Information analysis centers (IACs) represent a valuable national resource which has not been fully utilized, often because their products and services are not widely known. Recent Government economy measures demand consideration of increased marketability of these products and services and the institution of service charges as a possible source…

The purpose of advocacy in an information and referral (I & R) center is to obtain service for older people where such service is not now available to them or is non-existent. This is related to the center's mission of linking older people and services together. Advocacy at the case level is concerned with individuals who have not received the…

Chapter 1 discusses what outreach is, why this service is needed and what it can do. Chapter 2, is concerned with outreach personnel including a job description, recruitment, selection, salary, working hours, training and supervision. Chapter 3 covers how to select the outreach service area, making canvassing assignments and pre-canvassing…

The main objective of the conference was to explore methods for close and fruitful cooperation between the region's documentation centers. The conference was held to establish closer contacts between the documentation center staffs, to expand in-service training, and promote information and personnel exchange. The conference is considered to be an…

The major objective of the IITRI Computer Search Center is to educate and link industry, academia, and government institutions to chemical and other scientific information systems and sources. The Center was developed to meet this objective and is in full operation providing services to users from a variety of machine-readable data bases with…

Information centers exist to provide information from machine-readable data bases to users in industry, universities and other organizations. The computer Search Center of the IIT Research Institute was designed with a number of variables and uncertainties before it. In this paper, the author discusses how the Center was designed to enable it to…

The Mechanized Information Center (MIC) at Ohio State University conducts retrospective and current awareness searches using data bases for agriculture, chemistry, education, psychology, and social sciences, as well as a multidisciplinary data base. Described in the report are the history and background of MIC, the data bases, information…

Anyone interested in children's literature should know about the services of the Office of Education's Educational Materials Center and its unique collection of text and trade books, past and present. (Editor)

Summarizes presentations on profitability in the information industry from the viewpoints of producers, who have to have a reason to be in business, and users, whose businesses are often driven by the information they can access and the price of that information. (Author/CLB)

Discusses the design and organization of the Automated Information Centre, a centralized automated scientific and technical information service established within the main organ of Bulgaria's National System for Scientific and Technical Information, with UNESCO and United Nations Development Program assistance. Problems and perspectives for…

Examines the justification of a national information system in Zambia. Highlights include a definition of information; types of information and forms in which it is produced, organized, and transmitted; relevance of information resources to Zambia; need for a national information policy; and the role of existing information centers. Footnotes are…

Search procedures and techniques used by the Center staff are described; the computerized information systems and traditional resources used and types of search requests received are delineated. (Author/JB)

A survey of the information resources and dissemination techniques now available is presented which, it is hoped, will stimulate the use and further expansion of similar efforts in other fields of education. (5 references) (NH)