This guide offers suggestions for preparing notebooks for board members of a state-based career information system and contains a sample notebook. (A personal notebook has three main goals: introduces a new board member to the state system and explains the role of a board member, organizes essential materials that will be received and used by a board member, and is a reference for the board member when discussing the system with others.) The nine-page part 1, Suggestions for Preparing Notebooks for Board Members of a State-Based Career Information System, discusses activities of policy-making boards. It gives guidelines for establishing and initiating activities of the boards. Some procedural examples are given related to orientation of new board members. Major categories or material useful in a board notebook are summarized. Part 2, A Sample Board Notebook, contains a model with sample contents/materials for three types: (1) full general-purpose documents suitable for reproduction, (2) suggestions and samples of materials that could be developed for the particular state, and (3) references to additional material that can be ordered. These categories are included: board role and membership, agendas and minutes, committee reports and correspondence, constitution and policies, fiscal aspects, organizational information, and sample materials. (YLB)