These guidelines for library services designed to meet the particular needs of older adults cover special library materials, outreach programs, utilization of older adults as volunteers and employees, relationships with other agencies, and including this population in library planning and resource allocations. (CLB)

Examined models for predicting treatment decisions of physicians, nurses, and social workers within acute and long-term care settings. Elicited treatment choices to vignettes regarding decisions to allocate scarce medical resource and to withhold treatment from debilitated patient. Primarily medical factors predicted decision to allocate…

Reports the results of a survey of Nigerian agricultural libraries and documentation centers that examined budgeting techniques. The factors examined include who prepares budgets, the basis of cost estimates, establishment of goals and planning guidelines, criteria for funding approval, and maintenance of financial records. Common problems are…

The author presents results from a survey of organizations in the United States with 100 or more employees, regarding their spending on formal training of their employees. The national investment in employer-sponsored training remained fairly constant. About 68 percent of training dollars paid for training staff salaries. (CH)

Resource mechanisms that coordinate school systems are loosely structured. Three resources are examined for effects on teaching and learning reading in the first grade: time allocation, curricular materials, and array of students in schools and classrooms. Administrative decisions on resource allocation constrain teachers' use of resources, which…

Outlines how the state of North Dakota is developing a system for incorporating the revenue from the coal and petroleum industries into the tax base for local school support as part of an equalization plan for supporting basic services during a depressed economic period. (MD)

Argues that geographic studies, especially local patterns of production and land use, must appear in a larger perspective. States that the problem is how to link local geographies with a complex, internationalized, global, political economy. Examines the problem in discussions of food and famine, ecological degradation, and population growth in…

Low-cost consumer videocassette recorders (VCRs) are used to view copies of educational films in Baltimore, Maryland, schools. Contracts with suppliers secure rights to educational programs and provide videotapes in quantities of from 25 to 100 copies for each title. Federal block grants helped finance the VCR purchases. (MLF)

Modern scientific management techniques provide college administrators with valuable planning and resource allocation insights and enhances the decision process. The planning model should incorporate assessment, strategic planning, dynamic and long-term budgeting, operational planning, and feedback and control for actual operations. (MSE)

The procedures and effects of the reallocation of vacant teaching posts as a response to economic constraints in Finland's higher education system and as a method of carrying out national educational resource policy are examined. Two institutions are described. (MSE)

Examined (1) whether educational opportunity programs (EOP) designed for disadvantaged students were proactive or reactive in their responses to students' needs, (2) whether institutions "institutionalized" this support by providing funds from the base budget, and (3) the degree of institutional funding before and after Federal monies were made…

Designing a cost planning requires attention to the external environment, as well as an understanding of the relative influence of facts, as opposed to values, in resource allocation processes. A context for selecting design characteristics of a planning process is established. (MLW)

Argues that effective college management depends upon the budget implementing the important values of the institution. Suggests a model integrating strategic and operational planning and resource allocation. (AYC)

A decentralized administrative environment can help ensure the effective allocation of resources through particpative decision making. The decentralized structure at Washburn University is described along with how it helps integrate the planning and budgeting process and the effectiveness of the resulting resource allocations. (MLW)

This discussion of the cost efficient allocation of time in public libraries highlights time as a "fee," the cost of time, time and public library use, Sunday hours and time, cost of Sunday hours, the flextime factor, and use of Sunday hours. Eight sources are given. (EJS)