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Download full textBruce, Elizabeth W. – North Dakota Library Notes, 1974
The current trend in biomedical information systems is to decentralization. Starting with the Medical Library Assistance Act of 1965, various plans of organization have been tried for improving the national diffusion of medical information. In 1968 the John Crerar Library became the Midwest Regional Medical Library, serving as an intermediary…
Descriptors: Consortia, Decentralization, Diffusion, Information Networks
Neumann, A. J. – 1973
User access procedures to information systems have become of crucial importance with the advent of computer networks, which have opened new types of resources to a broad spectrum of users. This report surveys user access protocols of six representative systems: BASIC, GE MK II, INFONET, MEDLINE, NIC/ARPANET and SPIRES. Functional access…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Computers, Information Networks, Input Output
Stillman, Rona B. – 1974
The problem of quality service assurance in a computer networking environment is addressed. In the absence of any direct, well-defined, quantitative measure of service quality and reliability, error collection and analysis is the only basis for service quality control. Therefore, mechanisms are described which facilitate reporting of operational…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Data Processing, Documentation, Information Networks
Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL. Center for the Teaching Professions. – 1973
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…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Programs, Computers, Conference Reports
Cotton, Ira W. – 1974
A study was made of management practices in different computer networks. The five networks were chosen as typical of different approaches to network implementation and management: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) Network, MERIT Network, Triangle Universities Computation Center (TUCC), Oregon State Regional Network, and Tymnet (a…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrative Organization, Administrative Policy, Administrative Problems
Asher, William; Vockell, Edward – 1973
Research investigated: 1) the quality of literature disseminated through an educational information channel, 2) its acceptance level, and 3) its effects upon decision-making. Some 102 research documents were selected from the 1971 entries in Research in Education (RIE), the abstracting and microfiche dissemination service for unpublished…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Diffusion, Educational Research, Information Dissemination
Carter, Robert M. – 1972
Taking the broad range of human communications as a background, this book elaborates upon communication theory and mass media methods to delineate facets of organizational communication. Of major concern are topics in information and systems theory, the types of barriers to communication in organizations, communications both up and down the chain…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Group Dynamics, Information Networks, Interpersonal Relationship
Day, T. B. – 1973
There is a need for ethical guidance in the communications professions sharpened by the advancement of knowledge and technological capability. For communication to be all-encompassing in space as well as instantaneous in time is a mixed blessing reaffirming the need for balance between "secrecy" in arriving at decisions and the public's need and…
Descriptors: Censorship, Communication (Thought Transfer), Communications, Ethics
Grignetti, Mario C.; Warnock, Eleanor H. – 1973
A description of the NET-SCHOLAR system, an on-line aid for naive users of the Advanced Research Projects Administration (ARPA) Computer Network, is provided. The discussion focuses upon the system's representation and handling of functional and procedural information and its ability to deal with action verbs, all within the context of the ARPA…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Science, Decision Making
Shamberg, Michael – Radical Software, 1971
A series of post-McLuhan perceptions reiterates that new media have made possible new ways of experiencing the world. For the young in "Media-America" who have grown up with television, completed products like books are less important than ongoing process. The best means for recording this ongoing process is videotape camera. The introduction of a…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Communications, Communications, Information Networks, Innovation
Licklider, J. C. R.; And Others – 1965
The context of this study includes: (1) the Government's arrangements to facilitate the flow of scientific and technical information, (2) the vast but amorphous "usership" of information in government, industry, the universities, and the public, and (3) the rapidly advancing technology of information. The purpose was to examine and…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Government Role, Information Dissemination, Information Needs
International Council of Scientific Unions, Paris (France). – 1971
In view of the vital role which scientific and technical information has come to play in the development of nations, the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) was authorized to undertake and to complete jointly with the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU) a feasibility study…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Developing Nations, Information Needs, Information Networks
Wolfe, Theodore – 1970
This report presents a review and evaluation of three remote access on-line information retrieval systems and some ideas on what the capabilities of an ideal on-line information retrieval system should be. The three systems reviewed are the DDC Remote On-Line Retrieval System, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration RECON System, and the…
Descriptors: Display Systems, Information Dissemination, Information Networks, Information Retrieval
Brong, Gerald R. – 1970
The problems and prospects faced by involving the nonprint informational units in interlibrary communication and information networks are described. Nonprint materials are defined as those materials not totally dependent on the printed word for meaning. Nonprint materials were further identified as storage devices for information or…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Conferences, Information Dissemination, Information Networks
Bunge, Charles A. – 1970
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…
Descriptors: Conferences, Information Networks, Information Retrieval, Information Sources
