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Library of Congress, Washington, DC. – 1984
The Program Session of the April 1984 meeting of the Library of Congress Network Advisory Committee (NAC) was devoted to discussion of electronic information delivery systems. Recent developments in six areas were covered: (1) electronic manuscript generation and transmission; (2) online full-text searching and retrieval; (3) online database…
Descriptors: Databases, Delivery Systems, Electronic Equipment, Information Dissemination
Greenbaum, Stuart; And Others – 1986
This book is designed to enable school administrators to actively participate in planning and implementing school safety and public relations activities. It provides a conceptual framework of the public relations process and shows its practical application to the problems of school crime and student misbehavior, through discussion of school public…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Crime Prevention, Elementary Secondary Education, Emergency Programs
Kerka, Sandra – 1988
One in every four families with children under the age of 18 is a single-parent family (up from 1 of every 10 in 1970). The vast majority of single-parent families are low-income families consisting of a mother (usually with relatively little formal education) and her young children. Many female single heads of households are either displaced…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Education, Displaced Homemakers, Dropout Prevention
Wu, P. C. – 1986
Under the Teacher Education Center (TEC) Act in Florida, the state's universities, colleges and public school districts were placed into a collaborative working relationship. Using money allocated by the state, school districts can contract with one or more universities or colleges for the delivery of inservice. This paper illustrates strategies…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Cooperative Programs, Delivery Systems, Higher Education
Oduko, Segun – 1986
This paper argues that new technologies, which play significant roles in the process of communication, may solve some problems, but they also tend to create new ones. A discussion of the various problems encountered in Nigeria, where an appreciable penetration of portable video cameras and recorders has given the public more access to, and choice…
Descriptors: Audiences, Broadcast Industry, Censorship, Communications
Fjallbrant, Nancy, Ed. – IATUL Proceedings, 1982
Papers presented at an August 1982 international seminar on online user education include "The Impact of New Technology on Libraries and Their Users," Brian C. Vickery (United Kingdom); "The Role of NORDINFO in Promoting Online Activity: NORDINFO-Origins and Control," Theodora Oker-Blom (Finland); "Librarians and the New…
Descriptors: Databases, Foreign Countries, Information Centers, Information Networks
Matsumura, Tamiko – 1983
This paper describes the development of a proposed Japanese Science Information System (SIS), a nationwide network of research and academic libraries, large-scale computer centers, national research institutes, and other organizations, to be formed for the purpose of sharing information and resources in the natural sciences, technology, the…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Check Lists, Databases, Design Requirements
Durance, Cynthia J. – 1981
This paper provides an update on the status of library systems development in Canada and describes the new initiatives which the National Library is undertaking cooperatively with other institutions to facilitate the development of a nationwide decentralized bibliographic communication network. In order to place current network initiatives and the…
Descriptors: Communications, Decentralization, Developmental Programs, Foreign Countries
Axtmann, Margaret Maes – 1982
Based on the experiences of the National Center for State Courts (NCSC) library in employing dial access to the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) Acquisition Subsystem (ACQS), this paper presents an overview of dial access systems as an alternative to the use of OCLC dedicated terminals. Dial access into online systems is briefly described,…
Descriptors: Costs, Dial Access Information Systems, Information Networks, Input Output Devices
Bridgeford, Nancy; Douglas, Marcia – 1979
A study assessed the activities of five state networks that were designed to transfer experience-based career education (EBCE) ownership to appropriate state and local institutions and to develop a state-level support system for continued implementation of EBCE in local districts. Focus of the analysis was on factors contributing to EBCE entry,…
Descriptors: Career Education, Coordination, Educational Cooperation, Experiential Learning
Research and Development Exchange. – 1981
To further the National Institute of Education's goal of ensuring a coordinated and nationally linked outreach capability for providing schools with the knowledge and services generated through research and development (R&D), the nation's R&D centers developed an interorganizational and collaborative school improvement program known as the…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Educational Research, Information Centers, Information Dissemination
de Man, W. H. Erik, Ed. – 1984
This preliminary conceptual framework and the 23 related guidelines have been prepared by specialists drawn from both developed and developing nations as a joint project of the International Institute for Aerial Survey and Earth Sciences (ITC). The project was designed to analyze linkages between natural resource based data and certain types of…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Databases, Developing Nations, Geographic Distribution
Lieberman, Michael; And Others – 1981
Designed to provide a starting point for the teacher without computer experience, this booklet deals with both the "how" and the "when" of computers in education. Educational applications described include classroom uses with the student as a passive or an active user and programs for the handicapped; the purpose of computers…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Programs, Computers
District of Columbia Public Schools, Washington, DC. Div. of Quality Assurance. – 1981
The District Facilitator Project (DFP) was designed to help public and private schools in the District of Columbia to improve their programs by linking them with exemplary projects that have proven successful in districts around the country. The DFP provides coordination and technical assistance services for implementing the selected program in a…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Demonstration Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Improvement Programs
Pritchard, Roger – 1977
One of a series of Unesco technical information reports, this paper describes the process of setting up an international information network that would disseminate information to developing nations about educational policy and planning. Written in English and French, the paper surveys the general context in which a network has to operate, presents…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Decision Making, Developing Nations, Educational Development
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