This 21-paper collection examines various issues in electronic networking and conferencing with computers, including design issues, conferencing in education, electronic messaging, computer conferencing applications, social issues of computer conferencing, and distributed computer conferencing. In addition to a keynote address, "Computer…

This background paper, prepared for the Council of Europe on the problem of equivalence in professional qualifications and academic studies among the European countries, contains eleven proposals to set up a system that would interpret information on equivalence. (JH)

This report presents the results of an inquiry initiated by the Dissemination Policy Council of the Educational Division of HEW into the present strengths and weaknesses of educational information dissemination in the nation and what policies or policy changes at the Federal level might be implemented to help deal with the weaknesses.…

The purpose of this document is to highlight the major technical issues of interconnection within a broad based, multi-function, multi-user bibliographic data interchange network in Canada, and to indicate specific areas where development work of a technical nature needs to be undertaken. Recent systems development in the U.S. and Canada is…

The number of objectives that formal education is expected to achieve has grown incredibly over the years. The task of educating has become so complex that the problems are hardly comprehensible. As with other complex problems, people tend to turn in frustration to simplistic solutions. When educational variables are studied, unfortunately, no…

An overview of the current status of child care information and referral (CCIR) services in the United States is provided in this report, based on the first phase of a 3-year study funded jointly by the Day Care Division of the Administration for Children, Youth, and Families and the Ford Foundation. Chapter One defines the project's goals and…

This report presents descriptive and evaluative materials on the development of the Urban Education Network, an organization that joined 20 school districts, 11 state departments of education, and the Central Midwestern Regional Educational Lab (CEMREL), for the purpose of improving urban education. Part I of the report written by Kenneth Pickens…

This overview of information dissemination describes activities in the 33 states serviced by The Appalachia Educational Laboratory, CEMREL, Inc., Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory, Research for Better Schools, Inc., and the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory. The programs discussed include state dissemination plans and…

Bulletin 4 of the European Documentation and Information System for Education (EUDISED) compiles citations and abstracts of on-going and completed projects in educational research and development from 14 participating countries. Projects are grouped and cross referenced according to facets and sub-facets of the EUDISED Thesaurus, which precedes…

The 15 papers and summaries of presentations in this collection provide technical information and guidance offered by representatives from federal agencies and private industry. Topics discussed include physical security, risk assessment, software security, computer network security, and applications and implementation of the Data Encryption…

Programs of the National Library of Medicine over almost a century and a half are described, ranging from a history of American medical literature and the development of medical indexing to modern technological developments. Activities covered include the development of the Toxicology Information Program and the online data base TOXLINE; the…

The development of a National Documentation Centre in the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan's East Bank is described in five major sections including basic data (geographical background, historical background, population, natural resources, services, finance, research and development, and planning); the information situation (user studies, media, data…

This report describes the National Diffusion/Adoption Network, who is involved with it (developer/demonstrators, state facilitators, state education agencies, the U.S. Office of Education, and local school districts), and what happened during the first year of its operaton. (DS)

Published to elicit comments and discussion from the library and information service communities, this working paper on governance of a nationwide library and information service network proposes and discusses three scenarios for the construction of such a network. The first explores a legislative model resulting from prescriptive legislative…

Included in this booklet are Federal, State, and locally funded Asian and Pacific bilingual programs. The directory is divided into five sections, which are sub-divided by State and city. The first section lists Basic Education Programs. Citations include the name, address and telephone number of each district, schools within the program,…