A description of the National Center for Scientific and Technical Documentation, Brussels. (JG)

These notes are intended for working scientists who wish to set up and operate Specialized Information Centers to serve their own specialized areas of science. Their purpose is to set out the different tasks to be performed and the decisions that must be taken, to discuss the problems of Center operation and to suggest some of the solutions. This…

A humorous account is given of a typical day at the San Mateo Educational Resources Center (SMERC), which provides information services to educators in 23 California Counties and parts of seven other states. (JPF)

Describes the various services and range of materials of the North Carolina Foreign Language Center and discusses its origin and development. (EKN)

The Women's History Research Center publishes and distributes publications, most of which serve a clearinghouse function of directing librarians to small press and ephemeral publications by people who are active in the women's movement. (Author/NH)

An important function of an industrial information center is to control, not multiply, the reading problem by selective use of available commercial services. When necessary, and economically feasible, specialized internal services are developed. Some of these services are described. (6 references) (Author)

Describes the use of word processors for catalog card production, bulletin production, printouts of technical service data, and specialized bibliography printouts in the Energy Economics Group of Arthur D. Little, Inc. (FM)

This article is a case study of the Virtual Business Information Center (VBIC), a collaborative effort since 1998 of the College of Information Studies, Robert H. Smith School of Business, and the University of Maryland Libraries. The case study traces its development, implementation, and evaluation and addresses collaboration among academic…

This article is about how information is gathered in organizations to make decisions. There is actually a long history in economics on this topic, called the "economics of information," but this is a bare beginning on the topic for libraries, suggesting only a few patterns from observation and a few literatures that might help with the challenge.…

An automated Centre for Scientific and Technical Information has been set up within the Bulgarian Central Institute for Scientific and Technical Information, with United Nations Development Programme assistance and with Unesco as executing agency for the project. (Author)

Some sources of information on scientific and technical data centers are mentioned, and recent publications of a few federally supported data centers in physical sciences are listed. (Author/PF)

This article discusses educational information dissemination systems and questions whether dissemination and utilization are communication problems or information seeker's problems. (PD)