An index provides media staff, library personnel, and educators with a bibliographic guide to commercially produced educational records. The computer-produced index cites over 22,000 record titles each, with a descriptive statement, filed under a curriculum-oriented subject headings. The index is divided into three principal sections: (1) subject…

This document contains materials used in accessioning information into the MINK (Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, and Kansas) Network Educational Resources Center. The center serves as a centralized source of materials covering a wide range of topics pertinent to teacher education for reference use in the MINK four-state area. The materials located at…

The intent of this handbook is to provide guidelines for tutor-trainers, reading directors, and the community coordinators who need help in organizing programs for training reading tutors. The handbook is divided into three parts. "Reading Directors' Organizational Guidelines" is intended to give direction necessary to form the support…

The constituency research process outlined gives guidelines for establishing committees on resources to screen potential contributors to an institution. The concept, practice, and results of finding, reaching, and "selling" the ten percent of an institution's constituency which can make the difference in dollar support is an "a priori" management…

This publication is the second volume of curriculum resources compiled by the Kalamazoo Nature Center. It contains 5549 resources in the form of books, periodicals, films, filmstrips, maps, slides, tapes, transparencies, to name a few. This resource guide can be used by teachers, librarians, and media specialists in supplementing a secondary…

Six postsecondary institutions currently serve the Spokane area: a private university, two private colleges, one public college, and two community colleges. The two community colleges account for 60 percent of the total headcount enrollment in Spokane County postsecondary institutions. A seventh institution, Washington State University, views the…

This is the third annual Statistical Abstract of Higher Education in North Carolina and was compiled and organized from data provided by each institution to the State Board of Higher Education or through the Higher Education General Information Survey of the U.S. Office of Education. Information is provided in 11 broad areas which are (1) current…

In 1964, John W. Gardner outlined some criteria that should be appied in the selection of universities that would serve as AID contractors. These criteria were: (1) the extent to which the universities had developed their resources in the international field; (2) the caliber of the faculty in the key fields; (3) the extent of interdisciplinary…

Of the three change strategies for educational improvement which are currently being supported with substantial sums of money, only the most recent, research-based development, can bring about real national improvement in educational practice. "Local innovation," although it will always be our best source of new ideas, fails as an effective…

An evaluation of what comprises an effective educational information system, where we now stand with regard to such systems, and how we can improve these systems so that they are usable for educational decision makers and practitioners at all levels. The needs for a multi-level information system, interpersonal communication "a warm and walking…

The need to identify the mode of integration of learning resources on contemporary US campuses grows as institutional expansion becomes a primary organizational concern. The implications drawn in this paper from the culture of the campus to the organization of learning resources is that many of these resources must be drastically decentralized…

In the spring of 1965, West Virginia University called a moratorium on undergraduate enrollment in industrial arts education. This was to provide time for the faculty to review and develop a new approach to this program. An interdisciplinary conference was held in an attempt to meet this goal. It was designed to determine the university's function…

The National Information Center for Educational Media (NICEM) at the University of Southern California, using a computer to search a data bank of over 70,000 titles of non-book materials, has compiled a motion picture film catalog. First, the films are listed by title under one of the subheadings of 26 subjects. Then an alphabetical title section…

This bulletin contains brief summaries from the full report, "Federal Support to Universities, Colleges, and Selected Nonprofit Institutions, Fiscal Year 1973," obtainable from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402. Data tables showing trends in federal obligations to universities and colleges…

This book represents a sharing on the part of several counselors working in elementary schools in Pinellas County, Florida. It describes some of the favorite group activities as selected by counselors. Most of the activities can be used with class-size groups; several are designed for smaller groups of children. These suggestions, however, are in…