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Download full textCongress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1974
Hearings were held on a "Joint resolution to authorize and request the President to call a White House conference on library and information services in 1976." The purpose of the conference would be to develop recommendations for further improvement and growth of the nation's libraries and information centers in order to make information…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Financial Support, Information Centers, Information Services
Bomar, Cora Paul; And Others – 1973
The ten articles which comprise this collection are intended to stimulate creative thinking about ways to improve existing educational media selection centers and to develop new ones. The authors share their professional judgments about how to organize, staff, administer and equip centers, how to use them to evaluate media, and how they work as…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Centers, Educational Media, Guides, Information Centers
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. – 1973
Senate Joint Resolution 40, introduced January 26, 1973, authorizes and requests the President to call a White House Conference on Library and Information Sciences in 1976. The purpose of the Conference will be to develop recommendations for the improvement of the nation's libraries and information centers, and will be planned and conducted under…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Hearings, Information Centers, Information Science
National Agricultural Library (USDA), Washington, DC. – 1971
In October 1970, the Agricultural Sciences Information Network (ASIN) Committee was established by the joint landgrant/USDA Agriculture Research Policy Advisory Committee (ARPAC). The ASIN Committee was directed to review various network concepts as a means of improving information services to professional agriculturalists in the private and…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Information Centers, Information Needs, Information Networks
Standera, Oldrich – 1971
The Text-Pac System is capable of generating indexes and bulletins to provide a current information service without the selectivity feature. Indexes of the accumulated data base may also be used as a basis for manual retrospective searching. The manual search involves searching computer-prepared indexes from a machine readable data base produced…
Descriptors: Automatic Indexing, Computers, Indexes, Indexing
Veazie, Walter H., Jr.; Connolly, Thomas F. – 1971
Information analysis centers (IACs) represent a valuable national resource which has not been fully utilized, often because their products and services are not widely known. Recent Government economy measures demand consideration of increased marketability of these products and services and the institution of service charges as a possible source…
Descriptors: Administration, Case Studies, Costs, Information Centers
Mathies, Lorraine – Junior College Research Review, 1972
The ERIC information system is designed for computerized information storage and retrieval. While the computer can play an increasingly more vital role in facilitating reference searches of large literature collections, experience shows that manual searching gives the user skills and expertise that are essential to effectively use the computerized…
Descriptors: Information Centers, Information Dissemination, Information Networks, Information Retrieval
American Rehabilitation Foundation, Minneapolis, Minn. Inst. for Interdisciplinary Studies. – 1971
The purpose of advocacy in an information and referral (I & R) center is to obtain service for older people where such service is not now available to them or is non-existent. This is related to the center's mission of linking older people and services together. Advocacy at the case level is concerned with individuals who have not received the…
Descriptors: Community Services, Guides, Individual Needs, Information Centers
American Rehabilitation Foundation, Minneapolis, Minn. Inst. for Interdisciplinary Studies. – 1971
Chapter 1 discusses what outreach is, why this service is needed and what it can do. Chapter 2, is concerned with outreach personnel including a job description, recruitment, selection, salary, working hours, training and supervision. Chapter 3 covers how to select the outreach service area, making canvassing assignments and pre-canvassing…
Descriptors: Community Services, Guides, Information Centers, Information Services
Schlessinger, Bernard S., Ed. – 1971
Contained in this report are seven of the sixteen papers which resulted from the Seminar. The seven papers are (1) Trends in Informational Operations, (2) Present Status and Future Plans of Government Information Agencies, (3) The Congress and Research and Development, (4) Air Force Systems Commanded Comments on Technical Information Systems, (5)…
Descriptors: Information Centers, Information Needs, Information Retrieval, Information Science
Whetsel, H. B. – 1970
The main purpose of this report is to help novice reviewers accelerate their apprenticeship at the Nuclear Safety Information Center, a computerized information service sponsored by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Guidelines for reviewers are presented in Part 1; Part 2 contains guidelines for the novice editor. The goal of the reviewers and…
Descriptors: Abstracting, Data Processing, Indexing, Information Centers
Harvey, John F., Ed. – 1970
The main objective of the conference was to explore methods for close and fruitful cooperation between the region's documentation centers. The conference was held to establish closer contacts between the documentation center staffs, to expand in-service training, and promote information and personnel exchange. The conference is considered to be an…
Descriptors: Conferences, Cooperative Programs, Foreign Countries, Information Centers
Williams, Martha E.; And Others – 1972
The major objective of the IITRI Computer Search Center is to educate and link industry, academia, and government institutions to chemical and other scientific information systems and sources. The Center was developed to meet this objective and is in full operation providing services to users from a variety of machine-readable data bases with…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Chemistry, Computers, Databases
Williams, Martha E. – 1971
Information centers exist to provide information from machine-readable data bases to users in industry, universities and other organizations. The computer Search Center of the IIT Research Institute was designed with a number of variables and uncertainties before it. In this paper, the author discusses how the Center was designed to enable it to…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Databases, Information Centers, Information Processing
Ohio State Univ., Columbus. – 1974
The Mechanized Information Center (MIC) at Ohio State University conducts retrospective and current awareness searches using data bases for agriculture, chemistry, education, psychology, and social sciences, as well as a multidisciplinary data base. Described in the report are the history and background of MIC, the data bases, information…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Databases, Information Centers, Information Dissemination
