Implementing an Optical Disk System for Adult Education Manuscripts

In the fall of 1986, Syracuse University received a 3.7 million dollar grant from the Kellogg Foundation (Battle Creek, Michigan) to further enhance its noted graduate program in Adult Education and to develop a state‐of‐the‐art system for the indexing and dissemination of resources contained in the comprehensive adult education collections held in the Syracuse University Library. These collections consist of 650 linear feet of manuscripts, a pamphlet collection, a microform collection, several hundred audio and video recordings, 200 film segments from Omnibus and the Omnibus Excursion television programs aired on CBS in the early 1950s, and an extensive collection of English‐language monographs and journals.