This annotated bibliography cites works produced in French-speaking countries besides France, including Belgium, Canada, Luxemburg, Switzerland, Lebanon, and the French-speaking countries of Africa and the Caribbean area. Each section cites both fiction and non-fiction works. (Text is in French.) (CLK)

A comparison of the works of two homosexual authors, John Rechy and James Baldwin, reveals similarities--the hating father, an oppressive religion--but also differences in the extent to which the two authors come to terms with themselves. (JH)

Today, abstract exposition has lost its power to persuade; attitudes are changed by the narrative techniques of the media and the new journalism. (JH)

Compiled from responses to a questionnaire sent to producers and distributors of spoken-word recordings by the National Library Service (NLS) for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, this reference circular lists 53 selected sources for purchasing or renting fiction and nonfiction spoken-word recordings on disc and cassette. Subjects and types of…

This study assessed the readability of popular print material (newspapers, magazines, and books) published in 1920. Selected passages from these books and articles were analyzed using the Flesch Reading Ease test and other, more theoretically interesting and relevant, readability formulas. Results indicated that "highbrow" publications…

One of a series of children's books written from the point of view of an elementary grade child with a disability or other problem, the stories emphasize the similarities in childhood experience while providing information specific to the disability. In this book, 11-year-old Christine copes successfully with her diabetes but finds it much more…

This bibliography is intended to serve primarily as a guide for the selection of children's religious books and secondarily for the evaluation of this area in library collections. The 442 annotated citations are arranged by seven major subject areas: (1) Bible, (2) Old Testament, (3) New Testament and Jesus, (4) Christianity, (5) Judaism, (6)…

A study examined how the relative familiarity of a social group described in a message may affect the impact of ostensibly fiction and nonfiction messages on subsequent beliefs about social groups. The 24 paid subjects each received one of four sets of prose excerpts. Each set consisted of four excerpts that were labelled as fiction or nonfiction…

This advisory list includes annotations for 88 works of fiction, a list of 105 books favorably reviewed in other reviewing sources, and a directory of publishers mentioned. The list also includes suggested grade levels and the price of each book. (RS)

To test the strength of a booklist as a selection aid, an experimental/control group research design was used in the Lexington Library of the Davidson County (North Carolina) Public Library System to measure the effect of a booklist on the circulation of a group of fiction books that had not been checked out from the library in 4 years or longer.…

Developing a theme drawn from speculative writing of the nineteenth century--that technology, like biological species, undergoes a process of evolution--this paper explores the thesis that if technology divides from its human creators and perfects itself until it gains the capacity for self replication, it cannot return to its creator. Using…

Three colloquium papers are presented on two fields of linguistics, dialogism (the study of dialogue content) and polyphony (the representation of different sounds by the same letter or symbol). The first paper, by J. Moeschler, examines dialogism, dialogue, and polyphony from the perspective of the pragmatics of the utterance and the pragmatics…

Despite periodic efforts, traditional social studies teaching methods continue to be used in grades K-6. Research suggests that elementary students do not like or value social studies when these traditional methods are used to organize and teach its content. The goals of the social studies curriculum in grades K-6 are to transmit citizenship…

This bibliography is designed to aid in the selection of literature for visually impaired or physically handicapped students between second and sixth grades. It lists selected fiction books available on disc, on cassette, or in braille in network library collections provided by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped…