This document is part of a series designed to help adult home economics education supervisors and instructors meet the consumer-homemaking needs of the low-income adult learner. The information contained in this part provides idea starters for developing ways to make more effective instructional presentations. Various methods and techniques…

The National Referral Center (NRC) and its many services to the scientific and technical community are discussed in some detail as a preamble to a proposal of a cooperative arrangement between NRC and the American Geological Institute (AGI), its supporting societies, and all geoscientists in a combined effort to enlarge and maintain a…

The Information and Referral (I&R) Service of the Health and Welfare Council of Central Maryland, Inc. is a threefold operation. First, it is a professional casework service in providing its clients information on, and referral to, appropriate community services in the health, welfare, recreation, employment, education, and related human service…

This volume is intended to serve as a guide to the literature and other sources of information related to the study and teaching of reading. Source materials cited include dictionaries, handbooks, guides, directories, bibliographies, recurring reviews, abstracting and indexing publications, journals, conference proceedings, associations, and…

This publication lists, by major institution, 32 population information resources in the United States. Each entry provides name and location of center or library, person in charge; date established; number of staff; size of collection and acquisition rate; area of specialization; publications circulated; services offered, and whether or not the…

A Study of the relationship between the primary and secondary journal literature of a social science discipline is described in this working paper. Criminology was chosen as the subject area for study, because it forms a fairly clearly identifiable area of the social sciences, is fairly self-contained, and because it has some distinctive…

This issue of Communique has its lead article on campus unrest and its resolution in schools of changing ethnic composition. It also contains a description of a drug program which utilizes a puppet show. The regular features of the publication include write-ups on current happenings in the counseling field in addition to research abstracts from…

This revised directory of the information sources in the DDC Referral Data Bank (previously issued in October 1970 as AD-712 800 and in July 1971 as AD-724 700) consists of a compilation of computer printouts, each of which gives for a single activity detailed descriptive information on the mission, scope and services provided. Arrangement is by…

This bibliography on career education is divided into four sections: (1) selected references on career education, listing key documents focusing on the concept of career education; (2) journal articles, listing various articles from periodicals dealing with the career education concept and some of its components; (3) background references related…

The annual reports published by American private foundations give comprehensive information to grant-seeking researchers. The Foundation Center has compiled a directory of the names and addresses of the approximately 397 out of 25,000 foundations which publish annual reports. They have also reproduced some l,304 reports on microfiche. This…

Operating in a pilot region, Project Communicate established a comprehensive educational information system to support the adoption of innovative instructional practices in classrooms. It provided field consultants, individualized information service and information processing units in the state education agency (SEA). It provided for two major…

The article argues that pending federal legislation extending life of copyrights on written materials and instituting harsh penalties for violations of copyright law will inhibit teachers and others who use such materials for non-profit information dissemination. (CD)

Describes the SOCRATES Computer-Assisted Test Retrieval system available to the faculty and students of the California State University and Colleges. (Author/IRT)

Describes the expediency of searching the ERIC data base by computer. (MKM)

Represents an expansion of the 1977 United States reply to UNESCO's annual questionnaire that solicits information from each country for its bimonthly "Bibliography, Documentation, Terminology." Included are a National Bibliography, divided into media categories; current bibliographies, listed by subject; and a bibliography of…