The 49th Annual Meeting of the National Association of Schools of Music was held in Denver, Colorado in 1973. These proceedings contain the reports of the various commissions and committees (graduate, undergraduate, junior college, library, and president). The three addresses to the general session and the papers presented at the regional meetings…

The Northeast Academic Science Information Center (NASIC), a program of the New England Board of Higher Education which was initially funded by the National Science Foundation, represents an attempt to apply on a regional basis the concept of brokerage or wholesaling to the provision of computer-based information services. The center expects to be…

STITE (Scientific and Technical Information Transfer for Education) is basically a system to interface between science information and the science learner. As such STITE acts as a link between STIC (Science and Technology Information Centers) and LIS (Learning Information Systems). After an introduction to the goals and objectives of the ongoing…

To cause a patient to relate personally to literature is the goal of bibliotherapy, but just how this goal is attained is one of the most significant differences between bibliotherapy and other forms of group therapy. Agnews State Hospital has conducted bibliotherapy for three years as a rehabilitation service. During July 1970-June 1971, a total…

This paper describes an alternative to current information dissemination systems (letter journals), computerized information systems, and clearinghouse operations) that would establish a network of depositories at universities and research organizations. The essence of the approach is to provide convenient access to working papers and technical…

A plan for the integration of the audiovisual and library services of the community college under a single administrative unit, the learning resources center (LRC), is presented. The authors maintain that such a merger would be in the best interests of faculty and students, helping them to provide and obtain quality individualized education. In…

The material presented within this revised and updated annotated bibliography will be useful to administrators who are interested in becoming familiar with the career education concept and in attempting to integrate it into the existing school curricula. Listings are grouped under eight main headings: Models and Guidelines; Elementary Level,…

An analysis of health care in Venezuela indicates that if the health of the Venezuelan population is to be maintained and improved then there must be undertaken a major effort to develop continuing educational programs for physicians. Venezuelan undergraduate medical education is largely didactic, with little exposure to patient care;…

The key issues of the EDUCOM 1971 Spring Conference were the development of new mechanisms to supply computing to colleges and of the means to deliver this computing at lower cost. In the keynote address the history of computing in higher education was reviewed, emphasizing the changes caused by the dwindling manufacturer discounts, the…

In order to move information concerning vocational and technical education from the library into the hands of practitioners, the Tennessee Research Coordinating Unit (RCU) in cooperation with the State Division of Vocational-Technical Education decided to develop a system of information retrieval and dissemination. Such a system has been developed…

The Reader Development Program of The Free Library of Philadelphia makes available audio-visual materials designed to aid under-educated adults and young adults in overcoming the educational, cultural and economic deficiencies in their lives. These materials are loaned for a week at a time to instructors, tutors, reading specialists, social…

Subtitled "A 'Mixed Bag' of Information on American Culture of the 1920's and 1930's," the resource guide was prepared by a librarian to stimulate student interest in studying this period in United States History and to provide the social studies teacher with suggestions for student research. Introductory material encourages students to approach a…

The Parent/Child Toy-Library Program is described and a report is given of its evaluation. The program is a 10-week course for parents of three- and four year-old children, an educational Toy Library for the parents, and a training program for the teacher-librarians who will teach the course and operate the library. Two toys were rejected on the…

Resource information and ideas for curriculum programs related to the study of the environment are presented in this resource guide for elementary and secondary teachers. Activities in the outdoors and action programs representative of recent district and county activities in Alameda County, California, are discussed. A list of resources,…

This is the fifth report describing notable reading projects funded under Title Two of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The project descriptions were supplied by ESEA Title Two coordinators and media supervisors in the State departments of education for Arkansas, California, Georgia, Guam, Maryland, Michigan, New Hampshire, New York,…