Information analysis centers (IACs) represent a valuable national resource which has not been fully utilized, often because their products and services are not widely known. Recent Government economy measures demand consideration of increased marketability of these products and services and the institution of service charges as a possible source…

The ERIC information system is designed for computerized information storage and retrieval. While the computer can play an increasingly more vital role in facilitating reference searches of large literature collections, experience shows that manual searching gives the user skills and expertise that are essential to effectively use the computerized…

The purpose of advocacy in an information and referral (I & R) center is to obtain service for older people where such service is not now available to them or is non-existent. This is related to the center's mission of linking older people and services together. Advocacy at the case level is concerned with individuals who have not received the…

Chapter 1 discusses what outreach is, why this service is needed and what it can do. Chapter 2, is concerned with outreach personnel including a job description, recruitment, selection, salary, working hours, training and supervision. Chapter 3 covers how to select the outreach service area, making canvassing assignments and pre-canvassing…

Contained in this report are seven of the sixteen papers which resulted from the Seminar. The seven papers are (1) Trends in Informational Operations, (2) Present Status and Future Plans of Government Information Agencies, (3) The Congress and Research and Development, (4) Air Force Systems Commanded Comments on Technical Information Systems, (5)…

The main purpose of this report is to help novice reviewers accelerate their apprenticeship at the Nuclear Safety Information Center, a computerized information service sponsored by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Guidelines for reviewers are presented in Part 1; Part 2 contains guidelines for the novice editor. The goal of the reviewers and…

The main objective of the conference was to explore methods for close and fruitful cooperation between the region's documentation centers. The conference was held to establish closer contacts between the documentation center staffs, to expand in-service training, and promote information and personnel exchange. The conference is considered to be an…

The major objective of the IITRI Computer Search Center is to educate and link industry, academia, and government institutions to chemical and other scientific information systems and sources. The Center was developed to meet this objective and is in full operation providing services to users from a variety of machine-readable data bases with…

Information centers exist to provide information from machine-readable data bases to users in industry, universities and other organizations. The computer Search Center of the IIT Research Institute was designed with a number of variables and uncertainties before it. In this paper, the author discusses how the Center was designed to enable it to…

The Mechanized Information Center (MIC) at Ohio State University conducts retrospective and current awareness searches using data bases for agriculture, chemistry, education, psychology, and social sciences, as well as a multidisciplinary data base. Described in the report are the history and background of MIC, the data bases, information…

Established to help solve the problems of rural attorneys in Nebraska via mail and telephone research services, the Creighton Legal Information Center (CLIC) is described in this manual in terms of project development and organization; project operations; replication and policy issues; costs and project budgeting; and program results.…

Discusses the history, objectives, sponsorship, and services of the Canadian Communications Research Information Centre. (JY)

Anyone interested in children's literature should know about the services of the Office of Education's Educational Materials Center and its unique collection of text and trade books, past and present. (Editor)

Describes the function of the British Council's English Teaching Information Centre, which serves foreign students, teachers, teacher trainers, scientists, textbook writers, etc. Emphasizes the Centre's work in English for Special Purposes, including an ample library and many services. Address: ETIC, British Council, 10 Spring Gardens, London SW…

Summarizes presentations on profitability in the information industry from the viewpoints of producers, who have to have a reason to be in business, and users, whose businesses are often driven by the information they can access and the price of that information. (Author/CLB)