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Seaman, A. Frederick, Jr. – College and University, 1979
Information systems are becoming more than computer systems, with new equipment and techniques combining with data processing to form a new field called information technology. The emerging discipline of systems engineering is discussed along with nine systems engineering techniques. An organization chart of an information services department is…
Descriptors: Accountability, Computers, Data Processing, Data Processing Occupations
Mitchell, Rodney P. – School Business Affairs, 1986
Supplying data from mainframe computers to microcomputers is tedious because IBM mainframe computers use Extended Binary-Coded Decimal Interchange Code (EBCDIC) to represent data and microcomputers use an American National Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) code set. (MLF)
Descriptors: Communications, Computer Science, Computer Software, Computers
Fellmy, William R. – School Business Affairs, 1986
The LOTUS 1-2-3's special database management operations are used by school budget officials to display data in a variety of ways to assist their decision making. (MLF)
Descriptors: Budgeting, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Software, Data Processing
LeDuc, Albert L., Jr. – CAUSE/EFFECT, 1982
Competent data processing employees can be attracted to higher education, despite a nationwide shortage of computer programers and analysts. Suggestions are given for each phase (contact, interview, and closing) of the recruitment process. Vigor, enthusiasm, and follow-through are key elements. (MSE)
Descriptors: Data Processing, Employment Interviews, Higher Education, Labor Supply

Matthews, James C. – Business Education Forum, 1980
The author urges educators to take a look at curriculums, individual courses, the needs of business, the job opportunties generated by word processing and data processing technology, and the goals and aims of the actual teaching-learning strategies which are created and take place in the classroom. (CT)
Descriptors: Business Education Teachers, Data Processing, Educational Assessment, Educational Technology
Cleveland, Clem – 1984
The benefits that the microcomputer offers the school district--and the district's public relations office in particular--are significant and should be taken advantage of. Although microcomputers increase the already large amount of information available to administrators, they also enable the user to select and coordinate information efficiently.…
Descriptors: Data Processing, Elementary Secondary Education, Equipment Utilization, Management Information Systems

Shekhel, Alex; Freeman, Eva – Library Hi Tech, 1987
Discusses the advantages of parallel processor computers in terms of expandibility, cost, performance and reliability, and suggests that such computers be used in library automation systems as a cost effective approach to planning for the growth of information services and computer applications. (CLB)
Descriptors: Computers, Cost Effectiveness, Data Processing, Information Services
Howden, Norman – Microcomputers for Information Management: An International Journal for Library and Information Services, 1987
Describes LOTUS 1-2-3, an advanced spreadsheet with database and text manipulation functions that can be used with microcomputers by librarians to provide customized calculation and data acquisition tools. Macro commands and the menu system are discussed, and an example is given of an invoice procedure. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Computation, Data Collection, Data Processing, Database Management Systems

Speer, Susan C. – Information Technology and Libraries, 1987
Describes a computer program designed to manage statistics about online searches which reports the number of searches by vendor, purpose, and librarian; calculates charges to departments and individuals; and prints monthly invoices to users with standing accounts. (CLB)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Data Collection, Data Processing, Database Management Systems

Leggate, Peter; Dyer, Hilary – Electronic Library, 1986
Describes cataloging software characteristics (data input, storage, retrieval, and output); outlines acquisitions software requirements (recommendations, data input, budgetary control, dispatch of orders, claims and cancellations, receipts, management information); presents examples of cataloging and acquisitions software; and discusses the nature…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Computer Software, Cost Effectiveness, Data Processing
Varty, James W. – 1983
Prepared for cooperative education placement and career service professionals, this paper considers the applications of microcomputers in the development of a comprehensive management information system (MIS) for cooperative education programs. After noting the complicated information needs of cooperative education and common weaknesses of current…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Cooperative Education, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Goldfine, Alan H., Ed. – 1982
This workshop investigated how managers can evaluate, select, and effectively use information resource management (IRM) tools, especially data dictionary systems (DDS). An executive summary, which provides a definition of IRM as developed by workshop participants, precedes the keynote address, "Data: The Raw Material of a Paper Factory,"…
Descriptors: Data Processing, Databases, Information Needs, Information Services
Simon, Hans-Reiner – 1985
This report provides a summary of the accredited programs in library and information science in the Federal Republic of Germany. Discussions consider the expansion of education programs in such fields as electronic data processing and information and communications technology; the shifting trend in course development from more general to very…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Data Processing, Foreign Countries
Lynn, L. Edward – Principal, 1985
Integrated software is available to help with many of the small- to medium-sized school's management tasks requiring data analysis. Typical integrated programs include spreadsheet, database, graphing, and word processing components and cost less than the price of all the components purchased separately. (PGD)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Software, Data Processing
Sheingold, Karen; And Others – 1983
Consumers and producers of educational software must make decisions about what kind of software to buy and create. Both groups must base these decisions on criteria that consider what it is important to learn in our technological era, what is workable, and what is currently practical and cost-effective. Five criteria that are central to these…
Descriptors: Computer Graphics, Computer Software, Cost Effectiveness, Data Processing
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