To facilitate resource sharing, a union list of serials held by libraries in Oakland County, Michigan, was compiled. A steering committee representing the special, academic, and public libraries in the county planned the project. Special arrangements were made to eliminate such barriers to special library participation as: lack of staff for…

A content analysis of women's roles in "McCalls Magazine" in 1964 and 1974 revealed two profiles of a publication that has been dispensing advice and entertainment for wives and mothers since 1876. The recent women's movement first attracted media coverage around 1968, and a study of "McCalls" before and after this time showed…

A new, objective measure of departmental performance--rate of publication in key journals--is described and shown to be highly correlated with the American Council on Education (ACE) ratings of quality. Updated rankings of mathematics, physics, and chemistry departments based on this index are presented. The analyses indicate that the ACE rankings…

Selected professional periodicals were searched for statements of objectives of secondary school biology teaching for six subperiods of the period 1918-1972. Statements of 18 objective types were classified as to frequency of occurrence, category, authorship, and year of publication. The categories of objectives were: knowledge, process, attitude,…

This issue of Impact is devoted to paraprofessionals in the helping professions and develops the discussion through five major articles. Part 1 offers an introduction to the role of paraprofessionals in classrooms and pupil personnel services. Part 2 relates the historical and legislative developments of paraprofessionals in the mental health…

A special issue of Overseas Universities devoted to university libraries contains 10 articles concerning developing nations, particularly Africa. Articles cover: an architect's survey of university library problems; planning libraries in the humid tropics, with emphasis on the University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji; aid, funding, and…

An experiment was conducted based on an information service for planners run in conjunction with Geo Abstracts Limited. Forth-eight styles of abstracting journals were produced which, although based on the same source material, differed in depth of coverage, frequency of publication, content of entry, and whether an index was included. One style…

This annotated list of periodicals, derived from six basic periodical reference works including "The Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature" and the "Basic Book Collection for Elementary Grades, " was compiled for use with elementary, junior high, and high school students. Each notation indicates the frequency of publication, the current price,…

This guide, listing magazines and newspapers for children, encompasses a wide range of subjects, with those items starred which are appropriate for all ages, not just children. Also included in the guide is a list of reference books for children, categorized under atlases, biography, dictionaries, encyclopedias, fine arts and music, handbooks and…

Philadelphia poet and journalist Horace L. Traubel's work as biographer of Walt Whitman has overshadowed his role as crusading editor. Traubel (1858-1919) devoted 30 years to publishing the "Conservator," a monthly newspaper that reflected its editor's idiosyncratic philosophy and crusaded persistently for libertarian principles. He made…

Documents relating to rural education are cited in this annotated bibliography. The 335 citations and abstracts appeared in "Research in Education" (RIE) from April 1973 through June 1974. Also included are 149 citations which appeared in "Current Index to Journals in Education" (CIJE) from April 1973 through June 1974. Major…

In order to measure the effectiveness of its libraries, the City of London Polytechnic Library and Learning Resources Service surveyed its users and compared the results with a study completed the previous year (1973). Tables and statistics have been provided for: number, type, status, and academic department of users; frequency of use;…

The bibliography cites 127 publications and periodicals useful for rural development which were in the most current Government Printing Office's price lists. It is divided into 5 categories: (1) People Building; (2) Community Facilities; (3) Environmental Improvement; (4) Economic Development; and (5) Government Periodicals. Topics covered are:…

The tradition of self-publishing is represented in this book, which describes the publishing adventures of 26 writers who have sold up to hundreds of thousands of copies of their works. Included are a winner of the National Book Award for Nonfiction, a cookbook author, a literary agent, a playwright, authors of instructional books, minority-group…

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has prepared a selected computer-generated bibliography from recent international journals on sudden death in infants. Each of 108 citations is accompanied by descriptors selected from the NLM's list of medical subject headings to facilitate the use of the retrieval system for those who are interested in…