The Records of the Colorado Flower Growers Association (CFGA) is an archival collection documenting the association prior to its 1979 name change. The CFGA was founded in 1928 to support the production and marketing of greenhouse flowers grown commercially in the state. In 1979, the organization changed its name to the Colorado Greenhouse Growers…

Implementing a complex business intelligence (BI) system at a small school or one with limited resources can seem daunting. For small to midsize schools and community colleges, a strategic BI initiative may still be an elusive goal. This article discusses how schools with limited resources are making the dream a reality.

Describes the functions and activities of the International Bureau of Education in Geneva, which is devoted to promoting the flow of educational information between countries. (Author)

This inventory of information centers and service centers in the language sciences was compiled by the project staff of the LINCS program at the Center for Applied Linguistics during the period 1966-1968, and it is planned to update the listing in the near future. Eighty-four centers in all parts of the world are listed. Each entry contains the…

Primarily a review A Language-Teaching Bibliography," (1968) prepared by the Centre for Information on Language Teaching and The English-Teaching Information Centre of the British Council, and An Annotated Bibliography of Modern Language Teaching, Books and Articles 1946-1967," (1969) by Janet O. Robinson. Includes brief discussions of other…

Presents a brief historical summary of library development in Islamic culture, describes the present status of libraries and information centers, and outlines overall problems, specifically the absence of national planning, trained local staffs, library legislation, library associations, an advanced book trade, and an effective national library.…

The age of networked research and networked data analysis is upon us. "Wired Magazine" proclaims on the cover of their July 2008 issue: "The End of Science. The quest for knowledge used to begin with grand theories. Now it begins with massive amounts of data. Welcome to the Petabyte Age." Computing technology is sufficiently complex at this point…

A description of the National Center for Scientific and Technical Documentation, Brussels. (JG)

These notes are intended for working scientists who wish to set up and operate Specialized Information Centers to serve their own specialized areas of science. Their purpose is to set out the different tasks to be performed and the decisions that must be taken, to discuss the problems of Center operation and to suggest some of the solutions. This…

A humorous account is given of a typical day at the San Mateo Educational Resources Center (SMERC), which provides information services to educators in 23 California Counties and parts of seven other states. (JPF)