Describes the IV + V System, a software package designed by the Institut fur Maschinelle Dokumentation for the United Nations General Information Programme and UNISIST to support automation of local information and documentation services. Principle program features and functions outlined include input/output, databank, text image, output, and…

The expanding networks of computer hardware, software, and organizations for controlling them and the institutional data bases they access are described. Improvements are making the data sources accessible but raise some new problems for data managers and institutional researchers. (Author/LBH)

This study attempted to shed light on the role of items cued to be remembered in the forgetting of items cued to be forgotten. (Author)

Subjects selected on the basis of their drinking histories (alcoholics, heavy drinkers, and social drinkers, N=24) were tested on a series of tasks in order to assess organizational processes in memory. (Editor)

This research forms part of a long-term program of work on the general relationship between intrapersonal stress and the development of effective cognitive processes. (Author/RK)

This paper reviewed briefly the major types of masking effects obtained with various methods and the major theories or models that have been proposed to account for these effects, and outlined a three-mechanism model of visual pattern masking based on psychophysical and neurophysiological properties of the visual system. (Author/RK)

Summarizes five papers presented at the Fourth Biennial Conference on Chemical Education that dealt with the impact of increased subscription costs of chemical information publications and ways of providing information services to students. (MLH)

Notes are indispensable to serials cataloging. Researchers, reference librarians, and catalogers regularly use notes on catalog records and, as the audience for these notes has expanded from the local library community to the global Internet community, the need for notes to be cogent, clear, and useful is greater than ever. This book is a…

Describes different ways in which curriculum development has taken place and suggests future possibilities for each of the options. Defines basic terms and examines the teacher's function in curriculum development. (Editor)

Research supported by a grant from the Office of Naval Research. (DD)

A look at Great Britain's plans for a comprehensive documentation system for the media, closely integrated with that for books and operating at both the national and local levels. (Author/HB)

The author draws attention to the problem that arises when reference librarians undertake to retrieve the kinds, or forms, of publications known as indexes, bibliographies, and catalogs. (10 references) (Author/SJ)

Ability to attend is considered in relation to mental retardation and learning disability. (Author)

The findings of the first two parts of a five-part study are presented. The objectives of the first two parts were to determine the overlap of primary journal coverage among the services and to compare selection processes for the same articles by the different services. (4 references) (Author/SM)