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Feinberg, Rosa Castro – American School Board Journal, 1995
A school board member guides a tour of what is available for organizing school executives' schedules. Describes time-planner notebooks, computer software, and various academic and commercial online databases. Sidebars list the programs and products mentioned, discuss online services, and describe using a time-management planner in campaigning for…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Database Management Systems, Efficiency, Elementary Secondary Education
Bittleston, Richard – Information Management & Technology, 1995
Discusses techniques for managing documents in wide area networks, reviews technique limitations, and offers recommendations to database designers. Presented techniques include: increasing bandwidth, reducing data traffic, synchronizing documentation, partial synchronization, audit trials, navigation, and distribution control and security. Two…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Computer Peripherals, Corporations, Data Processing
Ensor, Pat – Computers in Libraries, 1992
Describes presentations made at a forum on automation, interlibrary loan (ILL), and document delivery sponsored by the Houston Area Library Consortium. Highlights include access versus ownership; software for ILL; fee-based services; automated management systems for ILL; and electronic mail and online systems for end-user-generated ILL requests.…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Software, Conferences, Database Management Systems
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Wongkoltoot, Poonsin; Indee, Somsak – Information Development, 1992
Describes the Thailand Development Research Institute Library's development of an integrated bibliographic system using UNESCO's Micro-ISIS software. Linkages between databases were made using an in-house application (TIBIS) written in CDS/ISIS Pascal. The library system is available on a local area network (LAN). (three references) (EA)
Descriptors: Computer System Design, Database Management Systems, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries
Butkovich, Nancy J.; And Others – Database, 1991
Describes the design and implementation of the Reference Expert, a database based on INMAGIC software which contains problem reference questions and answers for use by library reference desk staff. Topics discussed include staff response to the database and problems encountered in its development. A sidebar describes the use of WORM…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Computer System Design, Database Management Systems, Databases
Martinson, Linda – Business Officer, 1991
Colleges and universities must find a way to streamline and integrate information management processes across the organization. The Georgia Institute of Technology responded to an acute problem of dissimilar operating systems with a campus-wide integrated administrative system using a machine independent relational database management system. (MSE)
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Administration, Computer Oriented Programs, Computers
Lusa, John M. – Telecommunications, 1998
Discusses results of a survey of 112 network and telecom managers--members of the Communications Managers Association (CMA)--to identify problems relating to the operation of large enterprise networks. Results are presented in a table under categories of: respondent profile; network management systems; carrier management; enterprise management;…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Networks, Database Management Systems, Information Networks
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Kostoff, R. N.; Eberhart, Henry J.; Toothman, Darrell Ray – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1999
Database Tomography (DT) is a textual database-analysis system consisting of algorithms for extracting multiword phrase frequencies and proximities from a large textual database, to augment interpretative capabilities of the expert human analyst. Describes use of the DT process, supplemented by literature bibliometric analyses, to derive technical…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Bibliometrics, Computer Oriented Programs, Data Analysis
McLean, William D. – Facilities Manager, 1998
Presents the benefits facilities managers could realize by converting blueprints, CADD information, and as-built drawings into a computer-aided facility management (CAFM) system. CAFM links graphics to databases, adding information on types of spaces, occupants, materials, equipment, costs, and other building systems. This helps facilities…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Design, Computer Oriented Programs, Database Management Systems, Decision Making
Daniels, Ronald; Johnson-Ferguson, Valerie – Principal Leadership, 2001
In the Philadelphia Public Schools, a computer system called Data to Success has been created to assess student progress prior to end-of-year testing. The five-stage system allows a school to influence teacher decisions, identify student warning signs, and monitor important trend and analysis information throughout the school year. (MLH)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Data Collection, Data Interpretation, Database Management Systems
Lawton, Stephen B. – School Business Affairs, 2001
A data-management system adhering to seven principles (concerned with defining and measuring characteristics and their interrelationships) is feasible and exists in parts, if not as an integrated whole. Present data-collection and reportage systems lack the real-time, analytic longitudinal characteristics that contemporary technology promises and…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Data Analysis, Data Interpretation, Database Management Systems
Brown, Shawn – School Business Affairs, 1999
New, highly flexible accounting software packages have abandoned the rigidity of past systems and are designed to be easily customized to the school district's needs without programming. Process-based software integrates processes and work flow, allowing users to work across application and function boundaries, as well as organizational…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Database Management Systems, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
Salpeter, Judy – Technology & Learning, 2004
For some districts, the current obsession with data grows out of the need to comply with No Child Left Behind and additional accountability-related mandates. For others, it dates way back before the phrase "data-driven decision making" rolled so frequently off the tongues of educators. In either case, there is no denying that an integral…
Descriptors: Testing, Test Use, Evaluation Utilization, Data Analysis
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Harvey, Stephen – International Journal of Educational Development, 2004
This article reports on the experiences of the Kimberley Thusanang Project (KTP). It proposes that the project's use of a database system as a management tool represents a significant development in the design of effective education projects in South Africa. The article describes how this system assists project management in overcoming two key…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Educational Development, Educational Administration
Villano, Matt – Campus Technology, 2006
Metaphysically speaking, the idea of self-reflection has been the subject of discussion for thousands of years. The idea carried human beings through the Renaissance, and an entire movement tied to it sparked a sociopolitical movement called the Enlightenment. In more recent times, thought leaders such as Immanuel Kant, Karl Marx, and Sigmund…
Descriptors: Institutional Research, Self Evaluation (Groups), Reflection, Management Information Systems
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