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Thomas, George B. – Saturday Rev, 1969
From the monthly Saturday Review supplement, "Education in America, sponsored by the Charles F. Kettering Foundation.
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Centralization, Decentralization, Decision Making
Reardon, Francis J. – 1981
Initial efforts to collect data on the impact of Elementary Secondary Education Act Title I programs began in Pennsylvania in 1972. Due to the frequent turnover of local education agency (LEA) staff responsible for Title I impact reports and the fact that a study of the accuracy of reported scores revealed that some sort of errors appeared in…
Descriptors: Centralization, Data Analysis, Data Processing, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textVANN, SARAH K. – 1967
THIS STUDY IS CONCERNED WITH CENTRALIZED PROCESSING--NAMELY, THE ORDERING, CATALOGING, CLASSIFICATION, AND PHYSICAL PREPARATION OF LIBRARY MATERIALS, WHATEVER THE FORMAT, IN THE LIBRARIES OF THE PHILADELPHIA LIBRARY DISTRICT. DATA FROM QUESTIONNAIRES SENT TO THE LIBRARIES OF THE DISTRICT WAS ANALYZED TO DETERMINE THE FEASIBILITY OF ESTABLISHING A…
Descriptors: Book Catalogs, Cataloging, Centralization, Classification
MCKEAN, ROLAND N. – 1965
SUGGESTED COSTS AND BENEFITS OF CENTRALIZED AUTHORITY IN HIGHER EDUCATION AS THEY AFFECT THE BEHAVIOR OF LEGISLATORS, ADMINISTRATORS, VOTERS, TEACHERS, AND STUDENTS, WERE EXAMINED BY COMPARING POLICIES OF DIFFERENT INSTITUTIONS (TWO MULTIVERSITIES OR COORDINATED STATE COLLEGE SYSTEMS, TWO RELATIVELY INDEPENDENT PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES IN ONE STATE,…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Administrator Guides, Centralization, College Administration
Walker, William G. – 1980
This paper summarizes and analyzes the views presented in the preceding group of five papers, focusing on important issues in educational administration in four countries. The author notes that the developed countries discussed (England, Canada, and Australia) all face the problems of declining student numbers, decreasing birth rates, public…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Centralization, Comparative Education, Cultural Pluralism
Nelson Associates, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1966
THIS SURVEY WAS CONDUCTED TO DETERMINE--(1) THE OPTIMUM NUMBER OF PROCESSING CENTERS FOR THE NEW YORK STATE LIBRARY SYSTEMS AND (2) THE BEST METHOD FOR DEVELOPING CATALOGS FOR THE LIBRARIES. MAJOR FINDINGS WERE--THAT CATALOGING DIFFERENCES AMONG THE SYSTEMS WERE NOT GREAT, THERE WAS A CURVILINEAR RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE NUMBER OF ITEMS PROCESSED…
Descriptors: Automation, Book Catalogs, Cataloging, Centralization
Little (Arthur D.), Inc., Cambridge, MA. – 1967
The conclusions of this report are (1) that elementary and secondary public and private school libraries in New York would benefit greatly from a centralized book processing and cataloging center and (2) that school library centralized processing should be coordina"ed with either the public libraries or the university libraries in the state.…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Centralization, College Libraries, Feasibility Studies
Leonard, Lawrence E.; And Others – 1968
This report summarizes the results of a fourteen-month study to (1) examine the feasibility of establishing a book processing center to serve the nine state-supported college and university libraries in Colorado and (2) conduct a simulation study of the proposed Center. The report covers: background, operational characteri tics of participating…
Descriptors: Automation, Centralization, College Libraries, Cost Effectiveness
Little (Arthur D.), Inc., Cambridge, MA. – 1968
A study was conducted to examine the basic concepts of the Orlando Processing Center and its state-wide goals, followed by recommendations for a future course of action. The report is divided into three parts--a survey of public libraries in the area, a study of the Orlando Processing Center, and an examination of processing needs in Florida, with…
Descriptors: Automation, Centralization, College Libraries, Library Cooperation
Flambert, Richard – 1975
A food-systems consultant and designer advises school districts that want prosperous food service programs to adopt big-business methods. Successful commercial operations hire top food-service consultants and designers to get the most from their space, equipment, and labor. Commercial enterprises are concerned with efficient utilization of plant…
Descriptors: Breakfast Programs, Centralization, Consultants, Cost Effectiveness
American Association of School Administrators, Washington, DC. – 1969
Responses from inquiries to the superintendents of 32 urban school systems across the country provided the basis for classifying and evaluating modes of decentralization and extent of community control. Main features of the school systems' operations are reported under nine categories: (1) decentralized decision making with centralized…
Descriptors: Administrators, Bibliographies, Boards of Education, Centralization
Reichmann, Felix; And Others – 1965
The purpose of this study was to "survey the library resources in the eight Mid-Hudson Counties of Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan, and Ulster in order to develop a plan of service in which assets would be shared, resources developed, and services extended." Survey data were collected by six questionnaires;…
Descriptors: Centralization, College Libraries, Library Cooperation, Library Networks
Sherman, Don; Shoffner, Ralph M. – 1969
The scope of the California State Library-Processing Center (CSL-PC) project is to develop the design and specifications for a computerized technical processing center to provide services to a network of participating California libraries. Immediate objectives are: (1) retrospective conversion of card catalogs to a machine-form data base,…
Descriptors: Automation, Book Catalogs, Cataloging, Centralization
Oliver, Donald W.; Newmann, Fred M. – 1968
See TE 499 864, above.
Descriptors: Centralization, Citizenship Responsibility, Interests, Legal Problems
Columbia Univ., New York, NY. Network Project. – 1974
An analysis is presented of the dangers generated by the corporate ownership of a satellite communications technology powerful enough to centralize and control the flow of information. The first part of the report reprints the transcript of a radio documentary on satellite communications, one of a series of five MATRIX radio programs produced by…
Descriptors: Centralization, Certification, Communications, Communications Satellites
