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SELECTIVE DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION (SDI); HISTORY AND APPLICATION, TRENDS, AND ISSUES, 1958-1978: AN OVERVIEW FOR THE EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATOR

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1979
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One of the key aspects of any administrative program is the forwarding of appropriate information to personnel who must use that information in the context of their work. The historical study provides the educational administrator with an instrument which will assist him in considering an information management concept, the selective dissemination of information (SDI). So that the educational administrator may judge whether SDI is suitable for his own unique purposes, an overview is given of SDI's various components, its development, its application in a myriad of diversified fields, its trends, and its issues. Since SDI's formalization, certain trends have emerged in its use. These trends have included its expansion into diverse fields, its coping with a proliferation of machine readable data bases, an increase in subscriberships to SDI systems, an increase on the use of group profiles by researchers, the use of SDI in information networks, and the use of microforms in SDI systems. There have been issues raised in the use of SDI, issues which the educational administrator should be familiar with in determining the applicability of SDI to his unique situation. The issues explored relate to cost evaluation, quality evaluation, user evaluation, data base problems, and limitations due to copyright law.
Title: SELECTIVE DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION (SDI); HISTORY AND APPLICATION, TRENDS, AND ISSUES, 1958-1978: AN OVERVIEW FOR THE EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATOR.
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Name(s): DICKINSON, DAVID EARL.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Smith, Lawrence E., Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1979
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 164 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: One of the key aspects of any administrative program is the forwarding of appropriate information to personnel who must use that information in the context of their work. The historical study provides the educational administrator with an instrument which will assist him in considering an information management concept, the selective dissemination of information (SDI). So that the educational administrator may judge whether SDI is suitable for his own unique purposes, an overview is given of SDI's various components, its development, its application in a myriad of diversified fields, its trends, and its issues. Since SDI's formalization, certain trends have emerged in its use. These trends have included its expansion into diverse fields, its coping with a proliferation of machine readable data bases, an increase in subscriberships to SDI systems, an increase on the use of group profiles by researchers, the use of SDI in information networks, and the use of microforms in SDI systems. There have been issues raised in the use of SDI, issues which the educational administrator should be familiar with in determining the applicability of SDI to his unique situation. The issues explored relate to cost evaluation, quality evaluation, user evaluation, data base problems, and limitations due to copyright law.
Identifier: 11736 (digitool), FADT11736 (IID), fau:8668 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Thesis (Educat.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1979.
College of Education
Subject(s): School management and organization
Selective dissemination of information
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