In four conference presentations newspaper librarians presented information about their photograph storage and retrieval operations. They discussed picture sources, selection and weeding, picture evaluation, picture quality, ways photos are used, filing methods, source books for illustrative material, file subject coding, ways of dealing with…

Designed to fill the need for a continuing series to provide scholarly reviews of the reapidly changing field of librarianship, this book presents critical articles and surveys based on the published literature, research in progress, and developments in libraries of all types. The eleven subject areas covered are: (1) "The Machine and Cataloging"…

Using the skills and knowledge obtained in Office Career Occupations No. 3, the students will continue to develop their abilities in filing, communication, and computation. A basic understanding of profit and loss, the addressing machine, and basic machine transcription will be provided. The 90-hour course also includes application problems for…

A computer software package has been developed to teach and test students on the Rules for Alphabetical Filing of the Association of Records Managers and Administrators (ARMA). The following computer assisted instruction principles were used in developing the program: gaining attention, stating objectives, providing direction, reviewing…

This set of performance objectives and assessment checklists is intended for use with regular office occupations classroom activities. Steps are discussed for implementing these competency-based materials, and a grading system is recommended for assessment. Each of the 20 validated skills, 8 recommended skills, and 1 optional skill are presented…

Designed to enrich and strengthen the students' interest and knowledge of business and the Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA), this curriculum guide provides business instructors with teaching strategies and student learning activities to complement and supplement the existing instructional program. The guide consists of six sections:…

Eighteen units on office duplication practices are presented in this teacher's guide. The unit topics include the following: classroom safety; human relations in the office setting; grooming and hygiene; telephone communications; computing routine math transactions; stencil, fluid, and offset duplication; operating business machines; indexing,…

Coastline Community College has developed a series of guides to assist adults who wish to obtain college credit or advanced standing in evaluating and verifying their non-college learning experiences. This guide lists the competency requirements of three courses within the Administrative Secretary program: Filing, Business Correspondence, and…

This student manual is part of the competency based education curriculum for students training to be a legal secretary (or a legal stenographer, court reporter, or law reporter). The manual contains learning modules in eight areas: (1) occupational information, (2) receptionist duties, (3) clerical duties, (4) bookkeeping duties, (5) filing…

A prevailing concern of leadership development is the extent to which performance-oriented training increases the ability of an individual to define and implement a process to accomplish stated objectives. The systems approach provides an analytic strategy for task decomposition into sequentially, temporally ordered activities without necessarily…

This instructor's guide and student activity packet (together with a slide/tape presentation not available here) comprise a module for the postsecondary office occupations education competency area of filing. Modules for other competency areas are available separately. The purpose stated for the module is to help students become familiar with…

Coastline Community College has developed a series of guides to assist adults who wish to obtain college credit or advanced standing in evaluating and verifying their non-college learning experiences. This guide lists the competency requirements of four courses within the General Office Practice program: Filing, Business Correspondence,…

CATTS is a computerized service providing question-answer exercises from a subject content file for specific courses, building successive lessons from the file based on each student's immediately previous performance. The text of the file may correlate with textbooks, diagrams, workbooks and supplementary material. Student files include subject,…

The student's manual of this set consists of materials for use by individuals enrolled in an extension course in managing dental office records. Addressed in the individual units of the course are the following topics: clinical records, dental insurance, recall systems, inventory control, and financial records. Each unit contains some or all of…

This collection of competency statements deals with the eight skill areas in which entry-level general office workers must have competence. Addressed in the individual sections of the volume are the ability to type, to use good business English, to perform business filing, to utilize business math concepts, to use office machines, to understand…