[Libs-Or] FYI- A Quick Guide to Education Data Resources: A tabletop reference to selected NCES web site tools

[Ann Reed]

FYI from the National Center for Education Statistics

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Subject: A Quick Guide to Education Data Resources: A tabletop reference
to selected NCES web site tools

     This handy tabletop reference has been designed for use in public
libraries as a quick guide to selected, easy-to-use NCES web site tools.
This brochure is intended as a freestanding tool to be placed on
reference desks and Internet workstations.

The web tools highlighted by this brochure are:
Search for Schools, Colleges, and Libraries;
Students’ Classroom;
Quick Tables and Figures;
Electronic Catalog; and the
Public Library and Academic Library Peer Comparison Tools.

Produced by the Library Statistics Program at the National Center for
Education Statistics (NCES), the brochure is currently being mailed to
the
9,134 public library systems included in the NCES Public Libraries
Survey
universe and also to all State Library Agencies.  To order up to five
copies, call ED Pubs at 1-877-4ED-Pubs and provide the publication
reference number NCES 2003-406.  The tabletop reference can also be
ordered online or downloaded from the NCES Electronic Catalog at:
http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2003406