ACCESS outreach identified more persons in need of service who met the Title XIX eligibility requirements. Home care emphasis provided the opportunity for increasing proportions to remain at home or return to their home from the hospital. (Author)

Suggestions are given for improving speed, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness of postal service for institutional mailings such as publications. Delivery times, postal service administration, rate increases, and postal priorities are outlined. (MSE)

Describes the application of teleconferencing and videotape in a regional inter-university series of training programs for students studying developmental disabilities. Five references are cited. (FM)

Analyzes the real operating costs of child care centers providing quality care in order to establish a model from which funding agencies and child administrators can plan and evaluate budgets to enhance the quality of child care. (Author/MP)

A study focusing on the current practices in Australian colleges of advanced education with respect to the management of teaching personnel is reported. Issues considered include: methodology currently used in the allocation of teaching personnel resources, and the number and type of personnel utilized and the correlation of academic staffing.…

This examination of the acquisitions services offered by networks, the not-for-profit bibliographic services, stresses significant characteristics inherent in their structure and functions, and contrasts advantages and disadvantages for individual libraries. (Author/RAA)

New strategies for allocating limited resources to achieve maximum program effectiveness in times of declining enrollments coupled with inflation are discussed. A model for resource allocation is proposed and a case study presented. (Author/SF)

Describes a study undertaken at the Mary Couts Library of Texas Christian University that determined whether subscription costs of Science Citation Index and Social Science Citation Index were greater than the cost of offering free computer searches of these indexes. User satisfaction was also measured. The evaluation form is included. (Author/JD)

This two-part article indicates some probable characteristics of the microelectronics in the future and assesses implications of the microelectronics revolution for the methods and systems currently used in teaching and training. (CMV)

A school computer network at the Carlsbad Unified School District (California) has computerized student attendance records, registration, and school accounting. (Author/MLF)

The Peoria Public Schools' medical self-insurance program has cut administrative overhead in half. Details of the program are examined. (MLF)

Reducing educational services, including community education activities, does not appear to be an effective method of reducing energy consumption. (Author)

The first logical step in school energy conservation is a review of annual operation and maintenance procedures to identify cost-saving opportunities. (Author/MLF)

A $2.3 million renovation that concentrated on mechanical systems and windows helped cut fuel consumption 30 percent at a Pennsylvania junior high school. One of the objectives of the project was the creation of three separate minischools for the three grade levels assigned to the facility. (Author/MLF)

Comparison of 14 different distance teaching projects showed that the projects and their costs are reasonably comparable. Methods of cost analysis are discussed, and conclusions reached on seven aspects of the economics of distance teaching are summarized. (JEG)