The Butler, Pennsylvania, school district developed an AV equipment control system that identifies equipment and contains a service and repair record. (MLF)

Along with its human resources, financial assets, and intellectual cache, space is a primary resource of an educational institution. Indeed, the dollar value (initial cost, replacement cost, or market value) of a postsecondary education institution's buildings sometimes exceeds its annual operating budget and endowment. Without information on how…

For the current study, institutions evaluated education and general (E&G) buildings on their campuses using an assessment format established in the original deferred maintenance study conducted in 1994. The joint study, "Deferred Maintenance, An Analysis of South Carolina's Facilities Portfolio," conducted by the Commission on Higher…

Twenty-one scholarly papers and fifteen abstracts comprise the content of the tenth annual Brick and Click Libraries Symposium, held annually at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, Missouri. The peer-reviewed proceedings, authored by academic librarians and presented at the symposium, portray the contemporary and future face of…

Guidelines for building owners to use in determining if a building is a financial asset or a liability. (MLF)

This facilities inventory report presents a comprehensive listing of physical assets owned and operated by the University of Alaska and includes, for each asset, data on average age, weighted average age, gross square footage, original total project funding, and the asset's plant investment value adjusted to the current year. Facilities are listed…

This report presents summary analyses based on data obtained in a study of the physical facilities inventory and the regularly scheduled resident classes taught at the state-controlled colleges and universities in Virginia. The data reflect the actual utilization of instructional classrooms and teaching laboratories for Fall 1970, and are…

The alphanumeric code is a system put forward with the hope that it will bring uniformity in methods of inventory-taking and describing all sorts of audio-visual material which can be used in either French or English. The alphanumeric code classifies audio-visual materials in such a way as to indicate the exact nature of the media, the format, the…

Lists the items that should be included in a school building inventory and discusses techniques for marketing once the decision to close a building has been made. (MLF)

School districts can economize by central purchasing; standardizing equipment, materials, and supplies that are in general use; and listing supplies in a supply catalog. (MLF)

Completion of the gymnasium-auditorium of Anatolia College in Thessaloniki is a testimony to the friendship between the peoples of Greece and the United States. (MJB)

Addresses the problem of funds lost from interest because of once-per-year delivery schedules that result in excess supplies on hand. The solution used is to carefully match the structure of supplies inventory systems to the assumptions used in formal models from management science. (Author/IRT)

A record of fixed assets is essential for intelligent decisionmaking relating to budgeting, forecasting, and insurance programs. (Author)