Gives biographical sketches and personal reminiscences of six important librarians. (PF)

Jesse Stuart, an author who has written poems, stories, and novels about Appalachia since the early 1930s, is interviewed in this first of a series focusing on outstanding Appalachians who have contributed to the Appalachian Region and to the nation as a whole. (NQ)

Writing in his diary of 10th December, 1825, Crabb Robinson quoted from a recent conversation in which William Blake said, "There is no use in education. I hold it wrong. It is the great sin". Author believed that Blake's writings and conversations had considerable educational significance, and he considered them in this article.…

Michael Polanyi was on "JHP's" Board of Editors for many years, and his book, "Personal Knowledge", published in 1958, was an important factor in the development of humanistic psychology. This "rememberance" presents an overview of his personal background and the major outlines of his thought. (Editor/RK)

Dr. Norman Drachler, former Detroit Superintendent of Schools, went to Washington in 1971 to establish an Institute for Educational Leadership for the Ford Foundation in association with George Washington University. (Author/MB)

An account of the early work of a rural educational pioneer, of interest for its remarkable parallelism to the social factors bearing upon many rural areas at the present time. (Editor/RY)

An evaluation of the career of Michelangelo Antonioni and his best known film, Blow Up, were followed with credits for the film, a sequence outline, study questions for class discussion, and some suggestions for additional reading. (RK)

Examines three towering writers--a Russian, an American, and an Irishman--and the relation of creativity and aging in their lives and their literature. (Author/RK)

Presents an interview with Linus Pauling in which he recounts some of his experiences in chemistry. (MLH)

Using an existing parsing program and dictionaries as a starting point, a set of programs for building a bibliographic dictionary automatically from text was generated and then tested on a newswire text. (9 references) (Author)

Tribute to Rachel L. Carson, writer, scientist, and naturalist. Traces her career in college, government work with the Fish and Wildlife Service, and in the literary field. Events surrounding her writing of Silent Spring are enumerated. (BL)

Lists a sample of materials on African-American women available at the Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection of Temple University (Pennsylvania). Focuses on sources of biographical data and various types of anthologies. (MMU)

This study examines profiles of online and face-to-face students in a single information science school: the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Information Studies. A questionnaire was administered to 76 students enrolled in online course sections and 72 students enrolled in face-to-face course sections. The questionnaire examined student…

The range of response options has been shown to influence the answers given in self-report instruments that measure behaviors ranging from television viewing to sexual partners. The current research extends this line of inquiry to 36 quantitative items extracted from a biographical inventory used in personnel selection. A total of 92…