American Education has suffered from its inability to communicate and gain wide adoption of educational improvements. Since the National Institute of Education (NIE) will be judged in terms of the degree to which educational practice is improved, it must assume responsibility for the implementation of new findings. Thus, NIE must conduct a…

A summary of a two-day conference held in September, 1973 is presented. The meeting was convened by the Planning and Policy Analysis Unit of the National Institute of Education (NIE); its purpose was to bring NIE staff together with developers, publishers, attorneys, and educators to develop input for a position paper on dissemination and…

Using four types of counseling for career development, this report describes current vocational counseling programs. The first type of counseling focuses on information and clarification of issues. Innovations within this context have centered on: improving information acquisition, retrieval, and interpretation; and varying the format in which…

The history, goals, organization and achievements of the Federal Library Committee (FLC) are examined in this graduate paper. A brief initial section relates the history of the Committee from the first recognition of its necessity through its planning, official creation and establishment of responsibilities, organization and funding. The body of…

The second conference on Federal Information Resources continued the discussion, begun in 1970, between the Federal library and information community and the research library community. Although each had its particular mission and problems, there is agreement that some problems are common to the two groups and that, in at least some instances, the…

In response to statistics indicating the extent of drug abuse in the United States, a variety of public and private agencies have attempted to inform the mass public regarding the dangers involved in illicit drug abuse. However, there has been little examination of the target audiences themselves so that their responses might be employed as a…

Since February 1971 the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, has been running the ERIC data base mainly for SDI purposes. The implementation of the data base into the generalized search system, ABACUS, is described. One hundred and fifty-eight users received SDI service at present, 99 from governmental and educational institutions, 23 from…

This compilation of ERIC abstracts dealing with the arts and the humanities is the first in a series that identifies research and instructional materials in selected occupational clusters. Approximately 240 documents were identified by means of computer searches of "Research in Education" from 1967 to December 1972. Instructions on how…

To determine the utilization and dissemination of materials produced by the Curriculum Coordinating Unit (CCU) and the Mississippi Research Coordinating Unit, survey instruments were mailed to vocational directors and secondary and post-secondary teachers of trade and industrial, business and office, distribution and marketing, and technical…

An investigation was conducted to assess the effect of enterprise dominance on selected aspects of the infrastructure of agriculture. The hypothesis was that dominance of a particular type of farming in an area is signified by a set of cultural and social values that dispose the agencies serving farmers and the farmers themselves to favor…

Individual document evaluation profiles are reported in a three-page display for each of the 146 documents in the sample of NCEC information analysis products. The three pages are: (1) Title Page and Descriptive Data Report, (2) Reader (on 58 products) and Non-Reader Evaluation Data for: A. Practical Guidance Papers and Reviews, and B.…

Dealing with the organization and activities of one section of the International Biological Programme (IBP), the Conservation Section (CT - Conservation of Terrestrial Communities), this handbook provides an overview of one scientific effort within the worldwide conservation movement. Requirements for a World Conservation Program are described to…

Explored in this special issue of "Design Quarterly" are some of the existing data systems which describe, in visual terms, various urban entities: transportation systems, roadways, public buildings, land patterns, historical structures, as well as some new methods for developing physical information that will be widely used in the future. Through…

A survey of development and information practices in alternative schools in New England revealed that staffs draw heavily from human resources within their local communities to initiate and sustain school operations; as the schools mature, staffs rely more on each other for new information about education. (Author/SJL)

One hundred sixty-four subjects (elementary school teachers and graduate students) were told different stories about a fictitious student which varied in reliability and amount of information. Results indicated that the subjects considered the reliability of the information and revised their decisions accordingly. (Author/MV)