The ITV Schools Service has sometimes been called the secret service because it is transmitted during hours when a large part of the adult television audience is away from home…
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The ITV Schools Service has sometimes been called the secret service because it is transmitted during hours when a large part of the adult television audience is away from home. Yet the achievement of these programmes has grown steadily over the past 30 years, to a point where well over 80 per cent of primary and secondary schools use them.
It is said that the British people have become either hostile or indifferent to the European Community. The level of poll at the first European General Election which has just…
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It is said that the British people have become either hostile or indifferent to the European Community. The level of poll at the first European General Election which has just taken place appears to bear this out. Is it true? If it is true—why is it so? Is it a failure of communication? In this Aslib Annual Lecture I want to try to answer these questions and to explore this new European Community dimension in the field of communicating public policy.
The award winning entries in the Institute of Training & Development's newly‐introduced Training Media Award Scheme were shown at the National Education, Training & Development…
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The award winning entries in the Institute of Training & Development's newly‐introduced Training Media Award Scheme were shown at the National Education, Training & Development Exhibition and Conference at Birmingham last month. The Awards are made in recognition of the quality of training conveyed in the media, and the supporting information provided for the user. They are in two categories; in order to differentiate between in‐company and professionally produced films, videos and tape‐slide programmes.
This report of a current experiment in satellite‐transmitted television over Europe appears by courtesy of Independent Broadcasting, magazine of the Independent Broadcasting…
Blake Tyson, Roman Iwaschkin, Gillian Mead, David Reid, Peter Gillman, Wilfred Ashworth, Clive Bingley, Edwin Fleming, Sarah Lawson and Kate Hills
AS A RESULT of present economic problems in Britain and attendant cuts in spending, there is a need to achieve maximum cost‐effectiveness in all sectors of public spending…
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AS A RESULT of present economic problems in Britain and attendant cuts in spending, there is a need to achieve maximum cost‐effectiveness in all sectors of public spending including libraries. This article examines a simple method by which economies could be made in buying multiple copies of books. It is assumed that unless librarians have freedom to buy a single copy of any book they choose, they will not achieve the breadth and depth required of first‐class libraries, be they in the public sector or in academic institutions. Perhaps second copies need cause little concern, but a pilot survey of a polytechnic library revealed cases where as many as four, six or even eight copies of the same edition had been bought on one occasion before the effectiveness of a lesser purchase could have been evaluated.