In academic year 2003-2004, students and their families spent over $6 billion on new and used textbooks. Given that nearly half of undergraduates receive federal financial aid and that the cost of textbooks is one component considered in making these awards, escalating textbook prices can impact federal spending. Because of the impact on access,…

This book focuses on designing instruction that integrates the use of computer assisted resources. There are 19 chapters in four parts. Part 1, "Strategies for Teaching with Standard Utility Software Programs," includes (1) "Paint Programs"; (2) "Graphic Organizers"; (3) "Graphing Programs"; (4)…

Describes secondary information services for sociological literature in English, French, and German, pointing out gaps and overlapping of contents. Results of studies on users' needs, steps taken by international organizations toward expanding a database of references, and three models for such integrated services are outlined. Sixty-nine…

Presented is an index to the contents of the magazine of China's Ministry of Education, "People's Education" ("Renmin Jiaoyu") from 1950 to 1958. These issues were selected for editing and translation because they cover the period immediately following establishment of the Peoples Republic to the Great Leap Forward. (Author/DB)

Presents methods for using the Longman Mini-Concordancer on tagged and parsed corpora rather than plain text corpora. The article discusses several aspects with models to be applied in the classroom as an aid to grammar learning. This paper suggests exercises suitable for teaching English to both native and nonnative speakers. (13 references)…

Discusses concordancing activities tailored for use with English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) students in the Cambridge Advanced English course in Australia. The article focuses on students selecting appropriate vocabulary to complete gapped text. Findings indicate that these activities benefit ESL students by providing authentic examples of…

Examines the definition of journal coverage overlap in abstracting and indexing services during the past 30 years of research and expands the definition using a matrix of dissimilarity values. Multidimensional scaling analysis is applied to graphically demonstrate this definition and a naive secondary tool selection algorithm is presented. (43…

These two articles discuss clustering structure in the Cystic Fibrosis Document Collection, which is derived from the National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE file. The exhaustivity of four subject representations and two citation representations is examined, and descriptor-weight thresholds and similarity thresholds are used to compute…

An annual survey found administrator salaries faring better in 1988-89 than the previous year, when the average salary increase fell below the inflation rate for the first time in five years. Administrators of private institutions made especially good salary gains. Variations by job type and personal characteristics were found. (MSE)

Includes a glossary, bibliography, reference books, children's books, cassettes, films, filmstrips, records, slides, videos, booklets, periodicals, posters, other activity sources, information sources, index, and areas of tropical rain forests. (Author/RT)

Provides an annotated survey of reference materials published since 1980 that provide access to interdisciplinary psychological literature on adult development and aging. Highlights include periodical indexes and abstracts; dictionaries and encyclopedias; directories and guides; handbooks; literature reviews; bibliographies; test instruments; and…

Discusses ways in which online searching promotes the development of research, computer, and critical thinking skills, and reviews two databases that offer access to information on elementary school science. Lesson activities for grades four through six are suggested, and information on the vendor, system requirements, and cost of each database is…

A survey of 123 users at the National Agricultural Library and Purdue University showed that, for most measures of acceptability, users preferred online or digital videodisc versions of the Pork Industry Handbook to the printed version. User characteristics were examined as factors that might influence responses. (Author/MES)

Discusses the information-seeking and information-using behavior of artists, particularly in the applied arts, and art historians. Topics include visual information; technological and intellectual aspects of access to visual information; physical characteristics of art works; cataloging and indexing tools; access to images; and the role of…