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Download full textUpjohn (W.E.) Inst. for Employment Research, Kalamazoo, MI. – 1982
This volume contains four papers presented at a 1982 conference sponsored by the National Council on Employment Policy. It begins with a brief policy statement warning that labor force and productivity data systems face deterioration because of budget cuts that have forced a decline in the quality and quantity of the published information and…
Descriptors: Conference Proceedings, Data, Data Collection, Data Processing
Zill, Nicholas; And Others – 1984
The Interagency Conference on Child and Family Statistics was organized around seven groups that were asked to develop specific recommendations for improving the federal statistical database on children and families. This booklet is a report on the recommendations made at the conference. The first part of the report distills and synthesizes the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Agency Cooperation, Children, Coordination
Daval, Nicola, Ed. – 1986
Program presentations on issues related to the use of statistics by research libraries and business meeting minutes are combined in this report from the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). The full text is provided for the three papers on the program theme that were presented at the meeting: (1) "Information to Manage--The Economics of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Conferences, Data Collection, Data Interpretation
Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ. – 1977
Information on institutional research, planning, and evaluation is provided in 15 conference presentations. The papers included in the collection are: (1) "The Nature of Institutional Research in the Community College (CC)" by James L. Wattenbarger; (2) "The Range and Organization of Data for Research" by Richard L. Alfred; (3) "Research Methods…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Planning, Community Colleges, Data Analysis
Hedberg, John G., Ed.; And Others – 1990
This collection contains 30 selected papers and abstracts of six additional papers from the 1990 Conference of the Australian Society for Educational Technology. Titles and authors of the papers are as follows: (1) "Interactive Media into the Millenium" (Clark); (2) "Open Learning Centre Network Project and the Preparatory and…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Delivery Systems, Distance Education, Educational Technology
Webster, Duane E.; Maruyama, Lenore S. – 1980
Discussions summarized in this report focused on the relationships between individual libraries and the bibliographic utilities, as well as the options available to the library and information communities for preparing, sharing, and gaining access to machine-readable records. Issues discussed fall into three categories: (1) ownership and…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Data, Information Dissemination, Information Networks
American Society for Information Science, Washington, DC. – 1986
This document contains abstracts of papers on database design and management which were presented at the 1986 mid-year meeting of the American Society for Information Science (ASIS). Topics considered include: knowledge representation in a bilingual art history database; proprietary database design; relational database design; in-house databases;…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Database Design, Database Management Systems, Databases
Harrington, Paul E., Ed.; And Others – 1981
These proceedings contain the texts of 13 papers presented at a conference devoted to the development and use of employer surveys at the local level. Focus of the first paper is on using local employer surveys for Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) planning and determination of private sector employment and training needs. Examined…
Descriptors: Conferences, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Educational Needs
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
Report on the National Symposium on Personal Privacy and Information Technology (October 4-7, 1981).
American Federation of Information Processing Societies, Montvale, NJ. – 1982
A national symposium was held October 4-7, 1981, to explore the relationships among law, ethics, and informational technology as they relate to the individual's informational privacy. The introduction to this report describes the conference format; discusses the Privacy Act of 1974 and the Freedom of Information Act; and offers definitions of…
Descriptors: Confidentiality, Data Collection, Ethics, Information Processing
International Inst. of Communications, London (England). – 1978
This book, the second of a series published annually by the International Institute of Communications (IIC), is based on the papers and discussions of the IIC's Annual Conference and provides a survey of major issues in communication. The five subject headings are: Global Communications: Orders and Patterns, Space Communications, Information and…
Descriptors: Communications, Communications Satellites, Community, Data Processing
International Library Cooperation. Essen Symposium (10th, Essen, West Germany, October 19-22, 1987).
Helal, Ahmed H., Ed.; Weiss, Joachim W., Ed. – 1988
The proceedings of this symposium contain the texts of 21 presentations: (1) "The Alexandriana Library: A New Opportunity in International Library Cooperation" (Stuart Ede); (2) "Conservation, Culture and Curriculum" (Brendan Loughridge); (3) "European Library Cooperation: An EC (European Community) Standpoint"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Technology, Interlibrary Loans, International Cooperation
Larson, Miriam T., Ed. – 1979
This report includes papers dealing with various facets of the library's role in filling the lay health education need and the appropriate responses to that need as conceived by the conference participants; the total content reflects the input from medicine, nursing, social work, community medicine, law, voluntary health agencies and national…
Descriptors: Health Education, Information Centers, Institutional Libraries, Librarians
Brown, George H.; Faupel, Elizabeth M. – 1987
In January of 1987, a planning conference was convened by the Center for Education Statistics as part of an effort to study the feasibility of various approaches to the nationwide assessment of children's readiness for instruction in kindergarten and first grade. This report provides, in an appendix, the texts of the four commissioned papers…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Data Collection, Educational Assessment, Educational Policy
Helal, Ahmed H., Ed.; Weiss, Joachim W., Ed. – 1987
This symposium explored the effects of computers and modern technologies on library automation and cooperation. The following presentations are included in this collection: (1) "Economic Squeeze and Technological Challenge--Swedish Library Automation, 1987-90" (Svante Hallgren); (2) "A European Bibliographic Database Centre" (Bernard Gallivan);…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Utilities, Developed Nations, Foreign Countries, Information Retrieval
