Speeches, papers, and summaries of group discussions from Australia's 1978 national seminar on library services for the visually and physically impaired are presented. The opening and keynote addresses are followed by two papers dealing with the present state of services in Australia and other nations, two papers on the library service needs of…

Establishing a British national strategy to tackle youth drug use would seem an obvious first step in solving the drug problem. Some ideas for remedying the drug problem among young people are presented in this conference report. Drug abuse among children and adolescents throws up some complex issues and the obstacles to any coordinated,…

This compilation presents the proceedings of a conference on Indochinese refugee families. The papers included in the volume are the following: (1) "Counseling Vietnamese Women in Transition," by Tran Nhu Choung; (2) "Preliminary Nutritional and Demographic Assessment of Hmong Refugees in the Area of Puget Sound, Washington,"…

At the seminar reported in this paper, concepts related to three types of "mediators" whose impact on the development of the child was seen as crucial were examined in the keynote address, in three short papers, and in the discussions of the seminar's three working groups. This report, which was adopted unanimously at the seminar's…