National Center for Materials Development in Work Evaluation, Work Adjustment, and Workshop Facility Administration

摘要

The Materials Development Center (MDC) was started in 1969 to collect, develop, and disseminate useful, how-to-do-it information and products to 2,700 vocational rehabilitation facilities in three content areas: vocational evaluation, work adjustment, and facility management. The goal of the MDC project was to increase the competencies of facility staff so that they, in turn, could provide more effective and efficient services to handicapped persons. In order to accomplish this mission, MDC was organized into an Information Service and a Development Service. The Information Service performed as follows: (1) operated an information retrieval and loan service answering specific questions on MDC's three content areas from eligible users; (2) bulk mailed 300,000 (1975-1981) publications developed by MDC staff to all eligible users; (3) loaned or rented 32,000 (1975-1981) audiovisual presentations to users; (4) compiled annual annotated bibliographies containing all materials in the three content areas, and (5) published a bimonthly newsletter sent to over 10,000 persons on each mailing. Between 1975 and 1981 the Development Service performed as follows: (1) developed 49 original publications, (2) reprinted 12 publications from other sources, (3) produced 28 original audiovisual media presentations, (4) produced 19 conference tapes, and (5) operated two clearinghouses, one for work sample manuals and one for job analysis.