The lack of information on problems, mistakes and failures of electronic data processing in libraries is described. A brief annotated bibliography on the subject is presented. (SJ)

Illustrates how time and dollars can be saved by electronic data processing scheduling in lieu of manual routing. (JF)

A study of relationships between student qualifications and training success in electronic data processing. One table (student characteristics). (Author/LY)

Using computerized data processing to facilitate college admissions procedures. (RA)

Electronic attendance accounting system reduces time and personnel needs in Phoenix, Arizona. (Author)

Discusses the objectives in constructing a centralized and computerized data bank for a school system and the uses to which such a bank could be put. (LS)

Describes the use of an IBM 360/30 computer in the inventory operation of the Norfolk City School System. (DE)

Discusses database design concept termed "normalization" (process replacing associations between data with associations in two-dimensional tabular form) which results in formation of relational databases (they are to computers what dictionaries are to spoken languages). Applications of the database in serials control and complex systems…

This paper discusses considerations in the unwary use of packaged discriminant analysis procedures including: the differences between the "group classification function" and the textbook classification function in both form and use, classification table confusions and their alleviation, and the hazards of stepping procedures. (Author/BW)

Since computers are universally accepted in business today, the accounting classroom is the appropriate place to teach their use. A California high school accounting committee's recommendation led to the school's development of a computer processing program within the accounting department. The program's curriculum is described. (CT)

Explores aspects of data fusion (DF) for information retrieval (IR) using a set of data from the Fifth International Conference on Text Retrieval (TREC5). Derives an equation for effective DF based on a geometric model and shows that the performance of a pair of IR schemes may be approximated by a quadratic polynomial. (Author/LRW)

Discussion of XML (extensible markup language) and the traditional DTD (document type definition) format focuses on efforts of the World Wide Web Consortium's XML schema working group to develop a schema language to replace DTD that will be capable of defining the set of constraints of any possible data resource. (Contains 14 references.) (LRW)