The State and Urban Publications Collection at Mankato State College contains materials from state and local agencies on urban planning. By 1971, when the collection had grown to the point that its haphazard organization was decreasing its usefulness as a resource tool, the library and the Urban Studies Institute formulated an information…

The first part of this catalog of nonprint materials lists alphabetically available films, filmstrips, audiotapes, and records useful to those in computer science education. Also included in this section is: grade level, running time, whether color or black-and-white, and the rental cost. Part two is a subject index. The final section of the…

The guide lists 2,955 free items, of which 1,336 are new in this edition, relevant to health, physical education, and recreation. Each item is listed under one of the categories, and is provided with information about type of medium, specifications of the product, a brief description of the product, and its cost and distributor. A title index, a…

Over 100 films prepared by the Forest Service are listed in this catalog. Sixty-five general interest films and seven "Smokey the Bear" fire prevention films are available on loan, free of charge, to the public. Twenty-nine Forest Service training films are also listed which are not available for public use except under special…

The outgrowth of a project effort to foster in youth an awareness of the world of work, this catalog contains descriptive annotations and price lists for filmstrips, records, cassettes, microfiche, transparencies, 16 mm films, books, magazines, slides, video tapes, self-instructional devices, and prints. Presented in coded form for easy…

This guide contains lists of publishers of various kinds of instructional materials, textbooks and printed materials; audiovisual instructional materials; atlases, globes, maps, and accessories; tests, testing aids and services; and educational equipment and supplies. Each of these types is listed in a separate section, and each section is…

An index provides media staff, library personnel, and educators with a bibliographic guide to commercially produced educational audio tapes. This annotated computerized data base cites over 18,000 titles, filed under approximately 200 curriculum oriented subject and category headings. The index is divided into three principal sections: 1) subject…

The Education Opinion Inventory was constructed to measure teachers' and principals' (1) knowledge and (2) acceptance of the theoretical foundations of the nongraded school. The items for the Inventory came from a critical analysis of the literature fundamental to the nongraded school movement: (1) individual differences, (2) pupil evaluation and…

An attempt has been made to provide a list of films, tapes, slides, records, etc. which are likely to be of instructional use in elementary schools. A list of the recommending sources, the media indexed by subject and title/author, a producer/distributor index, and an index of subject headings are provided. Technical information, distributor,…

This annual summary provides information about research and development projects which have been conducted under contract to the Manpower Administration. This report differs from previous ones in that it has been expanded to include development projects in addition to the research projects. Projects in progress at the end of the 1971 fiscal year…

This catalog lists and describes regularly scheduled training courses offered by the National Office Training Branch of the Internal Revenue Service. It also describes other courses available to National Office employees. The purpose of the catalog is to help supervisors identify training courses that will meet their employees needs. Employees…

A SERIES OF 40 FILMS WAS DEVELOPED FOR COLLEGE-LEVEL INSTRUCTION IN FOUR ASPECTS OF COMMUNICATION THEORY AND THE EDUCATIONAL MEDIA. THE TOPICS COVERED ARE--(1) THE INFORMATION EXPLOSION, (2) PROCESS OF COMMUNICATION, (3) PERCEPTION AND COMMUNICATION, AND (4) THE TEACHER AND TECHNOLOGY. THIS REPORT DESCRIBED THE CONCEPTS USED IN THE PRODUCTION OF…

This publication contains a compilation of summaries of 1976 state-mandated studies conducted in areas related to education. The individual summaries are categorized according to the subject areas of accountability, alcohol, code revision, collective bargaining, curriculum, early childhood education, energy, ethics, exceptional children,…

The need for and development of the Miller System for filing tapes and corresponding information are discussed. Boston University's Geddes Language Center developed a distributable catalog of source materials that lists holdings by author and title of work within each language division. (SW)

Resources are described for helping parents inform themselves about their disabled child's medical problems. Included are the use of library tools (card catalogs, cross references, periodicals, and indexes), use of library services (interlibrary loans and online searching), and other sources of information such as government sources, associations,…