Feasible uses of the computer in curriculum management are in the areas of curriculum planning, curriculum implementation, and curriculum evaluation. (Author/CB)

Techniques, media, and systems for making organized data available exist, but have not been used extensively enough. Reasons for failure to use these are explored and recommendations made for extraction by authors at time of writing, centralized organization, and publication through existing organization. Datum signatures are described. (50…

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)

A design is described for a system to manage the information directly related to the experimental work in a toxicological laboratory. A number of distinct input procedures provide data to a set of co-existing data bases. Periodic, event-triggered, predefined demand, and ad hoc reports are posited. (12 references) (Author/NH)

Resource sharing of computer facilities is seen as the best hope in the future for computing facilities at colleges and universities and for dealing effectively with change. (RA)