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PDF pending restorationFry, Bernard M. – 1972
The purpose of this study was to examine the use made of the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) products and services by members of the educational community, and in this context to evaluate the extent to which the ERIC system is achieving its objectives of guaranteeing ready access to the nation's current significant literature in…
Descriptors: Educational Resources, Evaluation, Information Centers, Information Networks
Download full textFry, Bernard M. – 1972
The purpose of this study was to examine the use made of the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) products and services by members of the educational community, and in this context to evaluate the extent to which the ERIC system is achieving its objectives of guaranteeing ready access to the nation's current significant literature in…
Descriptors: Educational Resources, Evaluation, Information Centers, Information Networks
Fry, Bernard M. – 1972
The purpose of this study was to examine the use made of the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) products and services by members of the educational community, and in this context to evaluate the extent to which the ERIC system is achieving its objectives of guaranteeing ready access to the nation's current significant literature in…
Descriptors: Educational Resources, Evaluation, Information Centers, Information Networks
Fry, Bernard M. – 1972
The purpose of this study was to examine the use made of the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) products and services by members of the educational community, and in this context to evaluate the extent to which the ERIC system is achieving its objectives of guaranteeing ready access to the nation's current significant literature in…
Descriptors: Educational Resources, Evaluation, Information Centers, Information Networks
PDF pending restorationFry, Bernard M. – 1972
The purpose of this study was to examine the use made of the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) products and services by members of the educational community, and in this context to evaluate the extent to which the ERIC system is achieving its objectives of guaranteeing ready access to the nation's current significant literature in…
Descriptors: Educational Resources, Evaluation, Information Centers, Information Networks
Scheffler, F. L.; March, J. F. – 1971
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…
Descriptors: Aerospace Industry, Evaluation, Information Centers, Information Services
Moore, Lorna; And Others – 1971
Difficulties encountered by users of the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) idexing and abstracting services are: (1) coverage too broad for a single index, (2) duplication of material indexed or distributed elsewhere, (3) multiple number series, (4) inconsistency of bibliographic entries and (5) coverage unpredictable. The difficulties…
Descriptors: Evaluation, Government Publications, Information Centers, Information Networks
Slawsky, Dorothy A., Ed.; Brandhorst, Ted, Ed. – 1978
The result of a comprehensive search for documents about ERIC, this bibliography lists 269 entries which approach ERIC in several different ways, e.g., documents of historical interest in the development of the system; "how to" items designed to initiate the user into the system; user surveys; evaluations of ERIC performance; reports…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Background, Evaluation, Federal Programs
Brandhorst, Ted, Ed. – 1985
The result of a comprehensive search for documents about the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) published between 1979 and 1984, this bibliography lists 131 entries which approach ERIC in several different ways: documents of historical interest in the development of ERIC; "how to" items whose object is to initiate the user…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Background, Clearinghouses, Educational Research
Michael, Mary Ellen; Encarnacion, Leticia – 1974
An evaluation of Chicago's El Centro de la Causa Library and Information Center was undertaken by the University of Illinois Library Research Center in 1974. Evaluation methods included: (1) a survey of user and nonuser characteristics and attitudes concerning library services; (2) a survey of the needs and information-seeking behavior of people…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Surveys, Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
Havelock, Mary C.; Havelock, Ronald G. – 1974
Using the case study approach, the Merrimack Education Center was examined (1) to test the linkage model developed by Ronald Havelock, (2) to provide a model description for the benefit of others who wished to duplicate the center's program, and (3) to provide feedback to the center itself. The study produced a thumbnail sketch of the center; a…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Diffusion, Educational Innovation, Educational Research
BIVONA, WILLIAM A. – 1966
THIS REPORT PRESENTS AN ANALYSIS OF OVER EIGHTEEN SMALL, INTERMEDIATE, AND LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS FOR THE SELECTIVE DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION (SDI). SYSTEMS ARE COMPARED AND ANALYZED WITH RESPECT TO DESIGN CRITERIA AND THE FOLLOWING NINE SYSTEM PARAMETERS--(1) INFORMATION INPUT, (2) METHODS OF INDEXING AND ABSTRACTING, (3) USER INTEREST PROFILE…
Descriptors: Automation, Bibliographies, Costs, Data Processing
Massachusetts State Dept. of Education, Boston. Bureau of Educational Information Services. – 1975
Project SEIC (State Educational Information Center) was funded to increase the demand for and use of educational information, especially ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) information, and to make more cost effective the delivery of information services. To accomplish these goals, Project SEIC first assessed the state-of-the-art of…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Computer Programs, Data Analysis, Delivery Systems
