. Some trends are: Buy products…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Cost Effectiveness, Economics, Federal Government
Thompson (John I.) and Co., Washington, DC. – 1967
The purpose of the survey was to collect data relating to (1) present usage of chemical information and data in the Federal community; (2) techniques and equipment now used in the acquisition, processing, and transmission of information and data; and (3) direction of plans for future chemical information services at ongoing systems. The scope of…
Descriptors: Automation, Chemistry, Federal Government, Information Dissemination
Swanson, Rowena W. – 1969
The author maintains that information entrepreneurs are necessary because of the greatly increased production of information and the increased importance of information for science and technology. The roles of the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 and the State Technical Services Act of 1965 in the establishment of information services…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Course Descriptions, Education, Entrepreneurship
Download full textEnvironmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC. – 1973
The purpose of the symposium, sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency, was to outline and clarify the difficulties of interchanging information in the myriad forms now available, to present the user of environmental information with a review of the services available, their location, accessibility, and cost, and to describe some of the…
Descriptors: Administration, Conference Reports, Conferences, Environment
National Agricultural Library (USDA), Washington, DC. – 1971
In October 1970, the Agricultural Sciences Information Network (ASIN) Committee was established by the joint landgrant/USDA Agriculture Research Policy Advisory Committee (ARPAC). The ASIN Committee was directed to review various network concepts as a means of improving information services to professional agriculturalists in the private and…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Information Centers, Information Needs, Information Networks
Anders, Wolfhart H.; Draxler, Alexandra – 1971
A study looked at the possibilities for a user-based information system which could provide usable structured information about educational technology and attempted to determine how best to supply information about educational process to users. The study had three phases. The first surveyed the literature and activities of centers concerned with…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Educational Technology, Information Dissemination, Information Needs
Consumers' Association of Canada, Ottawa (Ontario). – 1971
The possibility of creating in Canada a non-profit community information network (a set of linked data banks containing information for use by the general public) should be explored. A network to link together a set of data banks containing information for general public use would have the following merits: (1) By its effect on household…
Descriptors: Computers, Databases, Information Dissemination, Information Needs
Olson, Tom; And Others – 1973
WISE-ONE is a bibliographic information retrieval system which is designed to perform keyword searches of such data-bases as the ERIC RESUMAST and the ERIC CIJEMAST. Produced as a result of the search are the ERIC citation numbers, titles, authors, and, in the case of the journal file, the journal citation. Because WISE-ONE allows for nesting of…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Data Processing, Information Retrieval, Information Services
Harvey, John F., Ed. – 1970
The main objective of the conference was to explore methods for close and fruitful cooperation between the region's documentation centers. The conference was held to establish closer contacts between the documentation center staffs, to expand in-service training, and promote information and personnel exchange. The conference is considered to be an…
Descriptors: Conferences, Cooperative Programs, Foreign Countries, Information Centers
Carroll, George A. – CAUSE/EFFECT, 1988
Progress toward the goal of improved service to students through administrative systems can be achieved in many ways. Some suggestions include review current projects and existing systems, make service to students a systems department priority, publicize good systems, obtain student input in project planning, and utilize new technology. (MLW)
Descriptors: College Students, Computer Uses in Education, Higher Education, Information Services
Information Reports and Bibliographies, 1985
Presents selected testimonies before a joint congressional hearing on the changing information needs of rural America. Discussions cover information services and systems, recognizing and meeting information needs, advances being made in information and communication technologies, and the Intermountain Community Learning/Information Services…
Descriptors: Hearings, Information Needs, Information Science, Information Services
Tauber, Robert T. – Research Intelligence, 1985
Reports responses of 15 ERIC Clearinghouses to three questions concerning the internal mechanics of evaluating unsolicited manuscripts for "Resources in Education": acceptance rate (average rate was cited as 50%); academic credentials of those who make final evaluation; and selection criteria. Eight sources are given. (EJS)
Descriptors: Clearinghouses, Credibility, Databases, Evaluation Criteria
O'Leary, Mick – Online, 1985
Business Computer Network (BCN) employs automatic calling and logon, multiple database access, disk search capture, and search assistance interfaces to provide single access to 15 online services. Telecommunications software (SuperScout) used to reach BCN and participating online services offers storage and message options and is accompanied by…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Databases, Information Networks, Information Services
Olmsted, Marcia; Labreche, Sylvie – Online, 1986
Second article in a three-part series focuses on enhancements of search commands and features in the DIALOG and QUESTEL information systems. Highlights include system responses and capacities (aids to searching); search commands and features (proximity searching, field specification, limits); concatenating complex requests; and saving search…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Software, Databases, Information Services
