Dissemination as a Process Component with Implications for Organizing a State Agency Dissemination Unit.

This paper focuses on the dissemination function and explains how that function, in close cooperation with other State educational agency functions, can provide an orchestrated process through which educational needs might be met. The process outlined in this paper, the author contends, holds implications for State agency reorganization and a reassignment of resources. Besides maintaining a service function that draws on comprehensive national sources, the author maintains, the dissemination unit must have at least an abstract file, compatible with that in the ERIC system, containing all programs undertaken by the program offices and locally funded programs. Related documents are ED 031 821 and ED 061 428. (JF)