The majority of this publication is comprised of 13 feature articles covering a wide range of topics in the areas of educational technology and library and information sciences. Also offered are related abstracts found in the ERIC Database and the latest news at the ERIC Clearinghouse on Information & Technology, including the publication of…

This paper provides a historic overview of the evolution during the last century of gray literature in the knowledge society. The first section presents some definitions of gray literature and the stages of its development from the beginning of the 20th century to the present. Some institutions that played a key role in the administration of this…

This paper discusses the experiences of the IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions) Twinning Project, an international twinning database developed and maintained by the IFLA Programme for Universal Availability of Publications, which acts as a kind of "dating agency" aiming to match partner libraries as…

A search of two major English language databases, Library Literature and LISA (Library and Information Science Abstracts) for 1990-2000 was undertaken for the latest reports pertaining to literacy, including major surveys, evaluation studies, manuals on libraries and literacy, and recent major national or regional literacy movements that involved…

The article discusses some of the problems of introducing machine-readable data bases into the library service environment. Authors describe diverse approaches used in making tapes of the 1970 Census of Population and Housing available to users through the library. (JB)

Statistics gathered over five years of operation by the IIT Research Institute's Computer Search Center are summarized for profile terms and lists, use of truncation modes, use of logic operators, some characteristics of CA Condensates, etc. (Author/JB)

The operations of the New England Research Application Center's IBM 1130 are described and the problems of using it for chemical information retrieval are discussed. (Author/JB)

An "answer-passage" is a passage which is either answer-providing or "answer indicative." New text searching techniques for the retrieval of answer-passages are discussed. Appendices listing thesauri, glossaries and dictionaries, syntactic joints, and connector words are included. (31 references) (Author/RS)

Implications of research findings comparing structural characteristics of two data bases for the development of screening systems for substructure search are set out. (4 references) (Author/SJ)

The social sciences require multiple methods of analysis of information from complex data bases. Data bases have been constructed which contain hierarchical, spatial, and temporal associations among information elements. To provide effective processing capability an integrated approach was taken to facilitate storage and retrieval, statistical…

An International Serials Data System (ISDS) is being established within the framework of UNISIST--a world science information system. National and regional centers will supply input on new titles to the register and act as a link between the international center and individual users. (4 references) (Author)

An analysis of five commercial service centers and various data bases is presented. A current awareness profile covering both chemical and botanical fields was sent to each service center. The responses were evaluated on the basis of promptness, interaction with the user, and physical format of the listing, among other things. (Author/NH)

The data base coverage of these two services was examined and selected computerized searches performed. The results of this study provided some meaningful conclusions as to the general utility of these services. (3 references) (Author/NH)

The performance of CA Condensates" (CC) and Chemical Titles" (CT) based on analysis of precision and relative recall CT/CC" for 46 search profiles was studied for one year. The results are discussed in terms of the value of the systems as seen from the users' and the documentalist's point of view. (13 references) (Author/NH)

The paper describes TSAR, a current awareness or SDI system which has been developed for processing MARC records in general, but is particularly concerned with the INSPEC service. Some statistics on the frequency of occurrence of words and comments on data compression conclude the paper. (7 references) (Author/SJ)