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Download full textLucas, John A.; Didier, Karen – 1996
As part of a review of its Information Center, Facilities Rental and Reservation Center, and Computerized Area List and Labels System (CALLS), William Rainey Harper College (WRHC), in Illinois, conducted a survey of staff and students to determine their perceptions of the quality of these services. Surveys were distributed to a sample of 300…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Employee Attitudes, Facility Utilization Research, Information Centers
Saracevic, Tefko; Wood, Judith B. – 1981
Intended as a pilot version, this handbook deals with the consolidation of scientific and technical information, i.e., the purposeful structuring of texts or messages from existing public knowledge in order to affect the private knowledge of individuals who otherwise might not be able to effectively and efficiently access or use the public…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Information Centers, Information Dissemination, Information Needs
Yazzie, Nora, Ed. – 1977
The American Indian Task Force for the Educational Resources Information Center/Clearinghouse on Rural Education and Small Schools (ERIC/CRESS) was established in 1976 to aid CRESS in serving the users of American Indian educational materials. Comprised of 11 authorities in the field of Indian education, the Task Force met twice over a period of a…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, American Indians, Criteria, Educational Research
Commission des Communautes Europeennes (Luxembourg). – 1973
The conference proceedings contained in this document include invited papers, transcripts of discussions following those papers, and the reports of topical committees that met during the three day conference held in Luxembourg, May 1973. The focus of the conference was on the design and use of information retrieval and data base systems in various…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Conference Reports, Costs, Databases
Peer reviewedKonsynski, Benn R.; And Others – Journal of Management Information Systems, 1988
A series of articles addresses issues concerning decision support and knowledge based systems. Topics covered include knowledge-based systems for information centers; object oriented systems; strategic information systems case studies; user perception; manipulation of certainty factors by individuals and expert systems; spreadsheet program use;…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Decision Making, Decision Support Systems, Expert Systems
Peer reviewedGoodhue, Dale; Littlefield, Russell; Straub, Detmar W. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1997
Describes the design of the survey employed to measure the impacts of the Integrated Information Center (IIC) at the University of Minnesota on the end-users and reports the results of that survey. (Author/MES)
Descriptors: Appropriate Technology, Evaluation Methods, Feedback, Higher Education
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
PDF pending restorationKraft, Donald H.; Hill, T. W., Jr. – 1972
The problem of selecting which sites to use in locating library and information centers in order to best achieve system objectives is modeled as a mixed zero-one linear programming problem and examined in detail. The model incorporates an objective function based on the costs of locating centers and of transmitting information to the users. The…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making, Information Centers, Information Retrieval
Firschein, Oscar; Summit, Roger K. – 1975
DIALOG, an interactive, computer-based information retrieval language, consists of a series of computer programs designed to make use of direct access memory devices in order to provide the user with a rapid means of identifying records within a specific memory bank. Using the system, a library user can be provided access to sixteen distinct and…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Cost Effectiveness, Databases, Information Centers
Stanton, Vida Cummins – 1972
One facet of the information analysis and dissemination program of the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) includes newsletters issued by the ERIC clearinghouses. Seventeen of the 19 clearinghouses operational in 1969 published newsletters; all of the 1969 issues of these newsletters were examined and content analyzed. A great…
Descriptors: Clearinghouses, Content Analysis, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Research
Summit, Roger K. – 1970
The utility of computer based on-line retrieval of material from the ERIC document files was tested by members of the ERIC Clearinghouse on Educational Media and Technology at Stanford University and by the Region IX office of the U.S. Office of Education in San Francisco. The DIALOG retrieval system developed by the Information Sciences Group of…
Descriptors: Automation, Computer Oriented Programs, Computers, Data Processing
Schipma, Peter B., Ed. – 1974
The major objective of the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) Computer Search Center (CSC) is to educate and link industry, academia, and government institutions to chemical and other scientific information systems and sources. The CSC is in full operation providing services to users from a variety of machine-readable data bases with minimal…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Coupling, Chemical Industry, Computer Oriented Programs, Databases
PDF pending restorationChoi, Susan E. – 1973
A questionnaire was sent to each of California's 58 county offices of education as a means of obtaining information about the services offered by the professional education libraries to local educators. Of the 43 counties which replied, 36 offered some kind of services, but there was a great deal of variety in both their nature and extent. Most of…
Descriptors: County Libraries, County School Districts, Information Centers, Libraries
PDF pending restorationFranklin, Hardy R.; Summers, F. William – 1974
The 1972-1974 Neighborhood Information Center (NIC) Project was undertaken in Atlanta, Cleveland, Detroit, Houston, and Queens Borough to demonstrate that urban public libraries could be a vital force in daily living by providing free information and referrals to low income communities, and by adapting in non-traditional ways to meet neighborhood…
Descriptors: Community Centers, Community Information Services, Information Centers, Library Administration
Rath, Gustave J.; And Others – 1975
A study was conducted to assess the feasibility of establishing a regional information transfer center within the context of the National Network of Transportation Research Information Services (TRISNET). The principle areas of investigation were: (1) the transportation information needs of the public and private sectors; (2) the utility of…
Descriptors: Databases, Feasibility Studies, Federal Programs, Information Centers
