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Improving Collaborative School-Agency Transition Planning: A Statewide DBMS Approach.
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Peterson, Randolph L.; Roessler, Richard T. – Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation, 1997
Describes the development and components of a referral database management system developed by the Arkansas Transition Project. The system enables individualized-education-plan team members to refer students with disabilities directly to adult agencies and to receive a monitoring report describing the agency response to the referral. The system is…
Descriptors: Adults, Agency Cooperation, Community Information Services, Coordination
Tracking and Treating Mobile Populations. The TB Net System. Migrant Clinicians Network Monograph Series. = El Sistema de Red para la TB.
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Migrant Clinicians Network, Inc., Austin, TX. – 1998
A comprehensive tracking and referral network that helps provide continuity of care for mobile populations with active tuberculosis (TB) or TB infection is considered essential for effective treatment of TB. However, the interstate referral system that exists between state health departments has been highly inefficient for serving migrant…
Descriptors: Communicable Diseases, Confidentiality, Databases, Foreign Countries
Using the Microcomputer to Match Special Education Teacher Needs with Volunteer Interests.
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Krupicka, William M.; Fimian, Michael J. – Journal of Special Education Technology, 1987
Using "Multimate On-File" on an IBM-PC microcomputer, a system was developed to help local and district school personnel match identified special education classroom needs with volunteer resources. The user-friendly "index card" software searches, sorts, and retrieves records and has features that can be customized to suit…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Database Management Systems, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
The Automated Reference Desk.
Jacobson, Nancy C.; And Others – American Libraries, 1984
Describes three ways in which libraries use computers to enhance reference services: "Answers," the community information and referral service at Memorial Hall Library, Andover, Massachusetts; the Hot Topics File at State University of New York/Oswego, Penfield Library; and features of RLIN and WLN databases which make them valuable…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Community Information Services, Computer Oriented Programs, Databases
Special Section: The USMARC Community Information Format.
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Lutz, Marilyn; And Others – Information Technology and Libraries, 1992
Five papers discuss topics related to the USMARC Community Information Format (CIF), including using CIF to create a public service resource network; development of a CIF-based database of materials relating to multicultural and differently-abled populations; background on CIF; development of an information and referral database; and CIF and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Community Information Services, Cultural Differences, Databases
Job Placement Program. Final Report 1983-84.
Hopatcong Borough School District, NJ. – 1984
The Job Placement Program was designed to provide counseling and job placement assistance to work-bound high school seniors as well as information on employment opportunities to all students, whether work or college bound. During the project, members of the senior class at Hopatcong High School in Hopatcong, New Jersey, were surveyed in order to…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Databases, Employment Opportunities, High School Seniors