This report, summarizing the activities of the Vision Information Center (VIC) in the field of computer-assisted instruction from December, 1966 to August, 1967, describes the methodology used to load a large body of information--a programed text on basic opthalmology--onto a computer for subsequent information retrieval and computer-assisted instruction. Its aim is to provide an online computer station which will enable the inquirer to define his questions and then give him direct entrance to, and exit from, the computer's data bank of bibliographic information, combining IR and CAI in the same system. These two services are related through key words common to both systems. Key words concerned with vision are listed in the thesaurus, giving access to stored information, and to programed instruction listed in a concordance. An effort has been made to document and explain all steps involved in setting up the system. (BB)