A series of interviews of education professionals was conducted in 12 regions of Scotland to gather information on the resource provisions made by education authorities, and to examine the extent of resource centers in the schools. This report details the range of teachers' centers, resource centers, resource collections, and equipment banks…

Rules and guidelines are provided for subject indexing in the ERIC system. The principle of "subject access" is discussed with particular reference to "coordinate indexing," which involves designating subject content by unit terms (or tags) that may be put together or "coordinated" for subsequent retrieval. The nature…

The database contents, search features, and costs of two services offered by UTLAS (University of Toronto Library Automation Systems) are compared to determine which of the two should be used for interlibrary loan (ILL) processing at Concordia University. A review of studies of CATSS (Catalogue Support System) is provided, as well as a description…

Twelve issues of Library Journal, randomly selected every other year from 1958 to 1980, were analyzed under the headings of general data, articles, text departments, book review sections, and advertisements to determine any changes such as scope, emphasis, and audience. Findings included increases in the number of pages per year during 1958 to…

This study reviews the literature on public school administration and on decentralization to establish the groundwork for an analysis of the administration of a decentralized school system and its media services, discusses some of the confusion in the centralization vs. decentralization debate, and presents a heuristic study of the administration…

Online bibliographic searching provides an alternative to the traditional manual literature search to access the already large and rapidly growing literature on agriculture. The advantages of online searching over manual searching are greater speed, increased accuracy, and the capability of searching for any combination of topics at once. The…

A stratified random sample of educators from the 1,827 schools in Florida with one or more full-time media specialists was surveyed in order to determine which of the 62 competencies for media specialists proposed by the Florida Department of Education Council on Teacher Education were considered essential. Respondents were sent an initial…

This study to identify the verbal behaviors of librarians and library users that facilitate or impede information exchange in presearch interviews for computer-based literature searches was part of a larger research project that gathered data on 80 presearch interviews in seven medical libraries. The project also sought (1) to identify nonverbal…

This study to identify the nonverbal behaviors of librarians and library users that facilitate or impede information exchange in presearch interviews for computer-based literature searches was part of a larger research project that gathered data on 80 presearch interviews in seven medical libraries. The project also sought (1) to identify verbal…

Based on a survey of individuals responsible for Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Title IV-B evaluations at the local level and an examination of IV-B applications, this handbook has been prepared to provide assistance to New York school districts and nonprofit private schools in the coordination and evaluation of school library and…

This publication is the second of a three volume set summarizing the Energy Advisory Service operated by the New York Institute of Technology. This volume presents: (1) Thesaurus of Descriptors for the Vertical File System; (2) Periodical List; (3) Monthly Selected Acquisitions List for 1977; (4) Structure of NYIT Energy Referral Service Roster.…

The project described resulted in the development of a college course designed to acquaint students with some basic learning theories and principles and their application as they apply to reading, listening, and viewing educational media materials. Objectives, course outline, methods, bibliography, basic requirements, and evaluation procedures are…

Works pertinent to the study of journalism in the black community are listed in this bibliography. The works are divided into six sections: selected general reference works dealing with black studies, selected black periodicals, books, articles, doctoral dissertations, and masters' theses. Two additional sections list selected United States…

Designed to present a better understanding of the government's system of printing and distributing information and to highlight problems, alternatives, and important policy questions, this report synthesizes 13 weeks of the Ad Hoc Advisory Committee hearings on six topics: (1) Administration of policy--who should establish and administer policy in…