The Multnomah County Intermediate Education District, located in Portland, Oregon, uses a computerized system to meet the catalog, circulation control, and management needs of its regional film library. The system's programs serve the four functions of: 1) creating and maintaining a film file; 2) developing a catalog; 3) booking film requests on a…

In a presentation at a symposium on educational media for teaching the deaf (1974), the author describes the development of media facilities and use of a coordinated media systems approach to teaching language and reading at the Wyoming School for the Deaf. (LS)

The annotated bibliography lists 33, 16 millimeter films previewed and/or used by the training staff of the Oregon Rehabilitation Research and Training Center in Mental Retardation. Many of the films describe current treatment strategies, programs, attitudes, concepts, or theories related to the habilitation of the retarded. In Section A, a…

Described are the functions of the Captioned Films for the Deaf program, a free loan service of subtitled motion pictures similar in nature to the free loan service of Talking Books for the Blind. (SBH)

Because the National Archives did not have the capacity to manage the volume of films produced by government agencies in recent decades, in 1969 the National Audiovisual Center was created. Its function is to act as a distributor on behalf of federal agencies and to provide information on all federally produced audiovisual titles. The Center is…

Provides a comprehensive discussion on the Stichting Film en Wetenschap, SFW (Foundation for Film and Science), in Utrecht. Various aspects of the use of audio-visual aids in university teaching are looked at in detail. (Editor/RK)

The history of the Television Center is presented, and its wide range of current activities are outlined. (LS)

In describing this media management system, which currently serves 84 public schools (K-12) in four rural counties east of Sacramento, this report suggests that the computer is a practical solution for film libraries trying to keep pace with increased use while not reducing their expenditures for purchasing and repairing film stock. The major…

These appendixes contain detailed information about the existing audiovisual material exchanges which served as the basis for the analysis contained in the companion report. Descriptions of the objectives, structure, financing and services of the following national and international organizations are included: (1) Educational Resources Information…

This final report reviews the ESEA Title III project which Evanston Township High School used to prepare self-instructional materials on film, audio tape, and video tape for use by students during independent study time. It lists the specific objectives of the project as being to: 1) determine the effectiveness of materials when used by other…

This is the final report of the Religion-Social Studies Curriculum Project in Florida. The committee: 1) surveyed the prospects and propriety for the academic study of religion in public education; 2) prepared and tested innovative instructional materials for the study of religion in secondary school social studies; 3) conducted two teacher…

Project Reach, a Federally funded two-year program at the University of Notre Dame, studied three methods of increasing the scope and effectiveness of a local adult basic education (ABE) program in St. Joseph County, Indiana. The methods were: (1) a paraprofessional training program for six former ABE students in still photography, color film…

Included in this volume are the reports dealing with the effective use of audiovisual media in foreign language instruction and developed by the working committees of the sixteenth annual Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. Six individuals prepared the media descriptions and selected the demonstrations described in the…

As visual education departments are very recent additions educational systems, their place in educational institutions is not very well defined. It is desirable as early as possible: (1) to find out what the existing practices are, (2) to institute comparisons among them, and (3) to use these as furnishing clues for establishing the most desirable…