Describes outreach elements of Sea Grant College Programs. Staff serve as intellectual resources and partners with agencies and industry. Examples include the marine advisory service program (extension program), where advisory specialists and coastal field agents report information and research results to the marine community, and a communication…

This document outlines the proposals for a regional information system strategy resulting from a project undertaken by the Caribbean Community Secretariat and the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean Sub-regional Headquarters for the Caribbean. The document covers: (1) the role of information in the development…

This document presents findings of a study that examined the feasibility, implications, and requirements of establishing a state clearinghouse for at-risk education under the auspices of the Arizona Department of Education. Data were collected through interviews with four administrative specialists and a survey of three national and five state…

This paper describes the development of a proposed Japanese Science Information System (SIS), a nationwide network of research and academic libraries, large-scale computer centers, national research institutes, and other organizations, to be formed for the purpose of sharing information and resources in the natural sciences, technology, the…

This report focuses on the fiscal year 1987 activities of the Education Information Center (EIC), a service operated by the Georgia Department of Education. Designed for use by top public school administrators and consultants, the purpose of the EIC was to help them save time and do a more effective job by expanding their knowledge about…

This directory is intended to provide foreign language educators with a convenient reference guide containing information on the availability of resources and services that can help them enrich classroom instruction. It is meant to be useful as well to all persons who are concerned with the study or advancement of foreign languages and cultures.…

This first in a series of three papers on models for communicating and disseminating career education programs covers national and regional models. Focus is on four levels of dissemination: spread, exchange, choice, and implementation. First, common mechanisms for spread are described, such as newsletters, brochures and materials packets,…

A statewide study was conducted to assess the extent of services offered by Education Information Centers (EICs) in Ohio. The following four objectives guided the project activities: (1) to catalog, describe and analyze current statewide resources and services for providing educational information, guidance, counseling and referral services to all…

The purpose of this workshop was to investigate the problems the user faces in using a military library and to develop some methods of overcoming these problems. To provide balanced representation of both users and librarians, outside speakers contributed ideas that were discussed in group meetings. Each group discussed the same major topics,…

The 21-item annotated bibliography provides a comprehensive guide to resource materials, research findings, and developments related to information services and Mexican Americans. The materials, published between 1964 and 1974, are drawn from issues of "Resources in Education" (RIE) and "Current Index to Journals in Education"…

Activities of the final ten months of a 30-month project to establish a statewide information service network for Pennsylvania as a model for other states are reported and analyzed. Major objectives are said to have been accomplished with establishment of the network serving 468 local school districts through 24 intermediate units, and through…

Pertinent aspects of the U.S. Army Research and Development Information Program are delinated, including the program initiation bases and scope; purpose, objectives, and guidelines; value and benefits; basic concept; and project interrelationships. The specific projects described are: (1) Army Technical Library Improvement Studies; (2) Symposia…

The Northeast Academic Science Information Center (NASIC), a program of the New England Board of Higher Education which was initially funded by the National Science Foundation, represents an attempt to apply on a regional basis the concept of brokerage or wholesaling to the provision of computer-based information services. The center expects to be…

Using the case study approach, the Merrimack Education Center was examined (1) to test the linkage model developed by Ronald Havelock, (2) to provide a model description for the benefit of others who wished to duplicate the center's program, and (3) to provide feedback to the center itself. The study produced a thumbnail sketch of the center; a…

STITE (Scientific and Technical Information Transfer for Education) is basically a system to interface between science information and the science learner. As such STITE acts as a link between STIC (Science and Technology Information Centers) and LIS (Learning Information Systems). After an introduction to the goals and objectives of the ongoing…