A study of library shelving to determine the work load of personnel at an information center was undertaken in three separate time periods during 1975-76. A statistical technique was utilized to help in the determination of work performed. This information can be helpful to management in work allocation. Statistical tables are included. (Author/AP)

This report contains a description and evaluation of the City College School of Education Advisory Service Workshop Center for Open Education, a program funded under Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. The program is a free resource facility for all participants in the school process; teachers, administrators,…

The article describes aperture cards and microfiche (accompanied by a hard-copy guide and index) prepared by the Florida Center for Career Development Services apprenticeships. A film and television announcements are also available to publicize apprenticeships and the microform package. (MF)

Regional population networks identified and discussed include APLIC, POPINFORM, and POPLINE (North America and Europe), DOCPAL (Latin America), ESCAP (Asia), and PIDSA (Africa). Brief discussion of the POPINS proposal which appears to be emerging as a model program is also included. (JPF)

This resource system consists of eight information and referral centers each housing a resource instrument (binders and flip chart), an operator, outreach staff, one mobile instrument, a systematic updating system and an evaluation system. (Author/DOW)

The article describes services of the Frambu Health Centre in Norway, which has evolved during the past 30 years from a summer camp for children with poliomyelitis to a modern information and treatment center for families with disabled members, and offers fortnightly courses for patients with rare congenital and/or hereditary disorders. (Author/MC)

It is shown that automatic search profiles can be derived which perform comparably with corresponding manual profiles. The most efficient automatic profiles, in terms of performance and search time, are those consisting predominantly of single terms enriched with fragments. (Author/PF)

Data quality and speed in data processing profoundly affect service provided to the Educational Resources Information Center's (ERIC's) broad audiences. With these factors in mind, a new technology infrastructure for processing records has been acquired and is scheduled for implementation. The story of how the ERIC database is being constructed is…

The Georgia Tech plan makes cross-country use as nearly like cross-campus use as possible. (Author/JB)

The seminar, held in Washington, DC from November 6 to 17, 1972, was focussed on the: (a) present situation of the centers and their potential information transfer capacity, (b) improvement of current services, (c) development of an integrated plan, and (d) bases of a national policy for coordinated services. (Author/SM)

Laboratories for Learning Resourses, instead of replacing or competing with the medical library, should provide a learning environment for medical students, with books, laboratory-lecture presentations, slide-sound programs, films, videotapes, computer models and programs, museum specimens and charts. (Author/PG)

Describes the operations and procedures of the Florida Educational Resources Information Center, which is an expansion and renovation made possible by a federal grant of the Vocational Research and Evaluation Information Center of the Florida Department of Education. (JM)

It is crucially important that libraries adopt a more active mode of operation and take on the characteristics or become part of information centers. (Author/AB)

A brief comprehensive history of the internal operations of the Medical Center Library and Communication Systems at the University of Kentucky is given. (MM)