The Educational Research Information Center (ERIC) is an educational information retrieval system. ERIC represents a decentralized, nationwide network of information Clearinghouses. Each Clearinghouse has its own area of subject specialization and retrieval responsibility, and is committed to acquiring, abstracting, indexing, storing, retrieving, and disseminating nationally the most significant educational research and relevant, useful documents pertaining to that area. One of these Clearinghouses is the Clearinghouse on Rural Education and Small Schools (CRESS). CRESS is responsible for materials pertaining to rural education and/or small schools. This newsletter, a publication of CRESS focuses on the role CRESS plays in the ERIC system. Topics discussed are: the Clearinghouse's immediate goal, acquisition of documents, indexing, document storage, and dissemination. (NQ)