A listing is provided of resources for teaching women's studies, including traditional textbooks and periodicals, popular music, and science fiction resources. Nine objectives of women's studies programs are suggested. (STS)

Some selection guidance is given for librarians desiring to add better titles to their general fiction collections. (JPF)

This talk delivered at the "Focus '86...The Curriculum and You" Conference by an author of books for young adults, focuses on the problem of teenage suicide. The characters and situations of three books are described with emphasis on the need for human values within the community. (CLB)

Science fiction is used to describe four scenarios of the library of the future: completely computerized; rehumanized; post-cataclysmic, reinvented; and post-computer, mental high-tech. The future is discussed in terms of what is possible, probable, and desirable. An exercise is suggested for librarians to examine their own ideas about the future…

Provides an annotated bibliography divided into four sections: (1) 28 items for teacher background; (2) a seven-item listing of films and filmstrips; (3) 27 print items for classroom use; and (4) a list of 43 novels dealing with terrorist themes. (JDH)

The author discusses the use of the conference/meeting symbol in fictional literature. He suggests how planners of adult conferences can learn from accounts of fictional meetings and apply this knowledge. (CH)

An author of young adult literature discusses the methods he uses to "research" his books. (FL)

Reevaluates Natalie Babbitt's first novel for children 15 years after its first appearance. (RBW)

This interview with a successful composer, writer, wife, and mother of five covers her start as writer of children's books, relationship of her stories to her own life, the writing of dialogue, transition of "Freaky Friday" to film, working with publisher, influence of her childhood, and attempt of literature to influence attitudes. (EJS)

Discusses the elements that make some children's fiction memorable. (TO)

A fantasy concerning the counseling profession of the future. (JC)

Describes the Russian reader's interests in contemporary American literature. (MM)

A look at how science fiction can be used in the classroom as an exercise in speculating on possible alternate futures. (AK)

Chamber Theatre, which stages prose fiction, is described and defined in terms of its differences to Readers Theatre, and in terms of narrator and point of view, past tense, and epic mode.'' (Author)