Presented is an analysis of nine agreements focused on three areas of common concern to dissemination specialists involved in the 1977 National Dissemination Forum: resources, linkage, research, evaluation and quality control. FORUM participants represented the Education Resources Information Center (ERIC of the National Institute of Education (NIE), the National Diffusion Network (NDN) of the U.S. Office of Education, the Research and Development Exchange (RDX) of NIE, the Research and Development Utilization Program (RDU) of NIE, and the State Education Agencies-National Dissemination Leadership Project (SEA/NDLP) of NIE. An appendix to the document contains the report of the Resources group.