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Forest Service (USDA), Berkeley, CA. Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station. – 1969
Although designed to process personal reference collections maintained by researchers, Famulus is suitable for a large number of other applications. For this purpose it can be regarded as a general-purpose system. This manual presents it as such a system. The eight main Famulus programs described are: "Edit"--writes punched card input onto tape.…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Data Processing, Guides, Information Processing
New England Board of Higher Education, Wellesley, MA. – 1970
The final report on the Council on Library Resources (CLR) Grant #443 for the New England Library Information Network (NELINET) is divided into three parts. Section one is a general commentary on the NELINET project, which was conceived to test the viability of creating a centralized, regional capability to use electronic data processing…
Descriptors: Computers, Data Processing, Foreign Countries, Information Networks
McIsaac, Donald N.; And Others – 1972
The papers presented at a symposium on geocoding describe the preparation of a geocoded data file, some basic applications for education planning, and its use in trend analysis to produce contour maps for any desired characteristic. Geocoding data involves locating each entity, such as students or schools, in terms of grid coordinates on a…
Descriptors: Codification, Computer Programs, Computers, Data Processing
Neidt, Charles O. – 1971
Reported is a compilation of the data collected from a comprehensive evaluation of the Information Retrieval Center of the Northern Colorado Educational Board of Cooperative Services (NCEBOCS) The evaluation consists of an historical review of the Center (1967-1970), analysis of requests received, user reactions to the services, interviews with…
Descriptors: Automation, Data Processing, Education, Evaluation
McDowell, B. A. J.; And Others – 1970
The operation of the new automated circulation system at Southampton University Library is recorded in this report. The report is intended mainly for those with experience of automation, and so a brief non-technical account of the work of the Counter staff is included. The report describes the six transactions for which the machine is programmed,…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Data Processing, Foreign Countries, Library Automation
California Univ., Santa Barbara. Library Systems Development Program. – 1971
Very preliminary systems concepts are presented for the Order and Standard Loan Subsystems. Each of the tasks defined for the current manual operations in (Library Systems Development) LSD 70-60 are evaluated against these concepts to determine how existing work will change when mechanized systems are installed. Then, utilizing this qualitative…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Data Processing, Library Automation, Library Technical Processes
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Toma, Peter P.; And Others – 1972
This report describes an optimization phase of the SYSTRAN (System Translation) machine translation technique. The most distinctive characteristic of SYSTRAN is the absence of pre-editing; the program reads tapes containing raw and unedited Russian texts, carries out dictionary and table lookups, performs all syntactic analysis procedures, and…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Data Processing, Dictionaries, English
Wellar, Barry S.; Graff, Thomas O. – 1971
The aim of this bibliography is to provide a guide to the diverse body of literature that deals with the "geographic or spatial characteristics" of the data elements and data items in each of the following five phases: (1) Specification, (2) Acquisition, (3) Processing, (4) Dissemination and (5) Application. It is intended to provide…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Data Processing, Databases, Geography
Scalice, John J. – 1976
This study guide in data processing is designed to make the subject accessible to the secondary student. It contains the following units: Historical Developments, Understanding the Computer, Careers in Data Processing, The Tabulating Card, Keypunching, Interpreting, Sorting, The 514 Reproducer, The 85 Collator, and The 402 Accounting Machine. The…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Data Processing, Instructional Materials, Secondary Education
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Foecke, Jerome F. – AEDS Journal, 1979
Examines the external change forces in the environment and their resultant impact on the internal structure and activities of an organization designed to jointly develop uses of computers and data processing techniques to facilitate the administrative, instruction, and research activities of member school districts. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Consortia, Cooperative Programs, Data Processing, Elementary Secondary Education
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Crowder, R. Marshall – Journal of Library Automation, 1978
Reviews the history of federal regulation in the communications industry, places the "Bell Bill" in some historical perspective, and relates the significance of activities in the regulatory sphere to the concerns of libraries. (Author/VT)
Descriptors: Data Processing, Federal Legislation, Libraries, Library Networks
Kochen, Manfred – Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science, 1978
Trends in information exchange are discussed, including computer technologies becoming faster, smaller, and cheaper; human labor costs rising; electronic information exchange utilized in more phases of our daily lives; and the continuing increase in the volume of data. Implications for the information science profession are considered. (Author/MB…
Descriptors: Costs, Data Processing, Human Resources, Information Science
Nord, Daryl; Seymour, Tom – Balance Sheet, 1978
After a brief discussion of the history and current status of business data processing versus computer science, this article focuses on the characteristics of a business data processing curriculum as compared to a computer science curriculum, including distinctions between the FORTRAN and COBOL programming languages. (SH)
Descriptors: Business Administration, Computer Science, Curriculum, Data Processing
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Nord, Daryl; Seymour, Tom – Business Education Forum, 1978
The author discusses differences between the business data processing and the computer science curriculums in postsecondary education. The business data processing curriculum requires little math and science, and the computer science curriculum little business preparation. He cites characteristics of each discipline and suggests that both…
Descriptors: Business Education, College Curriculum, Comparative Analysis, Computer Science Education
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Conger, Lucinda D. – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1976
Discusses four basic aspects of data reference work: 1) How files are created as related to the main sources for acquisition of data files; 2) What publications help to identify available data files; 3) What variables appear in which data files; 4) What information about the physical medium of file storage is needed to use the file on a computer.…
Descriptors: Computers, Data Processing, Library Role, Library Services
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