A six-month grant was made with Title I Higher Education Act funds from the Office of Human Relations Programs and matching funds from the University of Maryland's College of Library and Information Services to assess the feasibility of and develop plans for a special information center to serve student, faculty and staff women on the College Park…

Since 1967 the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) Clearinghouses have produced a total of 1,514 information analysis products--bibliographies, literature reviews, state-of-the-art papers, evaluative summaries, and other special reports. This volume is a five-year cumulation of citations and abstracts of these ERIC Clearinghouses'…

The purpose of this inventory is to list a number of "major" information services and systems in the field of science and technology, either in the government or in the private sector. If a distinction is made between traditional information systems such as libraries, documentation services etc., and the wide spectrum of mechanized…

The objectives of this study were to submit all the information necessary for making a decision on the establishment of a comprehensive materials data bank for West Germany. The problems investigated were: determination of the present state of the art, examination of a number of systems and other resources existing in the subject, site visits to…

The planning, design, development and field testing of an instructional system for the training of educational disseminators/evaluators who are named "Educational Information Consultants" is reported. A modular training program is described covering the acquisition of knowledge, skills, and attitudes required to perform effectively in…

A good resource file will enable information and referral (I & R) center personnel to serve requests for information quickly and correctly. This is especially important for centers which are staffed by non-professionals, volunteers, and part-time people. The proper resource file has three important qualities: (1) it is complete (it includes…

The specific purpose of interviewing in an information and referral (I & R) Center is to obtain whatever information is necessary about the person's problems in order to link him to the community provision most relevant to it. Chapter 1 in this manual discusses what is involved in interviewing and information-giving in an I & R Center. What takes…

This bibliography of educational materials lists approximately 100 publications recently acquired by the Colombian National Center for Documentation and Educational Information. The entries are listed according to subject matter; topics range from general educational theory to more specific subject topics. (VM)

Libraries must be aware of the needs of the users in their funding organization, and yet, there is growing concern among library funding organizations that libraries are not fully coping with the information explosion. In fact, libraries, by not adopting new techniques to become more productive, are actually helping to cause the problems of the…

The fifth annual bibliography of Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) Clearinghouse publications reflects the information analysis activities of each clearinghouse for Fiscal Year 1971. This is an annual bibliography of those publications of the ERIC Clearinghouses which reflect information analysis activities. In addition to the…

A methodology for categorically describing computer-based information systems was developed and applied to six university-based, NSF-supported systems. The systems under study all operate as retail information cneters primarily serving campus communities by accessing large commercially-available data bases using 3rd generation computer…

The development of an integrated national plan of information services is the topic of the provisional final report of the seminar which is in Spanish. The accompanying five-page declaration, conclusions and recommendations, in English, implicitly include concepts which will permit the drawing up of a national information policy. The Seminar…

This report describes the operations of the Pacific Northwest Bibliographic Center (PNBC) which is located at the University of Washington's Library in Seattle. The Center's Union Catalog contains bibliographic citations for 1,778,000 different titles held by 45 libraries in the Pacific Northwest. The Union Catalog is supplemented by microfilm…

There are three phases in the development of new drugs aimed at determining adverse reactions or side effects. Each of these phases produces many different pieces of information. All of this leads to a major problem involving the professional/industrial and/or academic libraries serving the scientific-medical community through their information…

The role of an international clearinghouse or archive in controlling information on stolen art, the problems that must be solved in order to organize such an archive, and the rules that might be established to ensure the full international cooperation needed for its success are examined. (JMD)