The three-year-old system for organizing and classifying materials in career counseling, devised for the Curricular/Career Information Service at Florida State University, is described and critically appraised. This system shows improvement in meeting needs of counselors and clientele. (Author/MBR)

A PROJECT INVOLVING STORING AND SEARCHING READING RESEARCH BY COMPUTER WAS CONDUCTED (1) TO IDENTIFY, COLLECT, AND ORGANIZE A BASIC CORPUS OF RESEARCH DOCUMENTS FROM THE PUBLISHED RESEARCH LITERATURE ON READING, (2) TO PRODUCE A MASTER FILE MAGNETIC TAPE CONSISTING OF CITATIONS AND ANNOTATIONS FOR COMPUTER STORAGE AND MANIPULATION, (3) TO DESCRIBE…

It is necessary to distinguish the functions, services and products of various types of information services. For example, document centers, clearinghouses, referral centers, and special libraries deal mainly with information in a broad sense. The main function of information analysis centers, however, is to optimize the ratio of knowledge to…

The fourth annual bibliography of ERIC Clearinghouse publications reflects the information analysis activities of each Clearinghouse for Fiscal Year 1971. The publication includes 416 substantive bibliographies, papers, and state-of-the-art reviews which are identified as ERIC information analysis publications. The full text of 310 of the 416…

The Information Processing Unit of the Council for Exceptional Children Information Center acquires, abstracts, indexes, stores, retrieves, and disseminates a comprehensive bank of information regarding the education of exceptional children. These functions are served by three sections: Acquisitions, Indexing and Abstracting, and Information…

The Information Retrieval Center of the Northern Colorado Educational Board of Cooperative Services (NCEBOCS) offers computer-and manually-produced information products to educators within a regional network. The Center searches the automated Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) data base to provide three products: Catalog of…

This directory was compiled to aid health, physical education, and recreation professionals locate and gain access to the information systems that store materials in their areas of interest. Information is included about (1) U.S.-based information centers, (2) many of the Canadian systems, and (3) the International Association for Sport…

Remarks regarding the current programs of information flow within the EOP, which include the creation of the White House Information Center, are prefaced by historical perspectives. (Author/MBR)

Public awareness of services provided by the Centre for Leisure Studies in Nova Scotia is necessary if the Centre is to have any impact during this age of increasing leisure activity. The Centre's goals and activities to achieve this end are discussed. (MBR)

The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre is concerned with the retrieval, evaluation, synthesis, and dissemination of structural data obtained by diffraction methods. This article (Part I is EJ053033) describes the work of the center and deals with the organization and maintenance of a computerized file of numeric crystallographic structural…

Provides background on the European Documentation Centres (EDCs), i.e., units set up by the European Community within institutions of higher education interested in the study of European integration. Activities of the EDC network in the United Kingdom, the value and functions of EDCs in information provision, and the future outlook are discussed.…

From modest beginnings, ERIC has grown both as a documentation system and as a service organization. The current status of the system is reviewed in several areas: organizational structure and operation, collection strengths and acquisitions procecures, technical developments in vocabulary improvement, auxiliary reference tools, and efforts to…

To better coordinate the work of the 16 ERIC Clearinghouses with that of other information service providers, the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI) conducted a survey that defined and described the clients and services of 100 public and private education-related clearinghouses. For the purposes of this survey, a clearinghouse…

This directory lists more than 900 organizations that provide individuals with access to the ERIC database and related resources. In order to help users quickly locate organizations where ERIC resources and related services are available within a geographically short distance, the service providers are presented in three sections covering the…