The development of the Chilean National Center for Information and Documentation is traced. (8 references) (SJ)

The United States Commissioner of Education urges fuller national commitment to adult and continuing education; he suggests that a national center and local councils be created for information dissemination and program planning. (LY)

A summary of concepts and ideas presented at the 1970 Annual Conference of the National University Extension Association concerning purposes, activities and functions, financing, and local and national organization for the proposed center. (LY)

The concern of this paper is to portray a rational response to the problems of providing computerized information services in the medium-to-large university. (6 references) (Author)

The Government Printing Office offers millions of publications that can be used as valuable source material. (IR)

Discusses the background and theory of the Critical Success Factors (CSF) management method, as well as its application in an information center or other special library environment. CSF is viewed as a management tool that can enhance the viability of the special library within its parent organization. (FM)

Colleges and universities can never be too prepared, whether for physical attacks or data security breaches. A quick data slice of over 7,000 US higher ed institutions, using the Office of Postsecondary Education's Campus Security Data Analysis Cutting Tool Website and cutting across public and private two- and four-year schools, reveals some…

A discussion of how electronic information retrieval has individualized education, especially for adults. (HB)

Reprinted from School Management (Feb. 1974), this brief article describes the establishment and function of a high school center for college information staffed entirely by community volunteers. The center relieves the guidance staff of many time-consuming functions enabling them to spend more time with student concerns. (CJ)

Outlines the program of the center and its plans for a national scientific library. (PF)

A systematic search is necessary in order to pull together a complete bibliography on dyslexia because the literature is divided among several quite different disciplines, notably medicine, education, and psychology. If the results of this search are shared, time will be saved and the general quality of research efforts will improve. The Reading…

As part of a broader effort to increase communication between the social work practitioner and the field of the behavioral sciences, this guide provides a review of the most specialized information resources relevant to wide-ranging interests in the field of social work. The main body of the paper describes primarily institutional resources, with…

The purpose of the Iranian Documentation Centr (Irandoc) was to collect that portion of the world's literature which was pertinent to Iran's research interests, to organize that material, and to promote its use by Iranian researchers. Stated more succinctly, Irandoc's purpose was to obtain ready access to the world's scientific literature in order…