A project definition study was conducted for the development, implementation and operation of a National Traffic Safety Documentation Center. Included in this final comprehensive report are: (1) the results of nationwide surveys of users and sources of traffic safety information; (2) a review of relevant information technology in terms of the…

The report describes Wisconsin's information retrieval system with remote, on-line computer access to nearly 200,000 educational documents. Briefly outlined are the operations and indexing of materials for the computer program, documents of the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC), file access, training sessions, and remote location…

The activities of the Information and Documentation Center (IDC) at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden are presented in this annual report for the fiscal year 1972-1973. The IDC is a research project on computer-based information retrieval funded by the Swedish Council for Scientific Information and Documentation and the Office…

This sixth issue of ERIC Products lists 396 publications of information analysis for Fiscal Year 1973 (July 1972 through June 1973). The publication includes substantial bibliographies, review papers, and state-of-art papers which are identified as ERIC information analysis publications; it excludes routine brochures, accession lists and short…

The Aerospace Materials Information Center (AMIC) Selective Dissemination of Information (SDI) program was evaluated by an interview technique after one year of operation. The data base for the SDI consists of the periodic document index records input to the AMIC system. The users are 63 engineers, scientists, and technical administrators at the…

This report covers Phase IIB (1 January 1971 to 30 June 1972) of the development of a campus-based Center for Information Services (CIS) at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Activities during this phase included completion of the design and programming details of the software system, development of a prototype of the software…

The thesaurus is explained to be a distillation of the more comprehensive Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors used by the Educational Resources Information Center Clearinghouses, and contains approximately 1,500 indexing terms called descriptors selected from the ERIC Thesaurus on the basis of particular need to the Clearinghouse on Exceptional…

The ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) system, a useful source of information on educational resources, is described briefly. The ERIC Clearinghouse on Vocational and Technical Education has been trying to develop an effective information network within that field by developing information resources, producing a guide to information…

The purpose of this Guide is to help those receiving data and data products from the National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) to make better use of the material obtained. In addition, it should help data requesters to intelligently formulate inquiries based on a knowledge of the capabilities (and limitations) of the data base. Chapter I of the…

This first in a series of articles outlines general requirements (flexibility, compatibility and control, response time and volume, searching, data entry); functional requirements (acquisitions, circulation, departmental subscriptions, internal and external reports, interlibrary loan, journals/serials, codes, patron); and use of the data…

Discussion of impact of technological change on the information profession highlights changing environment, cost performance increase, diversity of roles (information specialist, personnel manager, marketing specialist), client needs research and analysis, market management, service development and management, and role of information manager of…

This manual explains how the user services functions, usually performed by a User Services Coordinator, can be conducted in the 16 ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) Clearinghouses and the various adjunct ERIC Clearinghouses. It provides guidelines, suggestions, and examples of how ERIC components currently perform the user services…

This study examines whether an analysis of characteristics of libraries or information centers and librarians in highly productive companies yields operational models and standards that can improve their efficiency and effectiveness and their parent organization's productivity. Data was collected using an e-mail survey instrument sent to 500 large…

A survey of the literature on the effectiveness of information analysis centers which also includes papers on less specialized information centers, by the Director of Information Sciences of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. (JB)

Describes on-line services provided by the Educational Materials Laboratory of the Montgomery County (Maryland) Public Schools for students and school staff desiring access to the ERIC data base, as well as a network operation for county residents. (CMV)