Describes education programs for children and educators at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry. (Author/RH)

Ten music educators describe the special activities and events they developed for celebrating Music in Our Schools Week 1979. (SJL)

Describes a museum exhibit of Japanese art designed to enhance tactual awareness. Blind and sighted visitors cooperated in sharing their hands-on perceptions of objects. Display pieces, chosen for functionality and design interest, included ceramics, textiles, folk art, lacquer work, musical instruments, and household objects. (AM)

Describes recent publications and traveling exhibition services (and related materials) of the Smithsonian Museum. (RH)

Reports on the Smithsonian Institution's four-day international symposium on "Children in Museums." (RMH)

Bellevue West Senior High School in Bellevue, Nebraska hosts the National High School Postal Art Exhibition, accepting art products in the form of envelopes and postcards mailed in by high school students from around the nation. This descriptive article includes reproductions of several examples of students'"postal art." (SJL)

Discusses three interesting art exhibitions traveling around the United States under the auspices of the American Federation of Arts. (Author/RK)

Describes the role of research in designing ScienceWorks, an innovative gallery at The Children's Museum of Indianapolis. The gallery was constructed on the basis of existing and new research on how children think and learn about science. The gallery is atypical in several respects but perhaps most fundamentally in its overarching agenda to foster…

Describes the conference, "Libraries and Associations in the Transient World: New Technologies and New Forms of Cooperation" (3rd, Foros, Crimea, June 1-9, 1996), which aimed to promote cooperation among libraries in Russia, Ukraine, and other former Soviet Union countries. Sidebars list the English-language papers and the names and…

The Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum in Ann Arbor, Michigan, encourages the natural curiosity of young people to explore, participate, and get involved in exhibits, demonstrations, and activities. Described are the museum's history, exhibits, programs, services, volunteers, resources, and affiliations. (JDD)

Examines a new realignment and new definition of the museum and its role in helping to create a more civil society. Discusses visitors' use of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, changes in object display requested by indigenous peoples, and the changing view of authenticity. (LZ)

Report on the 1992 American Library Association (ALA) conference discusses featured speakers, political actions of the ALA Council, guidelines on patron behavior, the resignation of ALA Executive Director Linda Crismond, and conference exhibits. Excerpts from an address by new ALA president Marilyn Miller on empowering people through libraries are…

Describes the use of structured video recall as a formative evaluation tool in the Royal Museums of Scotland. The use of questionnaires and interviews to gather data on experience and opinion is described, the adaptation of Interpersonal Process Recall is explained, and other applications of structured recall are suggested. (six references) (LRW)

Describes an exhibition at the Library of Congress called "From Sea to Shining Sea: An American Sampler" that contains a sampling of children's books that are representative of American life and show how children's literature has evolved over the centuries. Illustrations from several of the books are included. (LRW)