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Prettyman, Maureen; Antonucci, Robert; Lynch, Paul; Mericle, Lee – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1999
The National Library of Medicine is supporting a research project on full-text search and retrieval. The project includes a fully deployed system, HSTAT, to provide access to government-supported health information. The retrieval system is an object-oriented client-server model and the data is stored in an object-oriented database management…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Electronic Publishing, Health Materials, Information Management
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Deken, Jean Marie – Journal of Archival Organization, 2005
This article provides a brief introduction to the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), discusses the origins of the SLAC Archives and History Office, its present-day operations, and the present and future challenges it faces in attempting to preserve an accurate historical record of SLAC's activities. (Contains 21 notes.)
Descriptors: Physics, Science History, Documentation, Archives
Compton, Jennifer L. – 1995
This study examines a random sample of academic health sciences libraries across the United States to determine if these institutions have three-dimensional medical artifacts in their collections and how they organize and catalog these materials to provide access to them. A questionnaire was sent to heads of cataloging at 30 academic health…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Cataloging, Higher Education
Nevada State Dept. of Education, Carson City. Planning, Research and Evaluation Branch. – 1996
As of 1993, Nevada had no systems for statewide automation and transfer of student records. This guide book presents findings of a collaborative study, conducted by the Nevada Department of Education and local school districts, that explored the need for and feasibility of developing a statewide system for automating and transferring student…
Descriptors: Computers, Data Collection, Database Management Systems, Educational Improvement
Haag, Stephen; Keen, Peter – 1996
This textbook is designed for a one-semester introductory course in which the goal is to give students a foundation in the basics of information technology (IT). It focuses on how the technology works, issues relating to its use and development, how it can lend personal and business advantages, and how it is creating a globally networked society.…
Descriptors: Business Administration, Class Activities, Computer Interfaces, Computer Peripherals
Auerbach, Jacqueline T. – 1993
This descriptive study, using a questionnaire survey, determined how computer-based technology was being selected, funded, and utilized in high school library media centers and assessed its impact on library media program. A total of 132 questionnaires were sent (of which 107 questionnaires--81 percent--were completed and returned) to randomly…
Descriptors: Communications, Educational Technology, High Schools, Information Storage
Maxwell, Kelly; Bernier, Kathleen; Bryant, Donna; Lowman, Betsy – 1998
The North Carolina Early Childhood Initiative, better known as Smart Start, was implemented to ensure that all North Carolina children enter school healthy and prepared to succeed. In 1997, an evaluation team worked with four Smart Start partnerships to describe the current client information systems used by local partnerships and to determine the…
Descriptors: Child Health, Client Characteristics (Human Services), Counselor Client Relationship, Data Collection
Gross, Gay Ann – 1992
Outcomes of a project that implemented a management information system to effectively gather and record student data are presented in this practicum report. The project, implemented in the adult education department of a community college and its various offcampus locations, consisted of three components: a BASIC program to calculate students'…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Community Colleges, Computer Uses in Education, Data Collection
Dierickx, H., Ed.; Hopkinson, A., Ed. – 1986
A product of the UNISIST International Centre for Bibliographic Descriptions (UNIBID), this reference manual presents a standardized communication format for the exchange of machine-readable bibliographic information between bibliographic databases or other types of bibliographic information services, including libraries. Its first section defines…
Descriptors: Communications, Computer Oriented Programs, Databases, Definitions
Whiting, John – 1984
Computer assisted learning (CAL) is an old technology which has generated much new interest. Computers can: reduce data to a directly comprehensible form; reduce administration; communicate worldwide and exchange, store, and retrieve data; and teach. The computer's limitation is in its dependence on the user's ability and perceptive nature.…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Managed Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs, Courseware
Gardner, Brenda S.; Mueller, Daniel K. – 1984
This guide is designed to assist managers of training and development or continuing education in developing a resource file of faculty at their own institution who have the potential to perform various training and development functions. Addressed in the individual sections of the guide are the following steps involved in creating such a file:…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Check Lists, Continuing Education, Coordination
McLaughlin, Donald H.; And Others – 1983
This report provides information on the background, methodology, and findings of the Videodisc-Microcomputer (ViM) Network project, which brought together over 40 schools in 15 states to explore the potential of a new technology for basic skills instruction. Initiated in 1981 and completed at the end of 1983, the project involved a wide variety of…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Computer Networks, Data Collection, Educational Innovation
Lukes, John A. – 1985
This report discusses the development and characteristics of the Prospective Student Inquiry Data File and Information System, which is used by the California State University at Chico (CSUC) as part of an effort to increase its student applicant population. Following a brief review of organizational background information, the report is divided…
Descriptors: Admissions Counseling, Case Studies, College Applicants, Computer Storage Devices
Thornberry, Patricia Lee; Michael, James D. – 1982
This extensive micrographics bibliography, which includes citations drawn from a literature search and prepared bibliographies, covers microforms, microfiche, and microfilm. Sections include 3 pages of book citations, 6 pages citing ERIC documents, and 33 pages of journal citations. Topics covered include microform library usage and usage in other…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Computer Output Microfilm, Evaluation Criteria, Information Retrieval
Stebegg, K.; Oberhauser, O. – 1984
This paper is primarily an annotated listing of criteria for selection of a microcomputer to be used for online information retrieval. The paper was used by the University Library of the Technische Universitat Wien (Vienna, Austria) while preparing to contact computer dealers and to inform them about the library's needs in this specialized area of…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Computer Software, Computer Storage Devices, Evaluation Criteria
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