This study examines international student information needs and whether education level, age, and gender affect their information use. An e-mail survey revealed that international students need information that supports their academic courses, and those with higher education levels use databases, remote access to library offerings, and e-journals…

During 1992, CEDEFOP (the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training) commissioned two projects to investigate the current situation with regard to databases on vocational qualifications in Member States of the European Community (EC) and possibilities for networking such databases. Results of these two studies were presented and…

This manual was developed for use as a "how to" training device and provides a step-by-step introduction to using AppleWorks in the database mode. Instructions are given to prepare the original database with the headings of the user's choice. Inserting information records in the new database is covered, along with changing the layout of…

Until recently, there was no information on U.S. schools attended by migrant children and their characteristics. Migrant children and youth often were excluded from major educational studies because of the lack of a nationally reliable sampling frame of schools or districts enrolling migrant children. In an effort to fill this gap, the U.S.…

In 1987, the Arizona legislature began a process of establishing statewide goals for the improvement of the state's educational system. A joint legislative committee developed specific goals in the areas of student achievement, high school graduation rate, and postschool employment and college enrollment. To produce the baseline data necessary in…

This annotated bibliography lists almost 100 items. It focuses on materials on the social aspects of the history of medicine published after 1981 because there is no other bibliography that does so. The research design relies on the bibliographic method. The end-product is a systematic, enumerative bibliography. The guide includes 13 general…

This document provides primary references (mostly in English) on Chicano topics and a basic strategy for researching topics related to Chicanos. The document suggests beginning with dictionaries and encyclopedias as starting points for research. Journals are the best source for current information on a topic. Several indexes list references to…

DACUM, an acronym for Developing A Curriculum, is a standardized curriculum development process used primarily in community colleges across the United States. DACUM results provide a valid national database that can: (1) further justify the study of speech communication in most academic curricula; and (2) help define the nature of the basic speech…

Intended for researchers in nursing and health-related disciplines, this guide provides an annotated listing of 115 health science reference sources found in the libraries of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. An introduction to library research covers use of the card catalog, the serials holdings list, and Library of Congress call numbers.…

Because experience with large information retrieval (IR) and database management (DBM) systems has shown that they are not adequate for the handling of textual material, two Swedish companies--Paralog and AU-System Network--have joined in a venture to develop a software package which combines features from IR and DMB systems to form a Text Data…

This annotated bibliography includes both general resources in legal research and works specifically addressing school law. A total of 103 items are cited under the following categories: guides to legal research; indexes; dictionaries, encyclopedias, directories, and handbooks; American Digest system; federal statutes, reports, and rules and…

To better coordinate the work of the 16 ERIC Clearinghouses with that of other information service providers, the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI) conducted a survey that defined and described the clients and services of 100 public and private education-related clearinghouses. For the purposes of this survey, a clearinghouse…

Database documentation is provided for users of a data file consisting of a directory of all main public libraries in the United States. The directory development survey began with the mailing of a computer printout containing listings of each state's public libraries to the chief officer of the appropriate state library agency for updating. A…

A data file, consisting of a directory of all main public libraries in the United States, is presented. The data file contains data gathered using a directory development survey that began with the mailing of computer printout listings of each state's public libraries to the chief officer of the appropriate state library agency for updating.…

Our society is witnessing an ever-increasing sophistication in the development and use of computer and associated telecommunications technologies. Archivists are no longer faced with preserving relatively simply numeric files, but with maintaining a vast array of electronic information holdings ranging from complex databases to compound electronic…