This is the final report of the Guam Governor's Conference on Library and Information Services (GGCLIS), 1990. Approximately 160 delegates, representing library and information professionals, active library supporters, territorial and federal government officials, and the reading public, gathered together to develop recommendations for the…

This guide is intended to help consumer and provider organizations develop programs to find and assimilate individuals with disabilities. The guide has five sections. Section 1 overviews the components of an effective outreach plan including timelines, a calendar of events, the media, success factors, problem prevention, and budgeting. Section 2…

The 1989 edition of the annual resource directory provides information on about 140 national, state, and local organizations that offer AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) related services to deaf and hard-of-hearing persons. Organizations were selected for inclusion because they provide one or more of the following: TTY/TDD access, sign…

The report examines systems developed by Indiana, Wisconsin, and Louisiana to monitor interagency coordination of educational related services for handicapped children. The background and development of special education legislation in each of the three states are reviewed along with the structure of the state education agency (SEA). Each state is…

Intended to serve as suggested guidelines for library and information services in state agencies, this manual was prepared for use by administrators, librarians, and other agency staff. The first section provides information for the agency director on state agency libraries and their administration, personnel, the librarian's role, facilities and…

The handbook is designed to help teachers and administrators develop or improve vocationally oriented programs for moderately retarded students. The major topics addressed in the book were identified through a Delphi data gathering approach. Seven sections are arranged in the order that activities should occur in program modification and/or…

The relationship between the U.S. Department of Education's eligibility system and accreditation is discussed by the Secretary of Education, T. H. Bell. Because of the link between eligibility for federal funds and peer evaluation through accreditation, the Department has developed criteria and procedures to determine which national, regional, and…

Intended to help the Hawaii Vocational Rehabilitation and Services for the Blind administration improve productivity, this report focuses on the measurement of productivity and on the use of program information to monitor performance and to investigate the causes of productivity problems. A process is recommended for establishing performance…

Two models of the senior center are examined: (1) the social agency model, which views senior centers as programs especially for the poor and the disengaged and (2) the voluntary organization model, which sees centers as for active elderly who have strong attachments to the community. Findings support the voluntary organization model. Paper…

A plea for not excluding (by federal legislation) privately provided day care in order to insure a variety of choices for parents. (ED)

Calls for coordination of existing community structures in combination with the creation of broad-based public support as ways of providing needed child abuse services efficiently, effectively and compassionately. (ED)

In Britain university funding comes through Government research councils and the non-government University Grants Committee "block grants" used for a combination of research and instruction determined by each university. The author proposes a systems approach in which change is obtained at institutional level by rearranging the binding…

Agency-sponsored family day care providers and agency home visitors were interviewed and given questionnaires to find out their opinions on issues in family day care. (BRT)

Suggests appropriate interview techniques for agency workers to use in screening potential family day care providers. (BRT)

Causes and effects are examined for recent cuts in the budgets of the Office of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) and the National Institute of Education (NIE). Through interviews with agency executives the author finds new priority placed on selling themselves and their products to Congress. (JT)