This publication is intended to aid local public officials and interested citizens in planning how to best manage rapid population growth resulting from construction and/or development of new energy-related facilities. In particular, it discusses what the impact of an energy project on a community is likely to be, shares ideas for action based on…

Compiled to aid teachers and other professionals in surveying the research field, this publication lists sources which summarize research in reading. Reading Information Sources, the first of two general categories, lists entries under four headings: periodic research reviews; recurring reviews (general, elementary, secondary, college and adult,…

The focus of this booklet is on education for people over statutory schooling age. It explains full-time, part-time, sandwich study, and industrial training programs, and discusses the links between colleges and working life, qualifications, variety of opportunity, GCE studies in colleges, and fees and grants. It lists programs offered by the…

This unannotated bibliography, indexed by author, provides consumers of instructional materials with reliable information which could aid them in determining the appropriateness of a material. It is not concerned with any other aspect of evaluation. Articles written prior to 1970 are not included. Current Index to Journals in Education, Research…

This publication reports the practices of 46 livestock producers relating to their use of market news as reported in personal interviews made in September, 1969, in three counties in Illinois. The questionnaire provided for information for: volume of livestock, type, location, frequency of use of various media used to obtain livestock market news;…

The flow of knowledge from researchers to users is aided by knowledge linkers who activate the interpersonal network of communication within the target audience. The linker enters this network by contacting (through periodicals, mass media, conventions, and directly) individuals in the audience who are more active than others (gatekeepers). Once…

Focusing on the resources of an academic library (th University of California at Los Angeles, in this case), this booklet outlines and discusses a plan for conducting library research in preparing a term paper. Beginning with a section on books, in which the card catalogue is explained, the outline continues with sections on periodicals and…

The National Bureau of Standards is mechanizing a catalog of currently available information sources and services. Information from recent surveys of machine-readable, commercially-available bibliographic data bases, and the various current awareness, batch retrospective, and interactive retrospective services which can access them have been…

The text of an extended series of computer-mediated conversations makes up the body of this document. Discussion centers around the uses of computer networks as a new communication medium. Contributions were made by participants, who typed their informal comments into computer terminals, located at several places in the country. Because of the…

This document contains the proceedings of a conference on the general topic of labor market information, particulary the need to develop better methods, services, and subsystems for delivering such information. The source of the current concern for an adequate system of labor market information was the increased national interest in the optimum…

Since 1967 the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) Clearinghouses have produced a total of 1,514 information analysis products--bibliographies, literature reviews, state-of-the-art papers, evaluative summaries, and other special reports. This volume is a five-year cumulation of citations and abstracts of these ERIC Clearinghouses'…

The Design of Information Systems in the Social Sciences (DISISS) is a research project with the objective of carrying out research necessary for the effective design of information systems in the social sciences, whether by the creation of new systems or the modification of existing systems. This working paper reports the work to date on the…

This study evaluated the extent to which 386 instructors in the North Carolina Community College System (NCCCS) use certain modes of knowledge utilization, and the effectiveness thereof as seen by the NCCCS instructors. It also examined differences in mode use and effectiveness among vocational, technical, and college transfer instructors as well…

Census tapes are not a ready reference tool and must be supported by appropriate program tapes. However, census materials provide the single, most important sources of information and measures which, properly used, provide a better understanding of our society. In utilizing census products, librarians need to fill the role of a user, as well as…

Reference service is defined as the mediation by a librarian between the need structures of users and the structures of information resources. The general process by which reference librarians accomplish this is outlined as including the phases of question clarification, question translation, search strategy formulation, search execution, delivery…