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Keller, Rosanne – 1977
Written in a conversational style with illustrations, this booklet from a series of home literacy readers is directed at the Alaskan environment where guns are a way of life, used for food and defense from animals. But more than 10% of the 1,300 U.S. deaths from gun accidents occur in Alaska, and more than 70%, at home. Nearly half the victims are…
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Adult Education, Alaska Natives, American Indians
BAGLEY, CLARENCE H. – 1967
INFORMATION CONTROL SHOULD BE AN INDIVIDUALIZED POLICY WHICH IS DEVELOPED AND MAINTAINED FOR EACH INSTITUTION. THE NEED FOR INFORMATION CONTROL HAS ARISEN BECAUSE OF THE INCREASING NUMBER OF OFFICES AND BUREAUS OF INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH, THE USE OF COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY, THE INCREASING NUMBER OF STUDIES ON STUDENTS, BUDGET REQUESTS, AND AMOUNTS OF…
Descriptors: Budgets, Computer Oriented Programs, Data Collection, Decision Making
Montgomery County Intermediate Unit 23, Blue Bell, PA. – 1976
The first of nine volumes in the SER-LARS (Special Education Resources Location Analysis and Retrieval System) Series presents an overview of the system's diagnostic-prescriptive instructional data bank. Information for the user is provided on resources needed, information generated, and procedures for the model's eight levels: initial referral…
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Databases, Diagnostic Teaching, Educational Diagnosis
Farago, John M. – 1979
Several paradoxes in the treatment of administrative information by universities are discussed. Since certain types of information have important economic value to educational institutions, there develops a conflict of interests, a collision between the schools' fiduciary responsibility for their students and their institutional responsibility to…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Students, Conference Reports, Confidentiality
SALTON, GERALD – 1968
A DETAILED ANALYSIS OF THE RETRIEVAL EVALUATION RESULTS OBTAINED WITH THE AUTOMATIC SMART DOCUMENT RETRIEVAL SYSTEM FOR DOCUMENT COLLECTIONS IN THE FIELDS OF AERODYNAMICS, COMPUTER SCIENCE, AND DOCUMENTATION IS GIVEN IN THIS REPORT. THE VARIOUS COMPONENTS OF FULLY AUTOMATIC DOCUMENT RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS ARE DISCUSSED IN DETAIL, INCLUDING THE FORMS OF…
Descriptors: Automation, Computational Linguistics, Correlation, Dictionaries
Goldberg, Gertrude S.; And Others – 1968
This manual is intended for use by social service aide trainees in the New Careers Program and provides description and explanation of the history and background of social welfare, social services, skills important in individual services, clerical and administrative activities connected with social services, and procedures for working with…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Community Study, Curriculum, Employee Attitudes
Engelhardt, David Frederic – 1968
A number of aspects of the relationships between characteristics of architectural space and science teaching methods in secondary schools were investigated using teacher questionnaire response and interviews for comparative facilities. Significant factors include--(1) the provision of classroom-laboratories, (2) proximity of the library, (3) size…
Descriptors: Biology, Comparative Analysis, Design Requirements, Educational Facilities Design
Tompkins, Mary L. – 1967
A series of symposia were conducted to provide forums for discussion of the problems arising when introducing into the single campus university library media which can be processed by computers. The first symposium "xplored the relationship between the university library and national network systems. The second concerned the relationship of…
Descriptors: Automation, Biological Sciences, College Libraries, Computers
Engelhardt, David Frederic – 1968
A number of aspects of the relationships between characteristics of architectural space and science teaching methods in secondary schools were investigated using teacher questionnaire response and interviews for comparative facilities. Significant factors include--(1) the provision of classroom-laboratories, (2) proximity of the library, (3) size…
Descriptors: Biology, Comparative Analysis, Design Requirements, Educational Facilities Design
McManus, John F. – 1971
Version 3 of the Southwest Regional Laboratory's (SWRL) Instructional Management System (IMS) is a fully automated system which accepts pupil criterion exercises from remote sites and returns various reports to the same location. This paper briefly describes the SWRL/IMS system design and functional characteristics. The instructional system…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Criterion Referenced Tests, Data Collection, Data Processing
Van der Brugghen, W. – 1975
An outline is provided for study of the collection, storage, and retrieval of all kinds of print and nonprint information. Coverage includes descriptions of types of primary materials, print and nonprint information, bibliographic description and cataloging; indexes and abstracts; bibliographies; reference works; retrieval methods; reprography;…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Bibliographies, Cataloging, Classification
Sherwood, Bruce Arne; Stifle, Jack – 1975
The PLATO IV computer-based educational system contains its own communications hardware and software for operating plasma-panel graphics terminals. Key echoing is performed by the central processing unit: every key pressed at a terminal passes through the entire system before anything appears on the terminal's screen. Each terminal is guaranteed…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Graphics, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Programs
Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Copyright Office. – 1976
In a series of meetings held over a period of three days, the National Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Works (CONTU) heard presentations, arranged by the American Society for Information Science, on information systems in general and on the operations of specific systems. The first presentation covered information storage and…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Automation, Chemistry, Computer Oriented Programs
Heim, Kathleen M. – 1975
The use, history, and role of machine-readable data base technology is discussed. First the development of data base technology is traced from its beginnings as a special resource for science and technology to its broader use in universities, with descriptions of some specific services. Next the current status of mechanized information services in…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Databases, Higher Education, Information Centers
Dakin, John – 1976
The advances of technology can provide new solutions to urban problems of information dissemination, food production, and energy technology. Electronic capacity can be developed in an integrated way so that it makes a full contribution to solution of social problems, but it will be most effective if the state moves it forward. A larger…
Descriptors: Community Change, Computers, Delivery Systems, Electromechanical Technology
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