The Curriculum Materials Center is described as a service agency cooperating with teachers to make learning more effective by way of the multi-media approach. The center promotes the concept of individualized instruction which is said to increase learning efficiency by means of--(1) materials selection, (2) curriculum flexibility, (3) valid…

This survey on the use of space for each of the nine institutions governed by the Oregon State System of Higher Education contains data relating to the scheduled occupancy of Instructional classrooms and laboratories; data relating to the utilization of offices and research spaces; residence hall occupancies; and inventory data pertaining to all…

Individuals and groups are exerting increasing pressures on American schools to restrict student access to important and worthwhile books. The success of these attempts at censorship has resulted in teachers being reprimanded, books being removed from libraries and classrooms, and subsequent attacks being expanded to include areas much larger than…

Presented are names and addresses of agencies for the visually handicapped offering financial assistance, educational services (local and residential schools), library services, rehabilitation services, and local services in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. Each major entry includes a brief…

Southwestern Community College was designed to meet the requirements of the comprehensive educational program. The program provides flexibility in terms of future educational requirements and a choice of highly specialized or general educational programs in both the academic and vocational areas. The relationship of the academic and vocational…

A survey of the amount and utilization of non-residential state university campus space available for potential higher education classroom usage is presented for all of the public colleges and universities in Illinois. The survey categorizes the space--(1) by an inventory of net assignable space, and (2) by the utilization of net assignable space…

The main sections of the text treat philosophy, religion, visual arts, performing arts, and language and literature, using the following pattern for each of these five area: (1) trends, (2) accessing information, and (3) principal information sources. Background information about the history and development of the field is presented in each…

At an institute at the University of Oklahoma, some 85 people from Arkansas, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma discussed ways to improve cross-cultural and user developed library services to all types of disadvantaged persons. The participants were librarians and representatives of the minorities, the culturally different, and the poor.…

Various characteristics of and information about the area comprising the Plainedge School District in Nassau County, New York, are compiled in this survey. The information is collected in the following categories: census data, history, school district, other educational facilities, the library, community groups, recreation, other governmental…

The resource guide offers 29 annotated entries directing the user to vocational service organizations. Each entry includes the organization's complete address, telephone number, and statement of the organization's interests, services, resources, and publications. (MW)

This annotated bibliography is designed to help identify the various titles published in series for young people and to provide descriptive and evaluative information about each series. Over 6000 titles in nonfiction series and publishers' series--either fiction or nonfiction books prepared by more than one author but having a common format and a…

This annotated bibliography is designed to aid in the selection of fiction for young people. Nearly 1500 titles from both out of print and in print series that have been printed since 1955 are listed. Series titles aimed at the kindergarten through second grade reader have been omitted with the exception of some series with a grade two reading…

The purpose of the 1971 Higher Education Act (HEA) Institute for Training in Librarianship and Drug Education was to train teams of librarians and media specialists from academic and school libraries to develop comprehensive drug education packages made up of both commercially available materials and locally produced learning aids designed to meet…

These book reviews have been selected by the editor from those already published in the "Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books." Except for those books listed under the titles coded as "Additional" or "Special Reader," all of the books listed have received a rating of "Recommended." These books are considered to be the best available in…

In April 1971 the Aslib Research and Development Department began a study on selective dissemination from MARC tapes. The aim of the project was to explore the technical and economic feasibility of providing selective notifications of current books, by extraction from MARC tapes, to specialized libraries. Typical of the potential customers…