Explores the possibility of improving students' reading skills while increasing their information about world events through assignments in current prominent periodicals. (MD)

Reviews the Bulletin of Environmental Education's (BEE) contributions to the development of environmental education during the first 10 years of its publication. Focuses on main areas of interest referred to in BEE's articles and suggests possible areas for future development. (Author/JN)

The computerized databases that instantly tell if a document exists are not backed up by systems for instantaeously obtaining them. Librarians are spending increasing amounts of time locating and obtaining requested documents. Electronic delivery systems are seen as providing the solution. (MLW)

The computerized databases that instantly tell if a document exists are not backed up by systems for instanteously obtaining them. Librarians are spending increasing amounts of time locating and obtaining requested documents. Electronic delivery systems are seen as providing the solution. (MLW)

Discusses the three major types of professional religious education books and the functions of each, specific ways of determining good religious education books and how to save money on them, and significant religious education journals. (Author)

Identifies the several functions which contribute to the total bibliographic record structure of the country, dividing the bibliographic record system by market type--government, nonprofit, and for-profit--and by function--shared cataloging, interlibrary loans, online catalogs, circulation control, serials control, and acquisitions. (Author/JL)

Investigated assumption that those most concerned and knowledgeable about the environment (as well as those most active) tend to use specialized media rather than mass media for environmental information. Results indicate that persons environmentally active do not necessarily use mass media differently from those not environmentally active, except…

Concludes that in-home subscriptions to magazines that appeal to students' interests can improve their reading skills. (FL)

Describes the development and use of sentence combining exercises at a midwestern university and presents the results of a test to determine the effects of the exercises on syntactic maturity and mechanics. (HTH)

Issues in the continuing financial support of "Notre Dame Magazine" are discussed, such as overcoming administrator skepticism of the magazine's purpose and effectiveness, the editor as fund raiser, voluntary subscription programs, enhancing subscriber interest, recordkeeping, combining fund raising with subscriptions, and streamlining…

Reviews the major factors media specialists must consider in evaluating instructional software for microcomputers, stresses the importance of staff use of instructional software as a selection criterion, outlines the role of community support in implementing instructional computing, and recommends several periodicals as sources of information on…

The adequacy of shelflist count was tested by determining the percent of titles in philosophy, political science, history, and sociology at Purdue University which were classified in Dewey or Library of Congress classes reflecting those disciplines. Included are two methods for correcting inaccurate shelflist counts, two tables, and seven sources.…

Reports results of a study examining reasons why scholastic science magazines for youth have developed only in a few countries and in small numbers. (CS)

Discusses problems with reviews and criticisms of popular social science books: the quality and background of reviewers, the difficulty of distinguishing between fact and opinion, and the scarcity of competent reviewers. Analyzes reviews of Robert Ardrey's "African Genesis" and "The Territorial Imperative," Konrad Lorenz's "On Aggression," and…