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Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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, can shrink a 1,245-pageBible into a 2-inch square. Beyond the kind of facilities envisioned lies whatMichel Beilis of AT&T calls the eventual multi-media information center composed of regional, stateand national systems. A former university teacherand administrator himself, Mr. Beilis is now the BellSystems national coordinator for education in AT&TsMarketing Department. He foresees the day whenthe Battle of Britain — complete with taped Churchillspeeches, filmclips of London on fire, and an analysisof the event by historians — will be, as it were, deliver-able to anybody anywhere who wants to study it,whether in a classroom, a dormitory or even in hisown home. The instrumentalities already exist to transmit thecontents of books, tapes and films over the existinginformation network. To go from local to regional tostate to national requires only what everything worth-while requires: planning, purpose, patience, dedica-tion — and, of course, money, Mr. Beilis maintains.
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In vision of future, multi-media information center (left) might offer: audio and video tape playback, computer assisted instruction, print-outs of researcti material, photocopies of pictures and documents, plus contents of both specialized and general libraries — all instantly available via Bell System information netw/ork (blue bands) to homes, offices, classrooms and dormitories (right). Before the full benefits of a new educational tech-nology can be obtained, some problems remain tobe solved. While the technical side seems feasible,human and legal questions remain. For one thing, the new developments are comingso fast that it is becoming increasingly difficult forteachers to keep pace with the new technology. Atthe same time the new technology is bringing newroles for teachers, librarians and libraries. A teacher who only dispenses information can bedispensed with, says Harold Gores, president ofEducational Facilities Laboratories, a non-profit cor-poration established by the F

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