Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1979

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Smith, Lawrence E.

Abstract

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.

Extent

164 p.

Comments

Thesis (Educat.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1979.|College of Education|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Thesis (Educat.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1979.

Identifier

FADT11736

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