Several suburban Chicago (Illinois) school districts are members of the South Suburban School Purchasing Cooperative, which serves as a conduit for volume purchases of educational supplies. (Author/MLF)

At the University of Dayton in Ohio, a database management system maintains records of 10,000 students from their initial admission application until graduation. (Author)

Firm size, employee characteristics, and structure and type of product or service generated are all factors that must be considered and analyzed in dealing with any particular employment problem. Unfortunately, this type of rigorous analysis is not evident in the material surveyed in this report. (Author)

The installation of aluminum siding, storm windows, and shutters in Bennington College dormitories is expected to save one million dollars in maintenance costs alone over the next 20 years. (Author/MLF)

Demonstrates how benefit-cost and present-value analyses can be used to assess the potential social benefits of government projects and to illustrate how interest rates affect decision-making in government and business. (AYC)

Clarifies three basic causes of the success of human resource development functions from an internal marketing perspective. They are functions actively rendering services in the right "client segments" of their organization; functions doing a few important tasks well; and doing those right things consistently. (CT)

Small audiovisual center facilities may have advantages over their larger counterparts in areas of cost-effectiveness, encouraging media specialist creativity and instructional effectiveness. (CMV)

Analyzes the suitability of microforms for the reproduction of visual material, and suggests that microformat is a more economical and convenient means of making these materials accessible to the scholar. (Author/CMV)

Defines construction management, lists the qualifications for the position, the services offered, and the benefits of construction management. (MLF)

Compares two types of facilities for development and revision of videodisc materials: a film-based premastery system and a video-based system. The first has advantages of lower initial costs, while the second is better for quality, time, and recurring cost savings. (Author/JEG)

The six independent schools that make up Claremont are using a new private telephone system that has significantly reduced overhead, cut utility bills, increased staff efficiency, and brought students and faculty closer together. (Author/MLF)

Presents a decision model for selecting media based on cost and benefit factors. Cost variables that should be considered, how to calculate those costs, the benefits that should be considered, how to assess the benefits, and the limitations of their model are all discussed. (Author/JEG)

Purchasing forms carelessly can cost money. Duke University has established a forms management system expected to save $40,000, or almost 10 percent, in the first year of operation. (Author/MLF)

The Clark County School District in Las Vegas, Nevada, has successfully used urethane roofing to lower mechanical and electrical expenses. (MLF)

Some of a group of 143 consumers were given a choice between higher-priced, higher-quality items and items with lower price and quality but higher value index (benefit/cost tradeoff); others were given price and quality information only. Consumers were more likely to choose lower-priced, higher-value options when the index information was…