All recent issues of periodicals found which contain indexed book reviews are listed in this compilation from Drake Memorial Library at the New York State University at Brockport. The periodicals are listed by 29 subject headings in this informal guide designed to be used at Drake Library. The number of reviews in the periodical in a recent year…

The topic of discussion of this issue of the journal "Teaching English" is reading instruction in the secondary school. Articles include "Reading in the Primary School" (Alastair Hendry), "Patterns of Progress" (Fergus McBride), "Teaching Reading--Whose Business?" (James Maxwell), "A Reading Policy for the Secondary School" (Iain McGillivray),…

The Health Sciences Library of the University of Louisville has recently developed a new computer-printed subject index to its currently received journals. (Author)

In this brief interview Ben Brodinsky, educational editor and consultant, states that good education publications incorporate both strong content and interesting layout. He notes that education writers and editors are frequently not as familiar as they should be with their audiences' needs and interests. (DS)

Traces the history and current status of the Paris press, noting the shrinking of old media fiefdoms and the rise of new ones, the discontinuation of some old leaders but the appearance of new titles, the search for reassertion of influence in the provinces, and the unabating trend toward concentration of ownership. (GW)

Discusses Tom Wolfe's point of view techniques and uses excerpts from two feature articles to demonstrate the basic point of view question for feature writers: how close do they want to get to their subjects? (GT)

Tells how to plan effective page layouts for news magazines; provides illustrations from high school publications. (GW)

An annotated guide to bibliographies, indexes, checklists of government publications, periodicals lists, and directories for Canada. (JAB)

A manual search of Journal Citation Reports provides information which would be particularly useful for librarians interested in forming special collections and difficult to obtain by other methods. (Author/MBR)

The academic rank of authors of articles appearing in "The Personnel and Guidance Journal,""The Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin,""Vocational Guidance Quarterly," and "Counselor Education and Supervision" during 1975, 1976, and 1977 is reported. The greatest percentage of authors (41.19 per cent) held no academic rank. (Author)

School librarianship thrives: it is cognizant of trends in education and technology and their implications for school media centers. Major issues are jobs and credibility--convincing faculty, administrators, and parents of the need for effective school media programs with competent professional staffs. (Author/MBR)

A study of ad hoc and selective translations of scientific and technical journal articles is described. Differences between two articles--one translated; the other not--with respect to original language, subject coverage, number of references and authors, and frequency with which their authors are cited in other works are presented. (Author/MBR)

SIRC began developing its sport library by building a basic periodical subscription list, indexing the publications, and publishing an index, Sports Articles. The center now has a computerized information storage and retrieval system with more than 20,000 citations including books and articles, and provides a variety of services. (MBR)

Describes how one teacher dealt with an attempt to censor a high school literary magazine. (DD)