This collection contains data from a 1976 survey on organization, staffing, and operation of the gifts and exchange functions of member libraries of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and 26 primary source documents. Source documents in the kit include: (1) annual reports from Columbia University, University of North Carolina, and Ohio…

One section of a spring 1979 Systems and Procedures Exchange Center (SPEC) survey on communication in Association of Research Libraries (ARL) institutions examined how members exchange information with external groups including the university administration, faculty, users, support groups, other libraries, and the profession in general. According…

Directed to the heads of executive departments and establishments, this circular establishes policy for the management of federal information resources. Procedural and analytic guidelines for implemented aspects of these policies are included as appendices. The policies apply to the information activities of all agencies of the executive branch of…

Journal articles, books, monographs, research papers, and lecture-discussion papers on educational planning covering the period from 1970 to mid 1977 are cited. Some outstanding literature not belonging to this period is also cited. The first section lists existing bibliographies in educational planning. Concept and general theory and methodology…

Elementary school counselling is in need of a new image. The elementary school counsellor should have a thorough understanding of the many problem areas in which he will be involved. Many aspects of school functioning, teacher behavior as it pertains to classroom management, and individual psychology are related to the entire question of…

The framework for public school social workers offered in this article is based on the systems approach. The ideas presented might also be useful to social workers in general, and to secondary school social workers in particular. The article deals with the idea of a boundary, which is a line forming a circle around selected variables.…

This annotated bibliography cites 223 articles related to behavioral assessment reported in 18 professional journals between January 1960 and Spring 1976. A summary and a reference grouping of the articles are included to allow for identification of articles related to (1) electromechanical devices used in identification, measurement, and storage…

The comprehensive evaluation of the effects and results of the federal program implementing Title I of the Library Services and Construction Act (LSCA) described in this summary report found that, in general, the program has contributed significantly to the development and provision of public library services. However, public libraries are…

Problems of developing countries that could be addressed with studies of time use are identified and associated methodological issues are discussed. Time use studies investigate how individuals allocate time among various activities. Such studies have revealed sex and age differences in time spent at work among adults and children of various…

The purpose of this guide is to suggest ways and means for initiating and sustaining a lasting and mutually rewarding partnership between vocational education and Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) youth programs. These suggestions were based on observations of over 100 programs throughout the United States judged to contain examples…

The increased complexity of the work place and the technology for use in storing and dispensing career and labor market information led to the development of this monograph. Based on the problems and solutions identified through a current literature search and national symposium, this monograph contains (1) a framework for the establishment or…

THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY CONTAINS 615 SELECTED ENTRIES OF ARTICLES AND BOOKS IN THE FIELD OF ARABIC LANGUAGE STUDIES PUBLISHED BETWEEN 1960 AND 1967. THE MATERIALS LISTED ARE WRITTEN IN EUROPEAN LANGUAGES AS WELL AS IN ARABIC, AND INCLUDE WORKS ON THEORETICAL AND APPLIED LINGUISTICS AND RELEVANT PHILOLOGICAL STUDIES. ENTRIES HAVE BEEN ARRANGED BY MAJOR…

IN DEVELOPING A COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING METHOD FOR DETERMINING SPACE REQUIREMENTS AND UTILIZATION RATES, IT IS NECESSARY TO OBTAIN DATA PERTAINING TO THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS USING THE FACILITIES. TO AID THE PUBLIC HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS OF PENNSYLVANIA IN DETERMINING ENROLLMENTS, THE STATE COMMISSION ON ACADEMIC FACILITIES PREPARED THIS…

One of a series of the EDSP (Educational Dissemination Studies Program) interrelated studies, this report describes the content of the ERIC database for five equity groups including the physically and mentally handicapped, Blacks, Hispanics, and women; and addresses the question of how much can be learned if the analysis is confined to examination…

A methodology to describe current-value human resources accounting (HRA) was developed to aid management in decision making and provide information about the effects of organizational policies and practices on the value of the organizations' human resources. A two-phase activity was designed to investigate the nature of the relationship between…