A meeting was held to explore critical issues and problems related to subject access to online bibliographic records of monographic literature. The 23 researchers, practitioners, and policymakers who attended represented national and research libraries, bibliographic utilities, database vendors, library schools, indexing and abstracting services,…

Model justified the expectation that the transfer from learning one task to another is linearly dependent on the coefficient of intercorrelation between the two studies when the coefficient was corrected for attenuation. Supportive studies are cited. Regression curves yielded negative intercepts. Testable explanations were offered. (Author/BJG)

The single-link cluster method is used to construct a hierarchic classification for the 1400 documents in the Cranfield test collection. A variety of retrieval strategies applied to this hierarchy are evaluated in terms of effectiveness and efficiency. (Author)

A tentative classification of internal departments of psycholinguistics is suggested and a list of applied fields is presented. Applied psycholinguistics is not seen here to have a right to scientific independence. (SCC)

A well-designed environment for maintenance and operation staff will pay for itself and will provide a morale-building atmosphere. (Author)

Argues that Charles Morris' division of signs into syntactics, semantics and pragmatics is too rigid. The line between pragmatics and semantics is not sharp, and a language theory is needed that can predict and explain borderline cases without forcing them into arbitrary established categories. (CHK)

Examines the four Supreme Court decisions on sex discrimination in this decade, including the viewpoints of the nine Justices in their conclusions regarding equality of the sexes. Concludes that the Court has yet to enunciate a definitive position on whether sex is a suspect classification. (JT)

Concludes that after treatment using a taxonomy of comprehension skills adolescents more accurately perceived the distinctions between positive and negative authority figures. (RB)

The Wisconsin State Employment Security Division has an employment counselor classification scheme which responds to the cry for accountability. This article discusses five basic requirements in the classification system, as well as the overall value of the system. (Author/PC)

This article describes how a classroom can be arranged to encourage and channel a child's curiosity instead of discouraging it. (PB)

Discusses the stratification and specialization of common language into sublanguages for various spheres of activity and the introduction of the sublanguages into different language boundaries. (CK)

Criteria for prediction of multinomial responses are examined in terms of estimation bias. Logarithmic penalty and least squares are quite similar in behavior but quite different from maximum probability. The differences ultimately reflect deficiencies in the behavior of the criterion of maximum probability.

The 22 basic interest categories on the Strong Vocational Interest Blank for Men were used to classify the interests of men in 62 occupations. At least nine categories were required to describe adequately the interests of most occupational groups. (Author)

Over the last decade, notable advances have been made in the classification of child and adolescent psychopathology. The use of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-III (DSM-III) diagnostic categories for depression with children and adolescents was investigated using archival classification data spanning an 8-year time period.…