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Informal Information Transfer
Pages 408-410

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From page 408...
... 3. The elementary or secondary school teacher, who makes use of con solidated texts and teacher aids and can tolerate considerable delay.
From page 409...
... To the investigator in the life sciences, attendance at scientific meetings has become an urgent necessity. These provide opportunities to learn of recent findings, to hear preliminary reports, to listen to summaries by distinguished experts of areas of research in which one is tangentially interested but whose literature there is not sufficient time to follow.
From page 410...
... Perhaps the most intensive such communications experience is the remarkable program of visiting seminar speakers that has grown up in the last two decades. In large measure supported by the National Institutes of Health training grants program, almost every qualified academic department brings to its seminar program 5, 10, or more visiting speakers annually.


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