This survey of elementary and secondary schools gathered information regarding the function of educational specialists. Four functions are analysed: remedial reading, guidance, psychological services, and library assistance. No real pattern evolved as to deployment of any one function at either school level. To examine the people with whom…

This report is the last in a series of papers prepared by EDUCOM (the Interuniversity Communications Council) whose aim was to develop a long-range plan for strengthening information communication and exchange among the libraries of the land-grant institutions and the National Agricultural Library (NAL). The role of EDUCOM was to substantiate the…

This report is concerned with the extent and condition of academic and other facilities of higher education institutions in Maine. Information bearing on the use of these facilities and the plans of institutions for enrollment and plant expansion is included. A number of recommendations are made concerning the future role and location of public…

Project Intrex is a program of experiments intended to provide a foundation for the design of future information transfer systems, with the library of the future visualized as a computer-managed communications network. In order to discover the necessary facts, especially in the area of the user's interaction with the system, experimentation is…

The National Bureau of Standards is mechanizing a catalog of currently available information sources and services. Information from recent surveys of machine-readable, commercially-available bibliographic data bases, and the various current awareness, batch retrospective, and interactive retrospective services which can access them have been…

This comprehensive handbook, which emphasizes major planning problems and their solutions, should enable administrators and others to enhance the professional skills they will need for the successful management and operation of statewide systems of higher learning. Chapters cover: design for statewide planning; socioeconomic comparisons among…

This catalog gives an annotated listing of selected films available for use in family planning programs. Films are listed alphabetically, geographically by particular country, and by subject. In most cases information is given concerning length, producer, distributor, cost, and rental conditions from the International Planned Parenthood…

Minority groups should be accurately presented in educational materials for all school children, especially those with minority backgrounds. Materials should avoid giving the minority child a negative self-image. Life should be portrayed as it is, including harsh realities. Factual material must reflect authoritative, comprehensive, and current…

As the first of four scheduled revisions of a series of six earlier volumes compiled by the National Referral Center under the general title "A Directory of Information Resources in the United States," a total of 2,891 entries are presented in this volume to update and extend the physical sciences and engineering coverage of the 1965…

An international study was undertaken to assemble available and pertinent information about television video-distribution systems and to relate this information to the present and potential future requirements of educational television services. The study also sought to illustrate through model situations the costs and benefits of particular…

The management field of Organization Development approaches institutions from the social, technical, and economic systems with major emphasis on group process. Organization Development contains many possibilities for libraries and their staff to meet the challenge of our greatly changing environment. This paper outlines the methods by which an…

The National Library of Medicine maintains a computerized analysis and retrieval system and administers various programs for collecting, publishing, disseminating, and exchanging medical health information. A major use of the library's computer is to prepare bibliographies of biomedical subjects requested by medical schools, researchers,…

The purpose of this inventory is to list a number of "major" information services and systems in the field of science and technology, either in the government or in the private sector. If a distinction is made between traditional information systems such as libraries, documentation services etc., and the wide spectrum of mechanized…

The first section establishes a working definition of library science and outlines the existing publications patterns of library science information. The existing system of bibliographic organization is examined in detail and services provided in the U.S.S.R. are described as an example of a systematic attempt at world coverage. In late 1967,…

In recent years many new and wonderful devices offer their own unique contribution to the recording and communication of ideas. These new media include multi-sensory materials, radio, and television. Many schools have developed separate administrative organizations to provide services from these newer media of communication, while others have…