Intended for use by parents of children and youth with handicaps, the guide offers basic information on accessing the ERIC bibliographic database and publications. Answers are provided to the following questions: what is ERIC?; where are the resources?; why use the ERIC system?; what's in the ERIC system?; and how do you get started using ERIC…

The technical report or "fugitive" literature collected by ERIC is produced using a wide variety of printing techniques, many formats, and variable degrees of quality control. Since the documents processed by ERIC go on to be microfilmed and reproduced in microfiche and paper copy for sale to users, it is essential that the ERIC document…

This annotated listing of print materials on sexuality and disability includes 61 publications as well as 2 databases and 23 organizations. Print materials are listed alphabetically by title within the following categories: books, materials for parents, materials for professionals, curricula, and journals/newsletters. Prices, addresses, and…

A meeting was held to explore critical issues and problems related to subject access to online bibliographic records of monographic literature. The 23 researchers, practitioners, and policymakers who attended represented national and research libraries, bibliographic utilities, database vendors, library schools, indexing and abstracting services,…

This manual is designed to provide guidelines for writers and editors in the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) in the preparation of bibliographies and literature articles for USDA and/or agency publications, and in the preparation of reference lists for published papers. The bibliographic guidelines presented in alphabetical order in…

The civil liberties issues involved in the keeping of public records certainly arose prior to the use of computers, but automated information systems have, beyond any question, aggravated those issues involved in all areas of application and have made the need for legal protection crucial, if we are not to see a synergistic development of national…

The extreme flexibility of the MARC format coupled with the simplicity of a batch-oriented processing system centered around a sequential master file has enabled the University of California, Berkeley, library to gradually build an unusually large serials data base in support of both technical and public services. (Author)

Retrieval terminals have been placed in four public libraries in Northern California to provide access to sixteen different data bases. The first year of this two-year experiment is described, and some of the technical, organizational, and economic aspects of the study are reviewed. (Author)

The Experimental Ecological Reserves Project has begun a comprehensive attempt to inventory the Nation's environmental research sites in preparation for establishing a network. This network will provide opportunities for long-term, manipulative, ecological research and establish an ecological data base. (BT)

In order to permit systematic searching of multiple data bases to satisfy requests in interdisciplinary areas, a mapping of a portion of "Medical Subject Headings" to three other controlled vocabularies has been constructed. (Author)

The experience of the University of California Santa Barbara Arts Library with computerizing bibliographic control of art exhibition catalogsis described. (PF)

The instructional materials included in this document are designed to introduce students to the Apple IIe computer and to the word processing and database portions of the AppleWorks program. The materials are intended for small groups of students, each of whom has use of a computer during class and for short periods between classes. The course…

This data tape--NCES.HEGIS.TAXONOMY.FILE1981--represents a crosswalk between the old taxonomy of the Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS) and the newer taxonomy of the Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP). The 838 records give the old taxonomy and 4-digit codes and the new taxonomy and 6-digit codes for the conventional…

The nine references in this bibliography were selected through a computer search of the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) database. The following titles are included: (1) "Multimedia in Education" (Sueann Ambron and Kristina Hooper); (2) "Hypermedia in Academia" (Robert Beck and Donald Spicer); (3) "Design Considerations for…

Asserting that few teachers can provide examples of how they actually used educational research to shape an instructional decision, this position paper argues that as presently structured, the educational research institution does not appear to be effective in communicating products of its work to practitioners. The paper examines obvious barriers…