Provides guidelines for designing television screen displays, including format (material on one screen - no scrolling, screen readable, variety in layout, eye movement considered) and visual imagery (organization consistent with message, pictures added to enhance image, movement/animation used with discretion, and others). Also provides rationale…

Examines ten factors that people selecting and using computers in the classroom should consider if the system is to be most effectively utilized as a teaching tool. Topics include personnel, materials, services, and equipment. (DC)

Presents a general introduction to microprocessors and microcomputers. Guidelines for purchasing software and hardware are intended to familiarize potential buyers with the current equipment on the market and the terminology in use. (SA)

Many institutional researchers will find that the microcomputer leads to greater efficiency in everything that they do, especially in the two most critical elements of their jobs: thinking and communicating. (Author/MLW)

Noting advantages of providing Individual Computerized Benefits Statements (ICBS) to communicate benefits programs to employees (a technique used extensively in industry), the author outlines procedural considerations to be taken into account before undertaking the project. (Editor/JT)

The planning for, design, and implementation of information management systems in colleges and universities is approaching a state of adolescence as a science. Because rules cannot be devised with sufficient scope and depth to cover all institutional and systems contingencies, the necessary activities remain somewhere between magic and art. At…

Suggests guidelines to help libraries formalize their electronic reference services. Covers the following issues: administration/management (library division/department, library administration, campus administration, academic departments); services; primary clientele; personnel; infrastructure/facilities; finances; and evaluation. (AEF)