Reviews the studies on interlibrary loan conducted under the auspices of the Association for Research Libraries, assesses the proposals which have been recommended, and discusses some of the unresolved issues. (Author/PF)

This paper reviews the promotion of literacy and the development of library services in the multinational, multilingual republics of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics since the October Revolution as a model for state or regionally centralized services that promote local arrangements while serving a single national purpose in multiethnic and…

This illustrated booklet for delegates provides a very brief overview of the White House Conference on Families (WHCF). Contents include a welcoming statement by the conference chairperson, a review of preconference activities leading up to the conference, and lists of conference goals and themes. Officers of the conference as well as WHCF staff…

This report on the White House Conference on Families (WHCF) was prepared by the J.C. Penney Company for corporate leaders. Background information on the WHCF, issues related to families and work, a depiction of the changing work force, and policy recommendations are included in the report. Recommendations focus on flextime, flexible leave…

This report to the President of the United States presents a summary of the planning, proceedings, and resolutions of the White House Conference on Library and Information Services. Questions the delegates addressed to the conference included: Do libraries, the traditional storehouses of information and knowledge, have a place in this fast moving…

Until 1980 online information retrieval and dissemination services were for the most part based in the United States. Today, however, a variety of information services as well as packet-switched networks are emerging in other countries. Although U.S. developed software still predominates in overall use, activity in Europe and other countries is…

This paper examines the need for accurate, reliable data on energy, flowing upward to the national government from various energy-intensive information systems. Part I explores the need for a national policy coordinating this flow within both the United States and, for comparative purposes, Great Britain. Part II presents in outline form the…

This final Bulletin of the National Institute reviews the activities it has sponsored since June 1966. Major articles report the four Student/Beginning Teacher Conferences to evolve recommendations for new conceptual models of teacher education; the Conference on New Curriculum Materials and the Teaching of the Disadvantaged; the Professors in the…

THE DIRECTORATE OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION, SET UP IN 1955, WAS GIVEN THE SPECIFIC DUTY OF TRAINING TECHNICIANS NEEDED FOR DEVELOPING INDUSTRY AND HANDICRAFTS. THE PROBLEMS OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION IN 1955 WERE--(1) THERE WERE ONLY TWO TECHNICAL SCHOOLS AND TWO APPRENTICE SCHOOLS, THREE APPLIED ARTS SCHOOLS, AND SEVEN ATELIER ECOLES (ARTISTS' OR…

Established by Congressional Act in 1950, the National Science Foundation (NSF) is charged with a variety of responsibilities in the areas of education, research, applications of research, data gathering, and information dissemination. The foundation is governed by an appointed director and a national board and is primarily funded by the federal…

The problems and possibilities involved in developing a national Right-to-Read program are discussed in this book, and it is argued that there is no one reading problem but rather a series of reading problems calling for a wide variety of responses. The report begins with a definition and a diagnosis of the national reading problems, a national…

A hypothetical model is given for a National Serials Data System based on the best educated guesses of what the system should do and how, therefore, it should function. The model focuses attention on the ultimate goal rather than on the decision-making processes relating to choice of data elements, unique identification codes, etc. This conceptual…