The Language Resource Centers (LRC) program provides grants to institutions of higher education to establish, strengthen, and operate resource centers that serve to improve the nation's capacity to teach and learn foreign languages. Eligible applicants are institutions of higher education. Duration of the grant is four years. Center activities…

The author entails a plan for bringing a learning resources center to the school media center, and bringing instructional development to the learning resources center. (Author)

A materials collection can provide indirect experiences that will supplement the direct learning experiences offered by an outdoor education nature center. The Instructional Materials Center at Lorado Taft Field Campus provides such multiple learning experiences as it offers print media as well as slides, films, tapes, and projection and field…

A look at how learning resource centers can aid instructional development and promote innovation in teaching. (AK)

A look at the organizational structure and production services of Tarrant County Junior College's Learning Resources Division. (AK)

Intended for regular and special education administrators (as well as support personnel), the manual is designed to assist regional and local learning resource centers (LRCs) in developing and implementing their programs with a minimum of outside assistance. The document is divided into five major sections representing broad subject areas in which…

The director of the Special Education Instructional Materials Center at the University of Wisconsin explains the general goals of the centers and gives a brief description of the activities of each center. (AA)

A report on the activities of the Dover Educational Television Center, Great Britain. (HB)

The article describes Texas's four vocational instructional materials centers, all located in universities, and the development and dissemination of curriculum materials in distributive education, industrial arts, agriculture, home economics, teaching the disadvantaged, and others. Purchase information for the materials is included. (MF)

Describes the development of an annotated booklist about Arizona, including information on surveying readers to identify "favorite" books, annotating the resulting list of 161 titles, obtaining funding for publication, obtaining permissions, and disseminating and evaluating the booklist, "On Arizona! A Readers' Survey of the Grand…

This general guideline for a Media Production Center generally concentrates on the equipment and personnel needs of a media center supporting the development of Learning Activity Packets for individualized instruction. Appendixes contain lists of specific materials, both print and hardware, to be used by the project. (WCM)

The manual is intended to facilitate the development of instructional materials for handicapped children which are suitable for wide dissemination, and provides guidelines and checklists for planning, producing, and assessing instructional materials. Introductory material includes an evaluation form for the guide, definitions of terms used in the…