Describes the present computer-managed textbook program in Alachua County, Florida. Compares the present procedures for ordering, distributing, and accounting with those that were necessary before the advent of the computer. (Author/WM)

The vocational educational module of the Rhode Island Educational Management Information System is a data base that is an ongoing system that has been designed both to grow and to be modified to meet the needs of local and State administrators in the management of vocational education within Rhode Island. (Author)

Reports on one effort to help teachers utilize their local community resources in the educational programs of the local schools. From a list of over 400 participating business and industrial firms and individuals, teachers receive only those names for which they have immediate curricular need. (Author/WM)

This study attempted to maximize the effectiveness of the teaching force through a successful assignment of teachers by considering the individual needs, competencies, and preferences of teachers and administrative staff, and selected student and curriculum factors. (Author)

Southeast Regional Data Center (SERDAC) has an operational Information Documentation and Control System that provides the documentation and control necessary for SERDAC to implement an organizational data base to support its many applications. (Author)

Discusses the work and planning requisite to the success of an ambitious, developmental, computer-assisted instruction project. (JF)