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Wessel, C. J.; Moore, K. L. – 1969
This report assesses and recommends criteria and methods for evaluating the performance (effectiveness and efficiency) of technical library operations and services. These criteria and methods include those identified in the state-of-the-art of library evaluation (existing criteria and methods) and those developed by adoption of criteria from the…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Evaluation Criteria, Library Services, Library Technical Processes
Hayes, R. M.; Reilly, K. D. – 1967
A simulation program is presented which considers the effect of response time upon the utilization of a multiple node information system. Specific examples of such systems are presented. They include: (1) information networks, (2) library systems, (3) multi-level files. The simulation characterizes users (in terms of their information requirements…
Descriptors: Information Services, Information Sources, Information Systems, Information Utilization
Nwagbaraocha, Joel O. – Research Profile, 1974
The increasing magnitude of the enterprise of education, the rapid growth of knowledge, the changing educational administrative requirements and challenges, and the development of new educational programs to match the range of students' diverse interests and capacities--all these challenges call for rapid upgrading of the quality and technique of…
Descriptors: Administration, Educational Administration, Educational Planning, Higher Education
Newman, Burton A.; And Others – 1971
If a satellite-based educational networking and delivery system is to find wide acceptance in the United States and is to be economically viable, it must be capable of interconnecting many headends or nodes on the ground and of delivering quantities of diverse program material. A large number of TV-equivalent bandwidth channels will be required to…
Descriptors: Communications Satellites, Educational Specifications, Educational Television, Electromechanical Technology
Booz, Allen Applied Research, Inc., Bethesda, MD. – 1968
The scope of Phase II is the design of a system for document control within the National Agricultural Library (NAL) that will facilitate the processing of the documents selected, ordered, or received; that will avoid backlogs; and that will provide rapid document location reports. The results are set forth as follows: Chapter I, Introduction,…
Descriptors: Design, Information Systems, Library Automation, National Libraries
Haefele, Donald, Comp. – 1971
This publication stems from a project to help teacher educators and other professionals study the Comprehensive Elementary Teacher Education Models (CETEMs) by providing information and promoting future-planning through participant examination of systematic planning techniques. The seven papers included are 1) "Teacher Education and…
Descriptors: Educational Planning, Elementary School Teachers, Systems Analysis, Teacher Education
Kling, Martin – 1966
This study was designed to extend the generality of the Substrata-Factor Theory by two methods of investigation: (1) theoretically, to establish the validity of the hypothesis that an isomorphic relationship exists between the Substrata-Factor Theory and the General Open Systems Theory, and (2) experimentally, to discover through a series of…
Descriptors: Models, Reading, Reading Processes, Systems Analysis
Zunde, Pranas – 1972
Recent developments in science and engineering indicate the need for systems approach to problem solving in the widest sense. Following the explication of the concept of a system, the scope of system theory and systems engineering is discussed and operationally defined, with characteristic features of the methodology of systems science and…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Engineering, Engineering Education, Management Systems
Baldridge, J. Victor – 1971
This paper removes one of the major drawbacks to understanding change by offering a definition of organizational change which specifies the system levels that are subject to change and explains the nature of the relationship between these various levels and the overall goals of the organization. Two strategies for studying organizational change…
Descriptors: Organization, Organizational Change, Political Power, Social Psychology
BRATTEN, JACK E. – 1966
A MODEL OF THE MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT AT THE GARBER HIGH SCHOOL AS ESSEXVILLE, MICHIGAN, AS A SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING STUDENTS WAS DESCRIBED IN THE LAST OF A SERIES OF THREE REPORTS. THE RESULTS OBTAINED THROUGH SIMULATING THE SYSTEM ON A COMPUTER WERE ALSO REPORTED. A FEATURE OF THE PLAN WAS NOTED TO BE ITS FLEXIBILITY IN PROVIDING A UNIQUE PROGRAM…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Continuous Progress Plan, Mathematics Instruction, Models
Brown, R. J. – Educational Administration, 1978
Uses Eastonian systems analysis to examine the Inner London Educational education. (IRT)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Organization, Policy Formation
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Heintz, Timothy J. – AEDS Journal, 1978
This article discusses a procedure commonly called a systems study in which administrative personnel can evaluate systematically their information needs and can specify them in sufficient detail for technical specialists to make recommendations for possible improvements. (Author)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Management Information Systems, Small Colleges, Systems Analysis
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Cottone, R. Rocco – Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin, 1987
Presents a theory of vocational rehabilitation based on social systems theory. Provides a history of social systems theory and a list of some basic systemic tenets. Relates systemic tenets to vocational rehabilitation systems, reconceptualizing the process and structure of those systems, thereby providing a comprehensive, theoretical framework for…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Models, Social Systems, Systems Analysis
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Moulton, Lynda W. – Special Libraries, 1987
Outlines the process involved in selecting or developing software for building a machine-readable database and the special librarian's role in that process. The following steps are identified: (1) needs assessment; (2) project cost and justification; (3) software selection; (4) implementation; and (5) startup and maintenance. Twelve references are…
Descriptors: Database Management Systems, Library Automation, Needs Assessment, Program Implementation
Kaufman, Roger – Educational Technology, 1986
An algorithm or decision chart is presented which provides basic decision steps to help management decide what data should be collected to derive valid and correct objectives, and to determine what levels of objectives will be selected relative to products, outputs, or outcomes of an organization. (MBR)
Descriptors: Algorithms, Decision Making, Needs Assessment, Organizational Effectiveness
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