This document outlines basic planning and management principles for refugee services. Various administrative, funding, planning, and delivery concepts are discussed from the perspectives of state coordinators, administrators, and community agencies. The guide is intended to be of use in planning and managing individual services and in developing…

This 5-year report documents the establishment of a dissemination network to provide educational research materials to Texas educators. Originally supported by an NIE grant and now fully state supported, the system is accomplishing its four basic objectives: identification of information needs, expansion of the quantity and scope of available…

Created to facilitate the dissemination of information between researchers and the educational community, the Northeast Regional Exchange steering committee has defined needs, determined agency qualifications, identified priorities, undertaken a series of minigrant projects, and developed plans for the extension of these projects and a study of…

Eight agencies (including three teacher centers and three Teacher Corps programs) in the state of Washington, concerned with inservice teacher education, formed a network to test and to explore avenues of cooperation and coordination. Since the emphasis was on collaboration between Teacher Corps and and teacher centers, the first step was to…

A 2-phase study evaluated the existing reference referral network in California, and developed and evaluated two alternative designs, one organization-based and the other formula-based. The evaluation phase consisted of the following tasks: (1) a survey of all public libraries and cooperative systems of the state regarding their priorities for and…

This description of the PLATO system over its first seven years describes the development of PLATO III and PLATO IV, lists financial supporters of the PLATO project from 1960 to 1977, outlines highlights in its history, and provides a chronological list of publications about the system. Figures include the locations and increasing numbers of PLATO…

This study investigates, identifies, and documents the need for cooperative media review centers in the state of Wisconsin and makes recommendations for their development and implementation. To this end, over 100 persons representing library/media/education and professional organizations were interviewed, literature reviews conducted, resources…

This paper reprints the Australian report to UNISIST, the World Science Information System, whose objective is the development of national, regional, and international scientific, technological, industrial, and agricultural information policies, infrastructures, and services. It represents a full statement of the National Library's services and…

Presenting approximately 500 libraries and information sources through the National Natural Resources Library and Information System (NNRLIS), this directory identifies and locates the libraries within the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior. The following departments are included: Office of the Secretary, Office of the Solicitor,…

Activities of the Resource and Referral Service (RRS), a central service contractor to the Research and Development Exchange (RDx), are documented for the period between March 1, 1977, when Phase II was funded, to November 30, 1977. Product outputs from RRS are described and related to project objectives. The objectives, which correspond to…

To obtain user evaluations of the information analysis products (IAPs) produced by the Educational Resources Information Center Clearinghouse on Tests, Measurement, and Evaluation (ERIC/TM), subjects were randomly drawn from a 1976 list of the clearinghouse's IAP orders. The sample was stratified by the title requested and the following…

Problems encountered by federal agencies in the United States in providing information and referral (I&R) for human services are described. These problems, which have resulted from fragmentation and duplication of effort, include: limited accessibility; no publicity; restricted services; lack of proper needs assessment and follow-up services;…

The guidelines presented here for regional, national, or international referral centers are concerned with the effective exploitation of available information inventories. Defined as agencies which refer inquirers to the sources most likely to provide the desired information, these centers are recognized by UNESCO's UNISIST program as necessary…

This report of a conference on the use of telephone technology in education includes 33 papers which deal with such areas as the use of the telephone in the administration of a telephone network or conference system, support services, program evaluation in telecommunication, program planning, teleconferencing, computer control of teleconferencing,…

The Southeastern Teacher Corps Conference on Promoting Faculty Involvement spoke to the following issues: 1) Acquainting conference participants with the processes and problems of institutionalization; 2) Introducing participants to a variety of incentives and rewards useful to promote faculty involvement in field-based activities; 3)…