This document describes the agricultural knowledge system (AKS) in Israel, emphasizing the unique features of each of the main subsystems--knowledge policymaking, knowledge generation and knowledge transformation, knowledge exchange and transmission, and knowledge utilization. The following conclusions were reached: (1) in addition to the classic…

In an increasingly cost-conscious health care environment, average length of hospital stay has decreased. Although psychiatric inpatient treatment is largely exempt from the constraints of the Medicare diagnosis related groups (DRG's), length of stay for geropsychiatric hospital services has decreased also. A trend toward higher rates of early…

A survey of reference librarians working in 114 public libraries in metropolitan Chicago was conducted in 1983 to determine their acceptance of specific community information and referral (I&R) services, as defined by Thomas Childers in his nationwide survey of public libraries in 1978. A total of 106 responses to the 1983 survey were…

Reports on the Conference on Information and Referral Service in Public Libraries held in Detroit on May 7-9, 1975. (PF)

Libraries must provide more than the usual reference services by taping community information sources such as social agencies, religious organizations, local clubs and societies, local businesses, and residents who have special knowledge. The library must also take an active, rather than passive, role in delivering information. (LS)

A study of one community's agencies and their information and referral services showed little interaction between them and the public library. (LS)

THIS PUBLICATION DISCUSSES IN DEPTH THE PROBLEM OF WATER POLLUTION AS SEEN BY THE FLORIDA STATE BOARD OF HEALTH. DOMESTIC SEWAGE, INDUSTRIAL WASTES, AND ALLEVIATION ACTIVITIES OF THE STATE BOARD OF HEALTH AND COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENTS ARE DESCRIBED. SIX APPENDIXES PRESENT CORRESPONDENCE AND REPORTS REGARDING THE PROBLEM. THIS IS AN ISSUE OF…

In 1969, the Medical School of the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) received a grant from the National Center for Health Services Research and Development (Public Health Service, HEW) to plan and conduct--as a demonstration project--a special retraining program for physicians who had failed to approve the licensure examinations of the Puerto Rico…

The report of a team project concerned with idea development for community mental health centers includes--(1) concept description, (2) development of facility and resource requirements, (3) conceptual diagrams, (4) schematic plans, and (5) model photographs. (MH)

The anthropologist's role in using cable television as a tool of applied anthropology in a new town was examined. The project's purpose was to give a group of people a new usage for a communications medium. (Author/NQ)

"Treading the minefield between the establishment and the minority groups, trying to retain the credence of one while keeping the confidence of the other, will not be easy". Author visits the Center for Information and Advice on Educational Disadvantage at a moment when it is re-examining its role. (Editor)

The study reported here was conducted to determine whether local decision makers have information needs that can be elicited by direct contact, whether their questions could be answered through the resources of a research library, and, if so, whether the public library could have served as well. (Author/JAB)

Describes the Children's Health Program, designed to provide screening and follow up services to isolated rural families. A staff of physicians, nurses, teachers, and nutritionists work at traveling well-child clinics and individually visit isolated families. (SB)

Percentage and frequency information are presented pertaining to the responses of participating health center administrators concerning student access to contraceptive services through the student health center, local family planning agencies, and local private physicians. (MB)