Career pathways aligned with regional labor markets are foundational structures put in place to ensure that youth are best positioned for economic advancement. While it is not difficult to describe an aligned pathway (also called a program of study) at a high level, actually designing a pathway with all of the required details is challenging. The…

This syllabus for a course on community organizations and information transfer provides outlines for these topics: (1) a review of research on community development; (2) identification of organizations in relation to their information environment; (3) information seeking and use behavior of organizations; (4) information seeking and use behavior…

A catalog has been prepared as a guide to survival in Rockford, Illinois. Designed to acquaint both newcomers and long-term residents of Rockford with community resources, services, and agencies, it covers crisis situations, discrimination and civil rights, education, employment, family problems, having fun, housing, medical services, money, and…

A guide to planning information and referral (I&R) services as an integral part of public library services is given. The guidelines cover: (1) the importance of support by the library board and staff; (2) the assessment of objectives, clientele, information needs, and sources of information; (3) making decisions as to the type and amount of…

Guidelines to help ERIC clearinghouses reach lay persons and inform them of the resources available through the ERIC information network are provided. The guidelines were developed following on-site interviews with persons who have expertise in information dissemination and/or who are actively involved in providing information to citizens involved…

Guidelines to help ERIC microfiche collection holders acquaint lay persons in their community with the resources available through the ERIC information network are provided. The guidelines were developed following on-site interviews with persons who have expertise in information dissemination and/or who are actively involved in providing…

Discusses the importance for information managers of demonstrating the value of information services to the organization and identifies appropriate techniques for performance evaluation and product-oriented cost-benefit analysis. Ten questions developed to provide an agenda for demonstrating information service value are listed. (MES)

Suggestions for the preparation and use of database guide sheets (idiot sheets) highlights when to make an idiot sheet; steps in preparation (define suitable format, gather pertinent information); production; adding notations to vendor-supplied guide sheets; and points to remember. Examples of DIALOG and homemade guide sheets are included. (EJS)

These guidelines are intended for the growing number of information services which use, or plan to use, a multilingual thesaurus. The purpose is to describe the various tasks involved in constructing and developing multilingual thesauri, and where possible, to recommend standard practices. The scope is restricted to a consideration of the problems…

Capacity building for dissemination in a State requires the development of a completely responsive linkage system. The State Department of Education (SDE) capacity building effort should focus on people delivering kinds of service, not kinds of information. The service will depend on ready and immediate access to information, but the humanizing…

Discusses paragraph qualification, a search strategy used to retrieve information from computerized databases. Positive and negative paragraph qualification, after-the-fact qualification, multifile searching, and free text searching are described, using examples from the Bibliographic Retrieval Services (BRS)/Search System. (EJS)

Describes a technique for editing and formatting online database searches which provides the requestor/user with a clean finished and more readily understandable product. (CWM)

This document contains guidelines for social workers and other resource persons who are assisting self-help groups. It begins by defining the purpose of the resource person as meeting with group members on a consistent basis to provide information about available resources, offer suggestions and advice when appropriate, answer questions, and offer…

This article discusses the issues that confront network users and systems operators when they explore and adapt their professional communications activities to electronic communication. (Electronic networking here refers to the use of the telephone and the computer to facilitate communication between or among professional groups in a variety of…

ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) was the first attempt to develop a systematic way of collecting, storing, organizing, disseminating, and analysing information in the field of education. ERIC operates at four levels. At the top is the governmental level office, central ERIC, which supervises the ERIC Processing and Reference…