For the thirty-ninth time, the Research and Theory Division of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) is sponsoring the publication of these Proceedings. Papers published in this volume were presented at the annual AECT Convention in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Proceedings of AECT's Convention are published in two volumes.…

Twenty scholarly papers and fifteen abstracts comprise the content of the sixteenth annual Brick and Click Libraries Conference, held annually at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, Missouri. The proceedings, authored by academic librarians and presented at the symposium, portray the contemporary and future face of librarianship. The…

Describes the first national conference of the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) held in Louisville, Kentucky, September 25-28, 1980. The historical development of the conference as well as its goals, program, proceedings, and exhibits are covered. (BK)

The 1976 International Association of School Librarianship conference focused on crucial issues in school library development and professional education. Complete texts of the keynote address, Crucial Issues in School Library Development and Professional Education by Frances Henne, and the following presentations are included: The School…

Preprints of papers to be presented at the 25th annual Audio-Visual Aids Conference are collected along with the conference program. Papers include official messages, a review of the conference's history, and presentations on photography in education, using school broadcasts, flexibility in the use of television, the "communications…

Stressing the theme of resourcefulness on the part of Australian school librarians and media specialists, this volume contains papers and addresses on learning through technology, the Australian school catalogue information service, the curriculum development centre in Canberra, women and the curriculum, Australian resource utilization, directions…

This report of a conference for school administrators and media staff provides the text of the keynote address presented by Evelyn Daniel, as well as reports from small group sessions on the following topics: (1) policy making and budget setting; (2) centralized technical processing or commercially available technical services; (3) cable…

In March of 1974, a conference was held to advise the Ontario Educational Communications Authority (OECA) on the nature of future global problems (energy use, population growth, economic and technological expansion). Participants were asked to examine conflicting interpretations of these problems and the assumptions on which the viewpoints are…

This conference report contains the texts of speeches delivered at a December, 1975 conference on Texas learning resource programs. Complete transcripts are provided for speeches on: (1) district and school site media programs; (2) guidelines for developing learning resource centers; (3) standards for learning resource programs; (4) the role of…

Summaries and edited transcriptions document the major content areas addressed by the institute, which exposed state teams to innovative continuing education concepts and methodologies to apply in state planning for continuing education through a week-long workshop and postworkshop, follow-up meetings and communication, consultation, document…

Cooperation among institutions, ways of facilitating exchanges of specialists and experience, and the joint development of learning resources were examined in a meeting of leaders from 31 regional training institutions from all world regions. Part of UNESCO's long-term concern with the training of media professionals, the meeting opened with a…

This document reports the activities of a leadership workshop attended by 43 persons representing library and media personnel at all educational levels for the states of Washington, Oregon, Alaska, Idaho, and Montana. The purpose of the workshop was to identify individual leadership styles, identify and practice group process skills, review and…

Included in this document are a conference program, a conference public relations (P.R.) handbook, an evaluation form, and notes outlining discussions and speeches from the conference. Topics covered include getting the most out of the conference; P.R. from the personal point of view; competition in education P.R.; P.R. within the school and the…

The papers presented at this conference focus on instructional technology in community/junior colleges. The keynote speaker, F. Elkins, addresses the problem of involving faculty in a Learning Resources Program--teaching faculty to utilize available media materials and to develop their own materials, in order to provide students with alternate…

As part of an ongoing effort to prepare librarians and media specialists for work in a multi-ethnic society, the School of Library Service at Atlanta University sponsored a conference in April of 1978 on library programs and materials relating to the life styles, cultures, and histories of Native American, African American, Hispanic American, and…