There are also many sources for getting advice and information when considering a system. The organization may seek the experience of a similar organization that has undergone the acquisition process. There are many reference sources available at the library such as computer books, consumer magazines and specialty computer magazines. The user can also seek advice from sales personnel at a computer retail store. They may be limited in terms of the brands of computers and software a particular store sells. The user needs to be aware that the sales personnel may have other motives than what is

This paper speculates about the future of the high arts, the live performing arts plus the fine arts and museums in the . It is suggested that their future depends on two factors: first, the impact of technological innovations that produce substitutes capable of competing with live performance; second, the liklihood of artistic innovations that can build and maintain audience interest. The prospects for the individual categories of symphony concerts, opera, dance, theater, and art museums are evaluated separately in relation to those two factors.

I advocate a more broadly based approach to the use of the computer in art education than that currently prevailing in most educational systems. My label for this broader approach, computer-mediated art education, has the dual advantage of reminding art educators both of the need to address the ways in which computer use affects the arts and of the catalytic nature - resulting in the reconfiguration of the teaching process itself - of computer use in the classroom. Because this latter aspect is well documented in the general literature on computing in education, I will concentrate here on the

Published in cooperation with Government Information Services and by Education Funding Research Council. This publication is a guide which lists a brief description of more than 600 federal and private sector funding programs specifically geared to the needs of grantseekers in state, city, county and local government...nonprofit and community organizations...elementary and secondary schools...and universities and community colleges. The handbook includes instructions on obtaining the full report on each of the individual grant programs from the publisher.

Published by the Benton Foundation and the Center for Strategic Communications in collaboration with Advocacy Institute, American Forum, Apple Computer Community Affairs, Communications Consortium, Media Network, and Telecommunications Cooperative Network.

Published by the Benton Foundation and the Center for Strategic Communications in collaboration with Advocacy Institute, American Forum, Apple Computer Community Affairs, Communications Consortium, Media Network, and Telecommunications Cooperative Network.

This guide is designed for nonprofit organizations who want to improve communications with other organizations and to find or provide information through the use of computers and computer networks. It describes the technical basics of computer networking and outlines criteria for selecting and implementing an appropriate network.

The author discusses her experiences with the Pan Asian Rep and discusses her fears for the future of theater with the growing emphasis on technological glitz, a decline in the quality of play writing, the growth of the business size of arts organizations, and the loss of theater actors because of low pay.

These statements were submitted to the Subcommittee on Technology and the Law of the Judiciary Committee May 12, 1987. Thanks to Larry Chernikoff, Chernikoff and Company, Washington, D. C. for making copies of the transcripts available to The Journal of Arts Management and Law.

This book contains 22 edited presentations and position papers from FEDAPT's 1986 fifteenth annual national conference The Challenge of Change. The papers examine the role of the arts in the changing social, economic and technological climate, and how arts organizations could adapt to these changes.