This is the report of an exploratory study aimed at testing one method of obtaining data on the information needs and sources of people in a medium-sized city, New Brunswick, New Jersey. An underlying goal was to explore what is often assumed, that needed information is gathered and used, and that there is an unmet need for information. Poverty…

A selective dissemination service (SRIM) of the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) features semimonthly dissemination of microfiche copies of documents newly added to the NTIS collection, on the basis of interest profiles. The service was used to test a university subsystem wherein a number of individual profiles were combined and…