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Firestein, Kenneth; And Others
AUTHOR
Appropriate Technology Bibliography.
TITLE
California Univ., Davis. Univ. Library.
INSTITUTION
Oct 83
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IDENTIFIERS
Technology
ABSTRACT
appropriate
This bibliography of literature on
1 is an alphabetical
technology is divided into three parts. Part
at the beginning of
listing of entries by title. Entries with numbers
includes author, publication
the title are listed first. Each entry
total pages, institution, aad other
year, publisher, source,
context" (KWIC)
information. Part 2 is a rotated or "key word in
major terms or key words
index. This is an alphabetical listing by
indexed because they were too
found in titles. A list of words not
provided at the beginning of this
common or uninformative are
authors listed in each
section. Part 3 is an index of the first
published and/or entered into
citation of the bibliography. Materials
brief
1977 through May 1983 are included. A
one of 11 databases from
the bibliography is
discussion of the methodology used to generate
also provided. (JN)
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APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
by
Kenneth Firestein
with
Linda Hoffmann
Hans Rocke
Johanna Ross
October 1983
Davis
University of California,
General Library
REPRODUCE THI'
"PERMISSION TO
ONL
MATERIAL IN MICROFICHE
Bernard Kreissman
BY
HAS BEEN GRANTED
tirt
University Librarian
KennetkLi F
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This project was funded
by a grant from
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RESOURCE
TO THE EDUCATIONAL
California
(ERIC)."
a-
the University of
INFORMATION CENTER
Appropriate Technology Program
Table of Contents
ii
Page
Acknowledgements
Generate
The Use of Appropriate Technology to
iii
This Bibliography
Key to Format and Abbreviations:
vi
Period of Coverage
1-103
The Bibliography
I
104
Index
KWIC (Key Word In Context)
104-105
Stop-word List for KWIC Index
106-185
The KWIC Index
186-197
Author Index
Acknowledgements
helpful in making this project a
Several people were very
They are:
reality.
Systems and Automation Depart-
Karl Kocher, of the'Library's
much
months of the project gave us
ment, who in the final
generously of his skillS and
advice and information and gave
Ulti-
invaluable.
His assistance and.knowledge were
time.
this,
how, in future work such as
mately his help shOwed us
computer.
goals on our own Library's
we can accomplish our
utilize
.his help we will be able to
We anticipate that with
the future,
for similar projects in
the Library's computer
building on our experience.
of
consulted concerning the uses
Kevin Roddy, with whom we
and'the 'several other available
the,UNIX computing systems
.He often made himself
sorting and formattirg programs.
assistance was very importantAnd
available to us and his
useful.
his
who graciously allowed us to use
Dr. Richard Donovan,
accomplish most of the
minicomputer to' demonstrate and
records.
downloading of bibliographic
to the
acknowledge our appreciation
We would like. also to
two
their support in at least
Library Administration for
of the Library's
'One was, of course, the use
notable ways.
1983 UNIX orientation
The other was the Spring,
computer.
helpful to us in accomplishing
clsses which were very
by Kazuko Dailey
Those programs, organized
'this project.
staff,
well received by all the
and Katherine Mawdsley, were
Technology
value to the Appropriate
but were of particular
Project.
the
the funding received from,
We gratefully acknowledge
Technology Program.
University of California Appropriate
this bibliography.
The use of appropriate technology to generate
apPropri
using various
This bibliography was initiated with the idea of
for com
The primary technology which is now available
ate technologies.
The uses to which we put the com
piling bibliographies is the computer.
puter were:
pertinent informa
Searching the several computerized databases where
1.
tion was likely to reside.
Downloading that information onto our own minicomputer.
2.
various means.
Processing and sorting the machinereadable data by
3.
Formatting and printing the final results.
4.
to this project are
These appropriate technologies and their applications
what we will now explain.
is
bibliography
our
subject of
The first point to consider is that the
we
study as viewed by the many databases which
not a welldefined area of
the
to
subject headings
In most cases the databases assigned
searched.
phrase "appropriate technology"
documents we,retrieved but rarely was the
identifying phrase and
it
The phrase was used in titles and as an
used.
the phrase was not used a's a subject
Because
abstracts.
used
was
in
located by slow and painstaking manu
index term, references could only be
We used the
indexes, or by computer.
al scanning of citations in printed
term "appropriate tech
In using the computer to search on the
computer.
retrieve citations for
titles, abstracts, etc., we failed to
nology"
in
the
use
but which did not
works which were about appropriate technology
but did not
retrieved citations which used the phrase
also
We
phrase.
in=
out
to
applicable
considered
we
reflect the,same 'subject matter
to retrieve otherwise
Thus we were able, by using the computer,
terests.
above.
difficulttofind items but with the caveats noted
of 'transferring
process
the
"Downloading" is the word used to describe
The
electronically.
computer
another
computer
to
one
from
data
com
another
into
recorded
machinereadable data from one computer are
The second step of our
data.
puter where they reside as machinereadable
that further work could be
project was to retrieve the data in such a way
edit.
items;, i.e., merge them and sort them and
retrieved
the
on
.done
search
our
to ."download"
To accomplish'thisstep we. endeavored
them.
printed
as we usually do, i.e., in
material
retrieve
the
than
rather
the
was
download
to
The program used to enable our minicomputer
form.
TSTE public domain software which runs under
RI' -11.
manipu-
otherwise
Machine-readable data may then be "word- processed" or
Thus the rekeying of data is avoided
by programmers and machines.
lated
data
Downloading of
with its accompanying problems of costs and errors.
The legal-
(NOTE:
awopriate technology.
was the second use of current
Most
concern.
of
matter
ity of downloading machine-readable data is a
the permission of the database producer
copyrighted
and
are
databases
as
DT&LOG)
We checked with system vendors (BRS and
should be obtained.
permission for this
individual databases producers to get their
well
as
particular project.)
results
machine-readable
io
The third phase of our project was to merge the
then
and to order those results and
we obtained from our various searches
to
Asthis project comes
accessible.
index them to make the information
basic
did, and see that two systems of
end we look back at the work we
an
formatting were learned and utilized.
system
UNIX operating
using the
.0ne system was on our campus computers
,
developed by one of our fa-
and special bibliographic organizing programs
minicomputer
11/23
LSI
The second system was our library's'DEC
culty.
the text-editor programs and various
using the RT-11 operating system and
tasks
the
Either of the two systems could accomplish
sorting programs.
of work done on both
The result was in fact a combination
attempted.
we
the
be performed in order for
The prithary task which needed to
systems.
of each record to reside
work was to get the various fields
to
programs
difference
A
cases.
certain
in
long line
on just one line, albeit a
those used on our
used on the campus computer and
programs
between
the
with
deal
could
programs
computer
library's mini. was that the campus
with which we manipulated
whereas the text-editor macros
fields
missing
ex-
be
required all fields to
in
the records for global changes, etc.
Nevertheless, 'the
accurately.
for the changes to be made
places
,pected
least and it was in fact enormously.
experience was fascinating to say the
the campus and libra :'y computer
and useful to find out about
educational
,
capabilities.
downloading.
when
for
wa.ch out
We have also learned a few things to
system which delivers the
dan'be saved by choosing the vendor
time
Much
(.i.e.
tagged
be
Fields
should
ordering.
and
most suitable format
from DIALOG in order to obtain CAB
We were forded to download
labelled.)
field
to supply labels for every
records but the additional effort needed
downloading records which
Savings can also be.realiied by
tedious.
was
bibliography
the
if
i.e.
product;
most closely resemble the finished
is
downloading the reords with abstracts
abstracts,
require
not
does
advance
in
system permits,
Sorting the records, wherever the
wasteful.
of downloading also saves time later.
p
p
The processing was done as follows:
titles came first.
record so that the
Reorder the fields within each
1.
title.
Sort the records alphabetically by'
2..
Number each record.
3.
Word
Key
In
titles through
a
Extract the title fields and put the
U.
Context (KWIC) Indexing program.
author
an
for
alphabetically
sort
and
Extract the author fields
5.
index.
was
The formatting
print the results.
The final phase was to format and
filled and
mini's RUNOFF program which
simply to put the text throUgh our
fast dot-matrix printer with
The printing was done on a
justified lines.
to imbed com-
We learned during this process
variable fonts and spacing.
automatically
changes in the fonts could occur
mands in the text so that
as desired.
informa-
for
THE appropriate technology
As noted earlier the computer is
about how we can do that process-
We have learned a lot
tion processing.
computers.
well as on the campus
ing on our library's computer as
the Bibliography
Key to Format and Abbreviations in
arranged in alpha-
The entries of the following bibliography are
Entries with humbers at the beginning
betical order by title.
Each entry has
of the title are at the front of the list.
Index to the
number which links the KWIC Index and the Author
bibliography.
Each entry
The text of each entry is in all capital letters.
field-identifiers.
has several lower case letters which are
These f,ield,identifiers are defined as follows:
author
a
announcement
aj
abstract
b
catalog number
c
corporate author
ca
series information
ced_
collation
co
descriptors
concept code
e
geographic source
g
institution
i
language
1
accession number,
n
numbers
no
notes
nt
publication year
p
publisher
pb
research
ro
sogrce
total pages
tp
sponsoring agency
x
year of publication
y
for accession number, many
Following the field identifier "n"
parentheses, an abbreviation which
of the records will have, in
Those
which the entry came.
stands for the database from
abbreviations are defined as follows:
&mmonwealth Agricultural Bureaux
CAB
Engineering Index
Th
COMPENDEX
partment of Energy
DOE
Educational Resources Information
ERIC
Center
Enviroline
EVIE
Office
U.S. Government Printing
tGPOM
Monthly Catalog
Information ServiceS in Physics,
INSPEC
Elec,trotechnology, Computers and
Control
Catalog
U.C. Prototype Online
.o
MELVYL
Service
National Technical Information
NTIS
Network
Research Libraries Information
RLIN
Sociological Abstracts
SOCIOLOGICAL ABS
abbreviations
following the database
'In most cases, the numbers
They will'enable you
useful numbers.
in the bibliography are
computerized
items listed in the respective
to go directly to the
useful
thereby find abstracts and other
or printed forms and
information.
1983.
bibliography were completed in May,
The searches for this
material published and/or entered
These searches were limited to
bibliog-
Thus, coverage in this
into the databases since 1977.
1983.
raphy is frcn 1977 through early
L