This issue of the Emergency Response and Crisis Management (ERCM) Technical Assistance Center's "ERCMExpress" introduces the National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities (NCEF), a free public service that provides information on planning, designing, funding, building, improving and maintaining safe, healthy, high-performance schools. NCEF is…

This paper highlights some of the various resource centers that are involved with the exchange of noncomputerized data concerned with higher education. These centers are involved with the collection and dissemination of papers, exchange of ideas, and identification of knowledgeable people that can aid institutions in finding solutions to some of…

The Master Technical Plan is divided into the following four main parts: (1) "Indroduction." (2) "A Description of the Proposed National Medical Retardation Information and Resource Center (NMRIRC)," consists of a series of descriptions of how the national center will serve its various organizational and individual…

Describes the development, operation, and evaluation of a nutrition information/resource center that operates within a university setting and provides training for nutrition education students while assisting educators and consumers. (JN)

Describes the "Service Culturel" of the French Embassy in Bonn, and the Instituts Francais, which, in 20 West German cities, offer various courses. They are also centers of information, offering various materials for loan, counseling, entertainment, etc. A list of addresses is added. (Text is in French.) (IFS/WGA)

The Resource Center at the Appalachia Educational Laboratory (AEL), Inc., provides direct services to clients both within and outside AEL, as well as serving as a repository and distribution center for educational materials. Three main objectives were identified: to discover the extent to which staff use current components of the Resource Center;…

Discusses the concept and organization of the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) with emphasis on current and planned services provided by the center. (DE)

This directory lists resources on productivity in the following major areas: (1) sources on productivity and worklife information; (2) information resources for productivity research; and (3) publications of the National Center for Productivity and Quality of Working Life. (Author/JLL)

The development of resource centers as aids to education should not obscure their usefulness as parish resources. (RC)

The European Centre for Higher Education (CEPES) in Bucharest is described, beginning with the role of higher education in national development and also considering regional cooperation, CEPES' functions, support to decision-makers, and ongoing and special activities related to information, documentation, and liaison. (Author/LBH)

Describes the services and resources of the San Mateo Educational Resources Center (SMERC) and presents the results of a survey of linking agents operating within SMERC contracts, including findings about their organizational settings, educational backgrounds, marketing activities, and perceptions about the usefulness of the service. (FM)

Describes an organization called Science and Technology Information Sources for Teachers (SATIS) which makes available to teachers abstracts from over 200 journals on a regular basis and abstracts of project work to enable the project to be used elsewhere. (GS)

The creation, mission, and activities of the Swiss national educational information center are described. (DE)

The ten articles which comprise this collection are intended to stimulate creative thinking about ways to improve existing educational media selection centers and to develop new ones. The authors share their professional judgments about how to organize, staff, administer and equip centers, how to use them to evaluate media, and how they work as…