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End User Search Services: A Comparison, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

There are now several time sharing search systems available to the home computer user. These systems provide to home subscribers access to online information, news stories, bibliographic databases, and many other services. Because some of the systems require start-up fees or charge monthly minimums and because the specific characteristics and offerings vary, it makes sense to examine each system and make choices among them.

The five services I will describe and compare are:

1. KNOWLEDGE INDEX, DIALOG Information Services, Inc.

2. BRS/AFTER DARK, BRS

3. THE SOURCE, Source Telecomputing Corporation

4. COMPUSERVE

5. DELPHI, General Videotex Corporation

The Local Sales Tax Handbook For Local Officials, Municipal Technical Advisory Service, County Technical Assistance Service Agencies Of The Institute For Public Service

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

No abstract provided.

Paleoethnobotany Of The Late Woodland Mason Phase In The Elk And Duck River Valleys, Tennessee, J. David Mcmahan

Masters Theses

A substantial sample of paleobotanical residues from two Late Woodland Mason phase components in southeastern Middle Tennessee were examined. The data were analyzed to determine what plants were available to Mason populations, which of those plants were utilized, the local geographic areas exploited, and the impact of man's procurement practices on the environment. Inferences derived from paleobotanical analysis are used to suggest a pattern of Mason plant utilization that can be integrated with other subsystems to provide definitive statements concerning the cultural whole. These statements provide a basis for comparing Mason with other cultural manifestations in the local cultural sequence …

Harris Lines As Indicators Of Stress: An Analysis Of Tibiae From The Crow Creek Massacre Victims, Steven A. Symes

Masters Theses

Horizontal lines of increased density in bone, or Harris lines, have intrigued scientists for over a century. While earliest Harris line research dealt with medical aspects of line formation, most recent emphasis has been anthropological in nature, utilizing Harris lines as non-specific indicators of stress. The purpose of this study is to test the usefulness of Harris lines as they are applied anthropologically.

A sample of 122 adult distal tibiae x-rays are used in this study. This skeletal sample represents massacre victims from the Initial Coalescent Tradition of the Crow Creek Site in central South Dakota. Each bone was sexed …

The Online Future At Asis, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Reports on trends forecasted at the 12th mid-year meeting of the American Society for Information Science (ASIS) in Lexington, Kentucky themed 'The Online Age--Assessment/Directions.' Issues pertaining to online searching; Changing financial aspects; End user searching and intermediaries; Size and organization of the online service industry; Online education; Impact of developments in software and technology.

Technical Bulletins: Municipal Purchasing Law Of 1983: An Explanation, Jim Leuty

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

During the 1983 legislative session, Public Acts Chapter 451 was enacted to amend Title 6, Chapter 56, Tennessee Code Annotated, to establish the "Municipal Purchasing Law of 1983." This Technical Bulletin gives an overview of this legislation.

Postcraniometric Variation Among The Arikara, Terry Stewert Zobeck

Doctoral Dissertations

The postcraniometrics of the Arikara, a Plains Indian group, are analyzed to determine biological relationships. The sample studied is composed of 634 individuals from 10 archaeological sites, all from the state of South Dakota, and ranging in date from A.D. 1600 to 1832.

The data are analyzed with a variety of statistical methodologies; univariate as well as multivariate.

The results show a consistent patterning to the within-group variation, identifying common elements of postcranial structure. The groups analyzed however, show very little group heterogeneity along the lines of the intrapopulation variation. This is contrary to results obtained by several craniometric studies …

Full‑Text, Downloading, And Other Issues, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Focuses on issues related to online databases for full-text, downloading and frontend processors on services in U.S. libraries as discussed at National Online Meeting held at New York City in April 1983. Pricing policy for full-text databases; Available full text databases; Role of libraries towards online databases; Factors influencing the downloading.

Stimulus, Vol. 8, No. 1, Ut College Of Social Work

Stimulus Alumni Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Survival Strategies For Tusculum College: An Ethnographic Evaluation Of Enrollment, Student Recruitment And School Image, Steven B. Hearn

Masters Theses

Many institutions of higher education have experienced a decrease in their student enrollments. One such institution, Tusculum College of Greeneville, Tennessee, has seen a drastic 55% decline in its enrollment over the past ten years. Unless this trend is reversed, Tusculum College faces a very uncertain future.

The purpose of this study was to develop a strategy which would help Tusculum College attract a greater number of students. To accomplish this, it was necessary to (1) analyze the college's current enrollment trends, (2) identify those geographic areas where the college currently attracts its greatest number of students, (3) determine the …

Technical Bulletins: Estimate Of 1983-84 State Shared Funds For Cities, Ken Joines

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

A summary of what cities could expect to receive from the state shared taxes for the 1983-84 fiscal year.

In‑House Databases Ii: Evaluating And Choosing Software, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Informs that the column 'Online Databases' published in the May 1, 1983 issue of Library Journal will concentrate on evaluation of software for in-house databases. Dependence of software package evaluation on needs analysis; Identification of individual situation and constraints; Suggestion that evaluation should be done by matching the capabilities and characteristics of each package.

Technical Bulletins: Urban Forestry Assistance Available To Tennessee Cities, Carol C. Hewlett

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin provides information about the Tennessee Urban Forestry Program, a service available to Tennessee municipalities, designed to help cities with a variety of tree-related problems and projects.

In‑House Databases I: Software Sources, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Discusses the prospects of creating in-house databases for libraries in view of the advantages of online information access. Use of private file services instead of purchasing a software to create online database; Directories containing information about library-related microcomputer software; Periodicals carrying announcements and reviews of library software; Online directory providing information about library software.

Technical Bulletins: Meeting The End-Of-Fiscal-Year Budget Crunch, E. W. Meisenhelder

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin discusses three techniques that could be used to mitigate some of the adverse effects of economic recession on municipal budgets.

Dialog’S Knowledge Index And Brs/After Dark: Database Searching On Personal Computers, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

DIALOG's Knowledge Index and BRS' After Dark allow microcomputer owners to access these bibliographic databases cheaply at night. Online searching at home, as well as in the library, is now possible. Query languages are simplified, circumventing intermediary need. Both are reviewed.

Mortuary Patterning Within The Dallas Culture At Toqua, Gary T. Scott

Masters Theses

The purpose of this study was to examine the mortuary patterning at Toqua, a late Mississippian site on the Little Tennessee River in East Tennessee. Analytical considerations included testing an energy expenditure model based on burial pit size, shape, modifications, location, and grave associations.

The sample included 533 individuals from 511 burials. Non-random patterning of intra-site burial traits indicated the presence of social stratification at the chiefdom level of socio-cultural integration. There were five distinct site areas, two mounds, two villages and a structure, which were analyzed and ordered according to relative social ranking. Mound A (N=115) contained individuals with …

The Demography, Long Bone Growth, And Pathology Of A Middle Archaic Skeletal Population From Middle Tennessee: The Anderson Site (40wm9), Bonnie C. Joerschke

Masters Theses

A biological examination of the skeletal remains from the Anderson site, 40WM9, Williamson County, Tennessee, was conducted to provide information about the nature of Middle Archaic populations from Middle Tennessee. Vital statistics were reconstructed by means of a life table assuming stable population conditions. Results of this analysis indicate a pattern of low infant/child mortality and high adult mortality. Life expectancy at birth was 23 years and the crude death rate was 43 per 1000 per annum.

The health status of the Anderson population was further inferred through investigations of long bone growth and bone pathologies. The long bone growth …

Multivariate Discriminant Function Analyses Of The Mandible In American Caucasoid And American Negroid Populations, Dorn P. Kile

Masters Theses

The purpose of this thesis is to develop a statistical method whereby the race and sex of an unknown individual may be ascertained from measurements taken from the mandible alone. Twenty-five such measurements were obtained from 160 mandibles representing, equally, American male and female Negro and Caucasian individuals. The skeletal collection used was the Terry collection at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.

The data obtained were analyzed by nine separate discriminate functions representing various aspects of the mandible, including one which discriminated the samples by race only.

To test the significance and reliability of using such a procedure for …

Databases: Catching Up And Keeping Up, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Presents information related to commercially available online databases of interest to library professionals in the U.S. Textbooks on introductory overviews of online searching; List of monographs on online searching in libraries; Journal literature on databases on online searching; List of bibliographies on online searching; Directories of databases; List of periodicals and vendor periodicals.

Technical Bulletins: Revenue Sharing Actual Use Report: Public Notice, Michael Tallent

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin served as a reminder of the requirement for cities to publish a notice that their revenue sharing actual use report had been filed. The publication requirement was noted on Page 5 of the TN-2 form received by Tennessee cities. Included is a sample notice.

Budget Preparation Manual, The University Of Tennessee Center For Government Training, Municipal Technical Advisory Service

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

The purpose of this handbook, which can be used after the completion of the workshop, is to provide an overview into the budget preparation process. With the staff and other resources available in City Hall, you will be able, to develop a "plan for spending money" which enables you to show to the public how you intend to spend their tax dollars, as well as show the controls you'll establish by the spending limits you set. The budgetary controls become the yardstick by which the progress of spending money can be measured. Also, the budget serves as a yard stick …

Directory Of Tennessee Municipal Officials 1983-84, Mtas

Municipal Directories

A directory of Tennessee cities that includes personnel and municipal data, such as number of employees, population, charter form, size in square miles, and election date, for 1983-84.

Technical Bulletins: Timing Of A Special Census, E. W. Meisenhelder

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

To obtain the maximum benefit in state-shared taxes, when are the best times for a municipality to conduct the twice-in-a-decade special censuses authorized by Tennessee law? Covered in this report are the major factors a city must consider in answering this question.

Technical Bulletins: Changes In Federal Law Will Increase The Costs Of Health Insurance, Harold R. Yungmeyer

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin discusses changes in the Federal Social Security Act and in the Federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, changes which affected group health insurance premiums for cities with any employees over 65 years of age.

Technical Bulletins: Revised Estimates Of 1982-83 State-Shared Taxes, Ken Joines, Jim Leuty

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin provides a revised estimate of the amount of money cities could expect to receive from state shared taxes for 1982-83. The previous estimate, from April 19, 1982, had factored in an expected upturn in the economy which did not materialize. In addition to the revised estimates, included is a copy of an article by Dr. Harry A. Green, executive director of TACIR, which gives an overview of the total revenue systems in Tennessee local government.

Stimulus, Vol. 7, No. 2, Ut College Of Social Work

Stimulus Alumni Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Technical Bulletins: Items To Consider Before And After Incorporation, William R. Bailey, E. W. Meisenhelder

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

Section I of this report is designed to assist Tennessee communities considering incorporating as municipalities. It is not intended to be a comprehensive examination of the question, "Should we incorporate?" The report does attempt to respond to some of the most often-expressed concerns of those trying to reach a decision. Included are the major advantages and disadvantages of incorporation, comparisons of the forms of government available to potential municipalities under Tennessee law, and the steps to be taken to place the question of incorporation before qualified voters.

Patterns Of Association Between Oral Health Status And Subsistence: A Study Of Aboriginal Skeletal Populations From The Tennessee Valley Area, Maria Ostendorf Smith

Doctoral Dissertations

The purpose of this study is to identify subsistence associated differences in caries, periodontal disease and attrition between two aboroginal skeletal samples from the Tennessee Valley area. The hunter/gather sample employed in this study dates from the Archaic period (6000-500 B.C.) and is composed of individuals from the Eva(6BN12), Cherry (84BN74) and Anderson (40WM9) sites. The Mississippian Dallas focus (1300-1500 A.D.) site of Toqua (40MR6) practiced maize agriculture.

Contrasts in caries frequency, location on the tooth, and distribution along the tooth row were readily apparent. Cervical caries in the posterior tooth row characterized the Archaic sample. The pattern is attributed …

Stimulus, Vol. 7, No. 2, Ut College Of Social Work

Stimulus Alumni Newsletter

No abstract provided.