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Download full textERIC Clearinghouse on Rural Education and Small Schools, Las Cruces, NM. – 1977
The 11-item annotated bibliography provides a comprehensive guide to resource material, research findings, and developments related to public libraries and Mexican Americans. Published between 1970 and 1976, the materials are drawn from issues of "Resources in Education" (RIE) and "Current Index to Journals in Education"…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Bookmobiles, Branch Libraries, Information Centers
Murray, C. Richard; Reeves, E. Bodette – 1977
The United States Geological Survey has compiled data on water use in this country every fifth year since 1950. This document is the most recent of this series and presents data on water withdrawn for use in the United States in 1975. In the introduction, recent and present water use studies are discussed along with a description of the…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Environmental Research, Environmental Technicians, Futures (of Society)
User Selection of Purchased Information Services. Interim Technical Report (June 1975-January 1976).
Hall, Homer J. – 1976
Interviews conducted in the first phase of a project to develop a method for user selection of purchased scientific and technical information services identified a number of relationship among different populations of users. Research scientists, engineers, and patent attorneys want convenient access to original data identified in the search.…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making, Information Needs, Information Services
Wells, Dorothy P. – 1975
Since recorded usage of vertical files in a university library does not always indicate actual needs of patrons, a study was conducted on the use of a collection of 20,000 pamphlets over a three-year period (1972-75). Data were collected from circulation records and from a questionnaire circulated with each pamphlet. Three subject areas had the…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Information Needs, Information Sources, Library Circulation
Clague, P. – 1971
The performance, economics and acceptability to users of the INSPEC SDI system were investigated in this study. The effect that provision of an SDI service might have on the information-use habits of users was also studied. The sample group of users consisted of 600 individuals of whom 540 were drawn equally from: universities and colleges,…
Descriptors: Economics, Electronics, Foreign Countries, Information Dissemination
Clague, P. – 1971
Volume II of this five volume investigation of the INSPEC SDI system contains discussions of the following topics: (1) Composition of user and control groups and the information use habits of users and controls, (2) thesaurus development and document indexing, (3) problems of printing notification cards and assessing numbers required for each…
Descriptors: Economics, Foreign Countries, Indexing, Information Dissemination
Clague, P. – 1971
The third volume of this five volume study of the INSPEC SDI system contains: Recall performance of SDI profiles; Assessment of the Recall performance of the SDI system in relation to particularly valuable articles; Subjective assessment of the SDI system Recall performance; Relation between Precision performance of the system and document…
Descriptors: Economics, Electronics, Foreign Countries, Information Dissemination
Clague, P. – 1971
Volume IV of this five volume study of the INSPEC SDI system consists of the following appendices to the study: A proposal to investigate the selective dissemination of information; Covering letter to questionnaire; Questionnaire: survey of information use; Chasing letter; Letter of invitation to participate; Chasing letter; Statement of…
Descriptors: Economics, Electronics, Foreign Countries, Information Dissemination
Clague, P. – 1971
The appendices included in Volume V of this five volume study of the INSPEC SDI system are a continuation of those in Volume IV and consist of: Communications with users etc.; Specimen sheets from descriptor file; Time on profile modification and analysis, and user assessment; Profiles compiled by compilers 1, 2, and 3; Proposed comparison of…
Descriptors: Economics, Electronics, Foreign Countries, Information Dissemination
Faibisoff, Sylvia G.; Ely, Donald P. – 1974
Information is a staple of modern society upon which nearly every human being depends. Yet there is a mismatch between the information needs and the information that is available. To assess information needs, a conceptual framework must be built. Information is defined as a symbol or set of symbols which has the potential for meaning. Finding a…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Information Needs, Information Science, Information Seeking
Buckland, Michael K.; And Others – 1970
The objectives of this study are to ensure that the resources at the disposal of the librarian are deployed in a manner which will effectively contribute to the purposes of the university. User behavior is explored in an attempt to solve the difficulties that arise in library planning and management, such as: (1) the relationship between length of…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Educational Research, Library Planning, Library Research
Pan, Elizabeth – 1970
The literature on automated serials control systems and related subjects is reviewed and conclusions are drawn on the issues raised. As much as possible the data reported in the literature are verified. A selected bibliography of documents published prior to the data of this report is prepared. In addition to descriptions of the major serials…
Descriptors: Automation, Bibliographies, Costs, Data Processing
Reilly, K. D. – 1968
An outline is presented for a digital computer simulation model for an information network for the State of California. The methodology of simulation is discussed initially. The problems presented by the very large size of the system, in terms of materials, users, communication connections are depicted, and solutions are suggested which permit…
Descriptors: Computers, Information Networks, Information Services, Information Storage
Bourque, Ellsworth J. – 1969
Responding to the problem of a lag between research advances in rehabilitation and their dissemination and utilization, the Task Force on Research Utilization (H.E.W., 1966), studied the gap and proposed the creation of a new kind of professional "change agent." Out of a later conference at the University of Florida came a very similar suggestion.…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Educational Research, Information Utilization, Research Problems
Dennison, Barbara – 1969
The study for which this supplement was prepared consisted of an investigation of the use of libraries outside their own campus by the students, faculty, and research personnel of Ohio colleges and universities. The results, conclusions and recommendations based on the data collected are published separately (LI 001 802). This supplement consists…
Descriptors: College Libraries, College Students, Doctoral Dissertations, Faculty
