One of a series of manuals developed by the Home and Community-Based Career Education Project, the publication presents the processes involved in reviewing and compiling information about educational, training, and supportive resources for career-related materials for adults. Principal focus is on materials created by the project's information…

A learning center is one area of a classroom that contains a collection of programmed activities and materials which can be used either to teach, reinforce, or enrich a skill or concept, or to provide information. Learning centers are a tool to individualization and can be of types: (1) a skill learning center or (2) an information learning…

The publication presents both a shelf collection list and a series of annotated bibliographies on selected topics in the collection of the resource center of the Education Development Center's home- and community-based career education project (one of the National Institute of Education's four career education models). It is intended as a guide…

For media center volunteers or inexperienced technicians, a workshop training guide provides reference and assistance in everyday problems and situations that arise in an instructional material center (IMC). Two five-hour days of instruction and participation, using the guide, are suggested for workshops. Step-by-step processing of book materials,…

This brochure contains guidelines concerning the use of the master control panel of the language laboratory at the University of Hawaii. Three sections of guidelines are provided: (1) master control panel including teacher headset functions and student booth functions, (2) "things to know"--including the switch functions, instant communication…

The library college concept is a teaching method which differs from traditional methods in that librarians and faculty work more closely together in carrying out course objectives and tend toward a convergence in role or a symbiotic relationship. In the spring of 1967 an upperclass course in library materials was taught using this method at a…

Developed along with a tape-slide package, the guide covers evaluation of special educational programs. Robert McIntyre discusses evaluation for decision making; Victor Baldwin considers sources of help and how to use them; and Helmut Hofmann treats objectives as guidelines for action, data collection, and budget planning and evaluation. Wesley…

A project in library science, funded under Title IIb of the Higher Education Act, approved the training of 40 participants (8 teams) selected from 11 communities in Colorado, Wyoming, and the Southwest having a high Spanish-surname population. Teams included a practicing school or public librarian, a Spanish-surnamed community leader, a…

This guide is a recapitulation and refinement of the substantive content of a one-and-a-half day course which was given before three groups of Federal scientists and engineers during the Fall of 1967. The course was developed under the sponsorship of the Panel on Education and Training of the Committee on Scientific and Technical Information…

Objectives of this program are to provide health services, foster emotional development, plan for educational growth as a developmental and purposeful process, and encourage parent participation. Children receive medical and dental examinations and care. Social workers serve as liaisons between school, home, and community for recruitment and…

All 59 documents published by the Educational Resources Information Center on Educational Media and Technology (ERIC/EM) are abstracted in this document. The abstracts are the same as those which appeared in Research in Education (RIE), ERIC's monthly catalog. They are arranged alphabetically by author. With only two exceptions (journal articles…

This research was conducted in a rural community college and examines two methods for extending community services and the response of the community to the establishment of a Community Resource Center. The basic questions asked in this study are threefold: (1) What strategies can be effectively used by a rural community college in extending its…

In the fall of 1973, questionnaires concerning their professional relationships and goals were sent to 456 school media specialists in the southeastern United States. Responses were received from 66% of those surveyed. The major conclusions derived from the survey were the following: (1) there is a trend toward central locations for school media…

This study was commissioned to delineate the role of resource and bibliographic centers in the national network of library and information services proposed by the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science. As background material, an overview of existing centers was constructed from earlier interlibrary loan studies; small surveys…

A systems approach has been used to assess the needs of the education process and the purposes and roles of the members of the learning community. Roles have been interfaced and overlapped in the learning community. How the components of the model influence and change each other has been evaluated. Premises, assumptions, and constraints have been…