Develops some of the vocational constructs available through Computerized Heuristic Occupational Information and Career Exploration (CHOICES). By making choices immediately through reality-testing in a low-risk counseling environment, the counselor and client are provided with valuable data within a vocational counseling experience. (Author)

Notes problems with cataloging library materials in the small and medium sized public library and suggests interpretations of the Anglo-American cataloging rules, with recommendations for their adaptation to smaller libraries. (CWM)

The four primary functional areas served by a word processor are discussed. They are data entry, data storage and file manipulation, text editing, and reporting. (MP)

A programed unit on triangle constructions using an information processing prescriptive model was compared to a traditional model. The experimental group scored significantly higher on a retention test. (MP)

The trend toward use of online bibliographic systems in libraries sets the stage for the discussion of standardized entry format and authority control in information input if maximum usefulness now and in the future is to be achieved. (MBR)

The three-year-old system for organizing and classifying materials in career counseling, devised for the Curricular/Career Information Service at Florida State University, is described and critically appraised. This system shows improvement in meeting needs of counselors and clientele. (Author/MBR)

The concepts of iconic memory and schematic memory are used to examine two fundamental and related features of the contemporary theory of visual information processing. (Editor)

Previous research has investigated the effects of interpresentation lag within the context of experimenter-controlled lag values. The present study attempted to explore subject-controlled lag effects on paired-associate learning. (Editor)

Considers several recent information-processing models of sentence-picture matching to assess their implications for sentence processing. (Editor/RK)

Most studies of memory emphasize the direct encoding of physical stimuli. In contrast, this research investigates memory for the internal stimuli that are generated during processing of a presented stimulus. (Editor)

Three experiments were conducted to investigate whether semantic information presented to the unattended ear in a dichotic listening experiment has a memory effect after 30 seconds. (Editor)

120 college students sorted cards with instructions to process bits of information per card (response uncertainty) and then made an absolute judgment of the interval's duration. Judged time was an inverse linear function of response uncertainty under the prospective paradigm, whereas no significant function was obtained under the retrospective…

Suggests that knowledge organization must encompass theories that focus on the more fundamental and less technical view and raises the questions of epistemology and general linguistic theory. Focuses on the meaning aspect of language and the terminological aspect of knowledge organization. Considers theories of terminology, language and meaning,…

Focuses on the Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS) developed by the Library of Congress' Network Development and MARC Standards Office. Discuses reasons for MODS development; advantages of MODS; features of MODS; prospective uses for MODS; relationship with MARC and MARCXML; comparison with Dublin Core element set; and experimentation with…

Addresses personal construct systems as vocational schemas, describing a cognitive structural model of vocational development. Illustrates practical application of the model through the use of a vocational repertory grid test in career counseling. (SK)