The Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) is a federally funded, nationwide information network designed to provide users with ready access to education literature. The mission of the ERIC system is to improve American education by increasing and facilitating the use of educational research and information to improve practice in…

This document contains the enrollment application form and line-by-line instructions for subscribing to LincOn, a statewide network, administered by the Illinois State Board of Education, that allows public K-12 schools to access the Internet. An overview of LincOn and a checklist for implementing LincOn membership are also included. Appendices…

Digital materials are vulnerable to a number of different kinds of failures, including decay of the digital media, loss due to hackers and viruses, accidental deletions, natural disasters, and bankruptcy of the institution holding the collection. Digital archives can best survive failures if they have made several copies of their collections at…

The Handle System is a distributed computer system that stores names, or handles, of digital items and can quickly resolve those names into the information necessary to locate and access the items. It was designed by the Corporation for National Research Initiatives as a general purpose global system for the reliable management of information on…

The Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) network is described, with directions to assist educators in using the information retrieval system. Further assistance may be gained by writing to addresses given in the article, or by use of the ERIC Instruction Package for Vocational Educators of the CEDAR Catalog. Both are described. (AJ)

Discusses the new National Program of Library and Information Service recently issued by the NCLIS. (JB)

A discussion of computer networks for educational purposes, primarily for information storage and retrieval. (HB)

Cooperative efforts between Fort Detrick and various organizations over the past eight years and the consequences of these efforts are discussed. (26 references) (Authors)

Information overproduction and the lack of an adequate system for its storage and retrieval have frustrated integrative efforts and hindered orderly progress in the area of psychological testing. Describes a prototype repository system to handle and service the mass of information produced. (Authors)

The Technical Information Service of the National Research Council of Canada and several other information retrieval activities in Ottawa and elsewhere are components of a nation-wide network which is developing into a coherent Canadian Scientific and Technological Information Dissemination System. (21 references) (Author/NH)

PENNTAP, a Pennsylvania Technical Assistance Program administered by the Pennsylvania State University, is a statewide, nonduplicating technical information network designed to aid business, industry, and government agencies in receiving technical and scientific information. (DS)

The University of Georgia Information Dissemination Center is profiled. Emphasis is on the organization and services of the system which primarily serves 27 state supported schools in Georgia. Based on a recent survey, the impact of the service on the users is discussed. (DH)

Discussion of Chicago's closed circuit television which is used to show children various aspects of reality and present different opinions of famous people. (AF)