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Organization of American States, Washington, DC. – 1998
A workshop report provides the structure and content of a school building vulnerability reduction plan for schools in Dominica, determines roles and interactions between school stakeholders, and designs a natural hazard vulnerability reduction program. It provides a profile of the current stock of school buildings in Dominica while also addressing…
Descriptors: Design Requirements, Educational Facilities Design, Educational Facilities Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
Organization of American States, Washington, DC. – 1998
This document outlines the existing conditions of school buildings and their vulnerability to natural hazards on the island of St. Kitts, and makes recommendations on how to better protect them from these hazards. Profiles of the schools are detailed and the roles and responsibilities of the various organizations concerning construction,…
Descriptors: Design Requirements, Educational Facilities Design, Educational Facilities Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
Organization of American States, Washington, DC. – 1998
This document outlines the existing conditions of school buildings and their vulnerability to natural hazards on the islands of Antigua and Barbuda, and makes recommendations on how to better protect them from these hazards. Profiles of the schools are detailed and the roles and responsibilities of the various organizations concerning…
Descriptors: Design Requirements, Educational Facilities Design, Educational Facilities Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
Markey, Karen – 1983
The Subject Access Research Project was initiated by OCLC in August 1979 to study the process of subject searching in the library catalog, with the objective of identifying features for an automated subject retrieval system which would support the present search tactics employed by library users performing manual subject searches at the library…
Descriptors: Design Requirements, Information Retrieval, Interviews, Library Automation
Delrio, Claudio; Ami, Zvi Ben; de Groot, Reuma; Drachmann, Raul; Ilomaki, Liisa – Online Submission, 2008
The aim of this report is, first of all, to present the KP-Lab approach toward stakeholders in the wider framework of European policies. Secondly, the KP-Lab definition of stakeholders and the strategy to address different stakeholders needs, concerns and expectations is presented in the following paragraphs. The second chapter presents concrete…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Evaluation Methods, Stakeholders, Educational Policy
Lawrence, Gary S. – 1982
A national study of users and non-users of public access online catalog systems (OPACs) was undertaken at 29 libraries, representing 15 computer systems, to provide data and interpretations useful to system designers and library administrators. The findings indicate that users have overwhelmingly positive responses to OPACs. Non-users have…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Design Requirements, Library Administration, Library Automation
Johnson, Johanna H. – 1981
Concerned with increasing the accessibility of the collection of the Engineering/Math Sciences (EMS) Library at the University of California at Los Angeles through the use of self guidance systems, this practical study focused on the problem context, general library guides, and library signage in reviewing the literature, and conducted a survey of…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Data Collection, Design Requirements, Higher Education
Dana, Ann S. – 1997
The theory and practice of the instructional design system includes the categories of design, development, utilization, evaluation, and management; instructional designers and teachers need to determine an appropriate balance of structural knowledge and detailed knowledge acquisition. The purpose of this study was to determine what teachers'…
Descriptors: Computer Software Evaluation, Computer System Design, Courseware, Design Requirements
Coyle, Patrick – 1988
This Systems and Procedures Exchange Center (SPEC) flyer/kit addresses some of the needs of Association of Research Libraries (ARL) members regarding library building use and the aesthetics and well-being of the materials and people in the building. The kit draws upon documents gathered as part of a 1986 Quick-SPEC survey that dealt with food and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Aesthetic Values, Behavior Problems, Design Requirements
Wulfsberg, Rolf M.; Petersen, Richard J. – 1979
The physical facilities of 700 colleges and universities of the United States were studied by the National Center for Education Statistics in the fall of 1977. The primary study objectives were to: (1) develop a reliable estimate of what American colleges and universities must spend to make their programs accessible to the mobility impaired, as…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Accessibility (for Disabled), Building Design, Building Plans