A college class of non-science majors completed a metadata project in 15 weeks for a Women's History collection at a southern 4-year university. The class "First and Second Wave of Feminism" explored for the first time a scientific method of cataloguing while learning to promote, restore and preserve the history of women in the United…

The overarching assessment of youth services rendered by Leslie Edmonds in 1987 remains largely true today: that its most influential force remains not research, or evidence, or constant professional improvement or addressing field-based challenges, but "superstition." Research in youth services pedagogy, likewise, offers a perpetually…

Describes personal experiences of two American teachers who were evacuated from Beijing Foreign Studies University three days after the massacre of students and workers in Tiananmen Square. The Chinese system of education is described, library education is briefly discussed, and student attitudes and interests are examined. (LRW)

Three articles describe the relocation of the chemistry branch library to the main academic library at Rutgers University (Newark, New Jersey) as part of a trend toward centralization. Highlights include user support for the move, including faculty and students; and the operations research methodology used for planning and implementing the move.…

Discussion of electronic journals focuses on the development of TESS (The Electronic Seminar System) at the Yale University chemistry library. TESS was envisioned as a way for graduate students and faculty to virtually interact with articles digitized from print literature, enhanced with hypertext links. Responses to a survey evaluation are…