A brief description is provided of the composition of the collection of materials on Adult Learning Services held by the Study of Adult Education in the New York State Education Department, and a list of the subject headings used for its book and vertical file collections. The alphabetically ordered list of approximately 350 terms used to index…

In a cooperative program with Defense Documentation Center Headquarters, Sylvania arranged for procurement of 70,000 unclassified-unlimited documents without DDC Form I cards and 30,000 unclassified-limited and classified documents with Form I's. This was done in order to overcome effects of an in-house documents inventory/selective destruction…

This booklet defines the ERIC system and gives directions on the use of "Research in Education." It also tells about the Eric Document Reproduction Service (EDRS), its use, and its products. In addition, it tells what types of materials ERIC Clearinghouses process. A list of the 19 Clearinghouses, with a description of their specific interests and…

The National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) information services are described and examined from the viewpoints of "networks and networking"; the genesis, growth and functions of "Information Analysis Centres"; the "invisible college"; and the "gatekeeper" concept. Within the description, a…

This index provides access to the combined collections of some 400 oral history centers which house recordings or transcripts of interviews of more than 2,700 persons. The index is arranged in two parts: a name and subject index, and a list of American and foreign oral history centers. Information that applies to all the interviews in a collection…

This report represents the record of project activity which has not already been detailed in the First Milestone Report of October 1974 and the second milestone project, "Exploring Teachers' Centers." The National Institute of Education Group on School Capacity for Problem Solving (GSCPS) has conducted a survey to study grass roots teachers'…

Prepared for educators interested in correspondence, broadcasting, and other media, this newsletter summarizes recent events in extension education programs around the world. This issue contains: (1) a cost analysis of duplication processes; (2) notices for several on-going international projects; (3) an article on educational reforms in Peru; (4)…

At the March 7, 1973, Association of Scientific Dissemination of Information Centers meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a panel discussion on cost elements and charge bases in information centers was held. The panel was composed of representatives of seven information centers which process machine-readable bibliographic data bases and provide…

Educational Information Centers are defined as those encompassing a broad range of search, retrieval, and dissemination activities aimed at providing both increased and more effective communication of results of research and development in the educational field to local educational decision makers and practitioners. Evaluation issues are…

This report evaluates the engineering information services provided by the University of Calgary since implementation of the COMPENDEX (tape service of Engineering Index, Inc.) service using the IBM TEXT-PAC system. Evaluation was made by a survey of the users of the Current Information Selection (CIS) service, the interaction between the system…

The discussion of the various approaches being taken to education in information science includes the development of specific definitions of "information,""information system" and "information science" which serve to rationalize these approaches. The result is a common core of interest to which the variety of…

UNISTAR (User Network for Information Storage, Transfer, Acquisition and Retrieval) represents a management system for scientific and technological information under the executive branch of the United States Government and a training exercise in the systems approach. A summary of the salient points of this study indicates that: a national policy…

A two-fold solution to the cost information deficiency problem is proposed. A formal managerial cost accounting system is designed expressly for the two information services of retrospective search and selective dissemination. The system was employed during a trial period to test its effectiveness in a technical information center. Once…

Volume II of a survey of 29 selected information centers that use computers to search the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) data base in batch mode consists solely of printed materials obtained from twelve information centers. These materials include such items as system descriptions, input forms, search evaluation forms, promotional…

The information retrieval demonstration and research project was designed to demonstrate the computer terminal system of information retrieval from a central computer. Specifically, the system concentrated on computer searching of the ERIC system. The demonstrations took place by locating nine terminals in volunteer districts and conducting…