Questionnaires designed to determine the extent of computer usage in secondary schools in Texas and the level of commitment to this usage by teachers, principals, and campuses were mailed to 1,950 principals. Results based on the 1,191 30-item forms returned indicate that computer usage generally increases with campus size. Principals of schools…

This description of microcomputer use in schools within the East Texas School Study Council (ETSSC), a professional organization of 80 school districts, is based on 279 responses (66%) to a survey of 422 elementary and secondary school principals. Topics addressed include hardware and software available for educational use, microcomputing…

Sixteen articles, books, and reports published between 1978 and 1983 and cited in "Resources in Education" and "Current Index to Journals in Education" are listed in this bibliography on online public access catalogs (OPACs). Emphasis is on the movement toward computer-based alternatives to library card catalogs and user…

With grants from the Council on Library Resources (CLR) and the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), New York University (NYU) Libraries conducted a study to assess user reactions to their online catalog, Bobcat (Bobst Library Computerized Catalog). In order to evaluate the effectiveness of NYU's catalog, to describe users' attitudes toward…

The use of MERLIN, a computer assisted tutorial system, was evaluated in both a supervised and an unsupervised mode in 1980. MERLIN was used only in an Open University second level course entitled "Images and Information," which dealt with modern imaging systems. The tutorials covered the first 10 of 16 study units and were taken via the…

The kit on electronic mail (EM) contains results of a January 1984 Systems and Procedures Exchange Center (SPEC) survey on current and planned uses of EM within the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). Questionnaires were distributed to all 117 member institutions. Of the 69% who responded (81), 43% (35) indicated that they now use EM in their…

This paper reports the results of a circulation study in the government documents departments of a public library and an academic library. Based on a systematic random sample of the records of materials returned in 1981, the study had two purposes: to seek evidence to support the assumption that current documents circulate more than older ones;…

A variety of promising new media are considered from the perspectives of their educational effectiveness, major features, and potential for educational utilization. In Part I, three categories of new media are specifically addressed: (1) broadcasting systems--satellite broadcasting, high-definition (high resolution) television, (multiplexed)…

Adequate recordkeeping in medical libraries provides useful guidelines for collection management, acquisitions, cataloging, circulation, planning, and administration. Computerized recordkeeping is also discussed, as well as the characteristics of library users and library use patterns. There are extensive references. (LS)

Media studied in this report include broadcasting (radio and television), press (newspapers and magazines), literature, motion pictures, and sound and video recordings. First, there is an overview of Finnish mass communications on a qualitative level. After this, quantitative data are presented, divided into categories of production and…

Strategies are examined for utilizing the mass communications media to improve standards of living within developing nations. This report, addressed to decision-makers in developing nations and the Agency for International Development (AID), is designed to assist them in planning their improvement communications programs. A general introduction is…

Computer outreach refers to the application of local computer capability to the development of new or improved computer uses. This study describes three outreach areas. "Computer uses for elders," the first area, focuses on elders as a new group of computer users or clients. The second area, "computer use and abuse," aims at helping to insure the…

A study investigated the influence of users' attitudes and sources of information on their adoption of a training research project. A two-part questionnaire was administered to 111 Army participants attending TRADOC/FORSCOM Training and Evaluation Workshops to gather attitudinal and usage information relating to the adoption of the Training…

This user's guide, the first of four modules for similar benefits usage, is the result of a project of the University of Michigan Rehabilitation Research Institute in conjunction with the Virginia Department of Rehabilitative Services (DRS) model program evaluation unit to examine the issue of similar benefits in the state-federal rehabilitation…

This user's guide, the last of four training modules for similar benefits usage, is the result of a project of the University of Michigan Rehabilitation Research Institute in conjunction with the Virginia Department of Rehabilitative Services (DRS) model program evaluation unit to examine the issue of similar benefits in the state-federal…