The opening session of the seventh annual seminar of the Documentation Research and Training Center is provided in verbatim form. The section of Group Meetings and Plenary Sessions examines the propositions presented in the thirty-two papers presented in Volume I (LI 002 230). The balance of the report provides: (1) the Valedictory Address and the…

At an institute held in July 1970 at Appalachian State University four papers, reproduced here, discussed training in libraries. Louise Giles spoke about planning guidelines in "Planning Community College Library/Learning Resource Centers: The Key is Flexibility." Stephen F. McKeon presents his ideal for a library in "Living Room Library" which…

The objectives of the program outlined in this report were (1) to assist local white and Negro professional organizations to work out the details of their merger and (2) to provide inservice conferences on school desegregation for personnel in various counties of northern Florida public schools. Instruction was given at the institutes and field…

This book is divided into three sections in which the authors of the articles which comprise the book discuss the problems of teaching and understanding the disadvantaged. The articles presented in section 1 ("The Problem as Viewed by an Interdisciplinary Team") deal with the characteristics of the disadvantaged (including discussions of…

This handbook describes the 1969-70 Region II West Virginia New Careers in Education Program which includes three training and development components: (1) a 4-week summer preservice institute for teachers (K-12) and teacher aides and a 1-week institute for principals; (2) weekly inservice seminars for teachers and aides, on-the-job training for…

The purpose of this consulting center in Delaware is to encourage intercultural education and school integration by aiding educational and community leaders to design appropriate administrative and teaching strategies. Services of this center at the University of Delaware are supported by the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IV and are available to…

This report describes a 1-week institute designed to upgrade research and evaluation skills of persons associated with PL 89-10 Title I and Title III projects. The institute's objectives were to illustrate and provide experience in: (1) operationalizing objectives of instructional programs; (2) designing projects with appropriate controls to allow…

This conference report, which presents guidelines for the establishment of in-service primary level teacher training in developing countries through correspondence courses, is divided into two sections: a) Policy and Planning and b) the Establishment of an Institution. Once the decision has been made to establish a correspondence training program,…

The Urban Educational Researchers' Training Institute (UERTI) was designed to train school personnel in the process of educational research, design, evaluation, and dissemination. Its objectives were: (a) to test an inservice training model in educational research and evaluation, (b) to provide intensive research experiences for persons employed…

The manual consists of a systematically designed process for implementation of a 3 to 5 day media production workshop for inservice and preservice teachers of the deaf. Included are the following components: goals and program objectives, a schedule of workshops for the 1972-1973 school year, an address list of teacher preparation programs for the…

A two year institute sought to prepare educational media specialists who would be experts in instructional development. As such, they would be able to: 1) apply systems analysis techniques to instructional problems; 2) evaluate and use instructional media; 3) design graphic instructional media; 4) evaluate teaching strategies and instructional…

One hundred and seventy-six public school administrators, teachers, and students from the State of Tennessee attended a five-day institute designed to improve intergroup relations within their schools. As one method of indicating the effects of the institute on their attitudes, a pretest and posttest attitudinal survey was administered. This paper…

In May of 1970, a 1-week workshop brought together vocational educators, information science experts, and specialists in planned educational change for the purpose of developing models of information systems designed to utilize research and development information in bringing about innovations designed to facilitate vocational-technical education…

The purpose of this institute is to provide the individual with an introduction to the place of the library technical assistant in the organization of the college, public, school or special library. Orientation information stresses the areas of material processing, patron services, non-print media, and automation. Tours of the Engelhard Elementary…

The papers and transcripts included in this report were presented at the EPDA Institute for in-service training of administrators and trustees of small colleges held at Eureka College, Illinois, in August 1970. The papers included are: "Issues and Problems of the Small Colleges in the Seventies," by Frederic W. Ness; "The…