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Download full textNetwork Planning Paper, 1983
At a 2-day meeting in October 1982, the Library of Congress Network Advisory Committee (NAC) members discussed the complex issues involved in public and private sector interactions and their relationship to networking activities. The report, "Public Sector/Private Sector Interaction in Providing Information Services," prepared by the…
Descriptors: Government Role, Information Networks, Information Services, Interaction
Inter-American Development Inst., Washington, DC. – 1982
With the selection of the role of the media in development education activities as the theme for the meeting, the Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid (ACVFA) continued its dialogue with the private and voluntary organizations (PVO) community on the crucial issue of educating the U.S. public about hunger and related international…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Fund Raising, Hunger, International Organizations
Ecosometrics, Inc., Bethesda, MD. – 1985
This report reviews key issues and problems addressed at a national conference on transportation for the elderly and handicapped. The first section presents an executive summary, which details the following major problems (identified in the seven general sessions and four workshops): the need for more coordination of funding sources; better…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Agency Role, Disabilities, Federal Government
Lightman, Marjorie, Ed.; Zeisel, William, Ed. – 1981
Proceedings of a conference on independent research institutions and scholarly life in the 1980s, which was sponsored by the Institute for Research in History, are presented. Summaries of workshops and the general session transcript are presented along with an introductory essay. A working papers essay is also included to delineate the major areas…
Descriptors: Ethics, Financial Support, Higher Education, Humanities
White, Leigh Cree, Ed. – 1981
The proceedings of a conference designed to promote local planning and implementation of energy programs are summarized. The objectives of the program were to: (1) create a consciousness for local energy planning; (2) provide frameworks, tools, and techniques for local energy planning; and (3) define and clarify energy goals for the implementation…
Descriptors: Adults, Community Action, Community Planning, Community Programs
Cerva, John R.; And Others – Optical Information Systems, 1986
Eight papers cover: optical storage technology; cross-cultural videodisc design; optical disk technology use at the Library of Congress Research Service and National Library of Medicine; Internal Revenue Service image storage and retrieval system; solving business problems with CD-ROM; a laser disk operating system; and an optical disk for…
Descriptors: Business, Databases, Design, Evaluation
Berul Associates, Ltd., Rockville, MD. – 1987
The conference on "Support for Family Caregivers" reported in this document was designed to identify, encourage the development of, and disseminate information about effective approaches for strengthening the capacity of families to care for their impaired relatives. The first of two presentations in the opening plenary session reviews the needs…
Descriptors: Community Services, Delivery Systems, Developmental Disabilities, Family Problems
Daval, Nicola, Ed. – 1987
This document begins by presenting the text of "Technology & U.S. Government Information Policies: Catalysts for New Partnerships," which is the third report of the Task Force on Government Information in Electronic Format. Topics covered by the report include the impact of technology, private sector roles and government…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Depository Libraries, Electronic Publishing, Federal Government
Katzki, Kate – 1978
A symposium addressing the needs of uprooted migrant and refugee children and the role of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in meeting those needs took place at Wingspread, Racine, Wisconsin in November, 1978. Uprooted children are those migrant and refugee children who have lost their identity as the result of being forced, for socioeconomic,…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Agency Role, Conferences, Cultural Isolation
Institutional Library Consultants, Carson City, NV. – 1979
The role of the institutional library consultant is explored in these proceedings of a workshop examining consultant work with administrators of various agencies, funding sources for institutional library service programs, management, and such aspects of library service areas in institutions as architecture, design, utilization of space,…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrator Role, Community Organizations, Conference Reports
McManus, Marilyn C., Ed.; Friesen, Barbara J., Ed. – 1986
The Families as Allies Conference was held to promote collaborative working relationships between professionals and parents of seriously emotionally handicapped children and adolescents, at the case level as well as the service delivery system level. This working conference was designed to involve equal numbers of parents and professionals,…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Cooperative Planning, Counseling Services, Counselor Client Relationship
Youth Employment--The Link to the Future. Conference Report (3d, Washington, D.C. June 13-14, 1979).
National Assembly of National Voluntary Health and Social Welfare Organizations, New York, NY. – 1979
This report describes the third conference on Youth Employment sponsored by the National Collaboration for Youth (NCY) held in Washington, D.C., June 13-14, 1979. An introduction adresses the realities of youth unemployment. NCY goals are then presented. Opening day proceedings summarized include the opening speech; three presentations dealing…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Agency Cooperation, Agency Role, Business Responsibility
Gwinn, Nancy E.; And Others – Information Reports and Bibliographies, 1988
Provides summaries of five Federal Library and Information Center Committee annual forums on federal information policies (1984-1988). Topics covered include information resources management issues; concerns of librarians and information specialists; the implementation of information policies; and the impact of policies on international flows of…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Federal Government, Freedom of Information, Government Publications
