The report contains five papers dealing with some problems of a general classification scheme covering the whole field of knowledge which were presented at a conference held in London, June 1963. Topics covered included retrieval schemes, classification problems, inadequacies of existing classification schemes and the proposal of the…

Publications of the School Information and Research Service (SIRS) over a 10-year period are cross-indexed according to 55 educational classifications ranging from "Activists" to "Textbooks and Periodicals." Title entries under each term are identified as either "bulletins" or "slants" and refer the reader to appropriate volume, issue, and page…

The basic index for minutes presented in this manual was developed to aid clerks in indexing their minute books. A minute book is an extremely important record, but reference to an unindexed or poorly indexed minute book can be a time-consuming problem. The manual outlines the procedure to be followed in setting up an index and maintaining it on a…

Bibliographic citations are classified according to: (1) Home Management, (2) Teaching Home Management, (3) Use of Space, Work Areas, Housing, Equipment, (4) Time and Energy, (5) Consumer Buying, (6) Family Economics, (7) Teaching Family Economics, (8) Levels and Standards of Living, (9) Income, Expenditures, and Savings, (10) Financial and…

This report explores the scope and limitations of the use of citations of published works as measures of the influential productivity of scientists, and suggests that publication citations be utilized for educational research. The Science Citation Index is a list of references (cited works), each of which is followed by a list of the sources…

All articles (112) that appeared in the "Journal of American Indian Education" (JAIE), Vol. 1., No. 1 (June 1961) through Vol. 8, No 1 (October 1968) are indexed and annotated. The publication is divided into 3 parts: (1) annotations listed in order of appearance in JAIE by volume, number, and page; (2) author index; and (3) subject index. Later…

This compilation consists of pertinent submission information for journals or periodicals that have been known to accept unsolicited articles dealing with teacher education in general. Many of the publications listed may also entertain manuscripts with a subject matter emphasis. An effort has been made to exclude those publications focusing on…

This compilation lists research completed in the areas of health, physical education, and recreation and allied areas during 1972. It is arranged in three parts: (a) the index lists research topics alphabetically and directs the reader to appropriate citations in the bibliographies of journal articles, theses, and dissertations; (b) the…

In periods of rising costs and changing economic conditions, school administrators are faced with difficult problems in projecting school budgets, estimating probable cost increases, and determining salary needs of school personnel. The Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor offers information that can be of value to school…

This quarterly publication announces the availability of documents acquired and processed by the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) Clearinghouse on Vocational and Technical Education. It contains abstracts of research and other materials which are useful to researchers, supervisors, teacher educators, education specialists,…

The main purpose of the experiment was to answer the question whether broad or narrow terms function most effectively in the retrieval of relevant documents. The answer depends on what the user of the retrieval system wants, his wants being expressed in terms of stated precision-recall preference, or by the exact number of relevant documents he…

A total of 579 bibliographies, compilations of abstracts, order lists, periodical indexes, reproductions of library catalog cards, books, newspaper and journal articles, government and research documents, microforms, films, and filmstrips made available since 1960 were compiled as a resource guide for vocational educators. The materials were…

A bibliography pertaining to the environment, environmental education, and environmental education programs and materials is presented in this compilation. Citations were obtained from Research in Education (RIE), "inhouse" files on environmental education from Project RISE (Research and Information Services for Education), and various…

This quarterly index provides subject access to individual articles and reviews which appeared from July to September 1970 in 100 alternative periodicals. Since the last issue of the index, 30 new periodicals have been added. These additions reflect some of the areas which the index has not covered sufficiently in the past: gay liberation, womens'…

The Air Pollution Technical Information Center (APTIC) of the Office of Air Programs has selected and compiled this bibliography of abstracts on mercury and air pollution. The abstracted documents are considered representative of available literature, although not all-inclusive. They are grouped into eleven categories: (1) Emission Sources, (2)…