Outlines how a good preventive maintenance program can be scheduled and followed up to insure that the inspections have been performed. Both manually operated and computerized preventive maintenance programs are discussed. (MLF)

Emphasizes the importance of a center profile description for management and planning in school media centers and presents a sample profile which describes the organizational units, floor plan, and available media and services. Some types of techniques which have been devised to assist in this process are listed. (CMV)

In many poor rural and urban school districts, aging buildings suffer dangerous deficiencies, without a sufficient tax base to fund improvements. President Clinton unveiled a $5 billion initiative that would fund a four-year repair and construction project for public schools; however, the plan must make its way through Congress. (MLF)

Although cataloging, document delivery, inventory, barcoding, and other technical jobs might more effectively be done by outside contractors, managing a library and serving patrons demands the attention of information professionals. Discusses the shortcomings of outsourcing, focusing on companies and associations that outsource the entire…

This report responds to a proposal for an internal audit of the library collection at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) and describes various measures that University Library Services (ULS) has already implemented to automate the inventory process and improve security. Introductory materials provide an executive summary and background…

This report purports to delineate the process used in studying the facilities of the District of Columbia Public Schools, present analyses of all available data pertinent to the approved board of education criteria for studying schools, present the recommendations of nine study groups, and make recommendations on phasings and closings based on…

As a first step towards resource sharing among libraries in the Cleveland Area Metropolitan Library System (CAMLS), a unique method, called the Site Appraisal for Area Resources Inventory (SAFARI), was developed to examine the library collections. This approach was different than others in that collections were compared by experts in a specific…

Computers are currently being used to perform medical tasks such as: (1) taking medical histories; (2) patient care and health-unit care management; (3) clinical and laboratory work; (4) physiological signal monitoring; and (5) multiphasic screening. In a survey of over 200 institutions, over 339 computer language applications were found, many of…

A report on a study of the use of space facilities in universities in England is mainly concerned with the methodology involved in the study. An extensive appendix provides information on 24 different technical aspects of the study. (FPO)

A long range plan is presented explaining how the Lorado Taft Field Campus of NIU might be most effectively used and how the resource might be best developed to serve the students. Idealized positions applicable to the development of the campus and the use and conservation of its resources are considered. Proposals for land use and facility…

This manual is basically a procedural outline to assist local school officials in developing and organizing a meaningful school property accounting system to comply with generally accepted governmental accounting principles. A list of references concerned with property accounting is included. (FS)

This report provides--(1) institution, campus, and enrollment data, (2) gross or general building characteristics data, (3) interior or net assignable space data, and (4) derived data--certain data calculations such as net/gross space ratios, and gross and net assignable space per full-time equivalent student. (FS)

Present school plant problems of the Monroe County School system in Florida are reported in this document. The survey which revealed these problems also stimulated projection of building needs through 1970-71. Factors taken into consideration were school size, temporary buildings, portable buildings, pupil stations, desirable pupil capacity,…

This monograph describes the basic conceptual background, the content, and the processes of a systematized approach to the evaluation of educational facilities. The system, the Evaluation of Educational Buildings (MEEB), focuses on a process that compares existing educational buildings in terms of a set of standards, and provides for an analysis…

This report represents the first component of a 3-year comprehensive planning study of longrange facilities needs of institutions of higher education, mandated by Congress in the "Higher Education Amendments of 1966." A manual provided institutions with a common method of defining and measuring space. Each room of every campus building…