As an aid to library administrators, professional staffs, and officials in making comparative evaluations of their own organization's position descriptions and in developing new position descriptions and classification specifications, this document describes 72 library-related positions and divides them into two major groups of classifications:…

This paper is a brief report on the impact of school closings on purchasing departments. It opens with a discussion of the trend of declining enrollments in public schools nationwide. The paper notes, however, that demographers expect the total number of children to begin to rise slightly in the mid-80's. Closing schools now is not the answer, it…

This paper provides the description, documentation and users' and programmers' guide for the keyword out of context (KWOC) library indexing system, with coding references, program flow charts, program listings, procedure flow charts and instructions for maintenance and operation. (Author)

This volume contains all the lexical items introduced in the Korean Basic Course. (See ED 024 943 for a description of Lesson Units 1-112.) The lexical items are arranged in the traditional dictionary order (explained in the Foreword) and indexed according to the lesson unit in which they appeared. The second half of the volume contains charts…

Guides and suggestions for village workers in the preparation of visual aids are supplied to assist in the introduction of new ideas to rural families. The information included is taken from the "Multiplier Handbook" produced by the Agency for International Development. The manual is designed to be of use to extension and community…

Educational attainment of women has risen steadily since the turn of the century. In 1900 about 57,000 girls graduated from high school, and by 1968 the number had increased to 1.4 million. A similar rise occurred in the number of bachelor's degrees received by women. In 1900 about 5,000 graduated from college, and in 1968 the number rose to…

The purpose of this project was to develop a "meta model"--a plan which could assist investigators in building models--using a computer simulation language. It is based on the assumption that there is a one-to-one correspondence between using a simulation language and building a model. The language selected is the General Purpose…

A project was conducted to develop a series of studies that will enable one to measure attitudes with reasonable accuracy. Nine stages of project activity were identified: design optical scanning form; write computer program to analyze data; determine adjective pairs; factor scales on elementary pupils; factor scales on high school students and…

Contrary to much published opinion, little evidence was found of decrement in the performance of students in a University lecture. Decrement was measured by the percentage of "ideal" notes recorded by students in the course of an expository lecture. (Editor)

Designed to help simplify climatic classification, this article provides a flow chart for interpreting the most widely used climatic classification system. (DE)

Even though many investigators have observed increased intakes of edibles as a function of prior exposure, little systematic research has been done on the effect. The present study was designed to investigate the phenomenon in domesticated rats with a concentrated solution of sodium saccharin used as the ingested substance. (Author)

Computer models of asymptotic reversal learning in pigeons were evaluated on the basis of the results of five experiments which defined the asymptotic pattern of within-sessions and between-sessions reversal (Experiment 1) and which provided data on the effects of intertrial interval (Experiment 2), amount of training preceding reversal…

The effective conductor accompanies word reduction with precision of statement. Author offered practical advice for any director who needs to watch his or her language more closely. He described evaluative, informative, remediative, and perfective phases of rehearsal language, and the initial, medial, and terminal stages of each phase. (Editor/RK)

Explains the practical journal usage technique currently being employed at the Case Western Reserve University Libraries, showing how a stable segregation of used and unused volumes and titles is possible. A method for rating the relative liability of the unused titles is provided. (JD)

Some applications of the theory of games to competitive situations are examined by looking at several examples, including a military problem, a political problem, and a prisoner's dilemma. (MP)