This publication reports the practices of 46 livestock producers relating to their use of market news as reported in personal interviews made in September, 1969, in three counties in Illinois. The questionnaire provided for information for: volume of livestock, type, location, frequency of use of various media used to obtain livestock market news;…

The flow of knowledge from researchers to users is aided by knowledge linkers who activate the interpersonal network of communication within the target audience. The linker enters this network by contacting (through periodicals, mass media, conventions, and directly) individuals in the audience who are more active than others (gatekeepers). Once…

Focusing on the resources of an academic library (th University of California at Los Angeles, in this case), this booklet outlines and discusses a plan for conducting library research in preparing a term paper. Beginning with a section on books, in which the card catalogue is explained, the outline continues with sections on periodicals and…

The National Bureau of Standards is mechanizing a catalog of currently available information sources and services. Information from recent surveys of machine-readable, commercially-available bibliographic data bases, and the various current awareness, batch retrospective, and interactive retrospective services which can access them have been…

The text of an extended series of computer-mediated conversations makes up the body of this document. Discussion centers around the uses of computer networks as a new communication medium. Contributions were made by participants, who typed their informal comments into computer terminals, located at several places in the country. Because of the…

This document contains the proceedings of a conference on the general topic of labor market information, particulary the need to develop better methods, services, and subsystems for delivering such information. The source of the current concern for an adequate system of labor market information was the increased national interest in the optimum…

Since 1967 the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) Clearinghouses have produced a total of 1,514 information analysis products--bibliographies, literature reviews, state-of-the-art papers, evaluative summaries, and other special reports. This volume is a five-year cumulation of citations and abstracts of these ERIC Clearinghouses'…

The Design of Information Systems in the Social Sciences (DISISS) is a research project with the objective of carrying out research necessary for the effective design of information systems in the social sciences, whether by the creation of new systems or the modification of existing systems. This working paper reports the work to date on the…

This study evaluated the extent to which 386 instructors in the North Carolina Community College System (NCCCS) use certain modes of knowledge utilization, and the effectiveness thereof as seen by the NCCCS instructors. It also examined differences in mode use and effectiveness among vocational, technical, and college transfer instructors as well…

Census tapes are not a ready reference tool and must be supported by appropriate program tapes. However, census materials provide the single, most important sources of information and measures which, properly used, provide a better understanding of our society. In utilizing census products, librarians need to fill the role of a user, as well as…

Reference service is defined as the mediation by a librarian between the need structures of users and the structures of information resources. The general process by which reference librarians accomplish this is outlined as including the phases of question clarification, question translation, search strategy formulation, search execution, delivery…

Since the social reality of the drug problem has largely emanated from the diffuse conceptions of the drug user, an analysis of the history of the "dope fiend" mythology is presented in this paper in an attempt to assess the manner in which certain publics are informed about the problem. A content analysis of drug-related imagery was made from…

Libraries must be aware of the needs of the users in their funding organization, and yet, there is growing concern among library funding organizations that libraries are not fully coping with the information explosion. In fact, libraries, by not adopting new techniques to become more productive, are actually helping to cause the problems of the…

The fifth annual bibliography of Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) Clearinghouse publications reflects the information analysis activities of each clearinghouse for Fiscal Year 1971. This is an annual bibliography of those publications of the ERIC Clearinghouses which reflect information analysis activities. In addition to the…

A methodology for categorically describing computer-based information systems was developed and applied to six university-based, NSF-supported systems. The systems under study all operate as retail information cneters primarily serving campus communities by accessing large commercially-available data bases using 3rd generation computer…