The preliminary development of social documentary photography can be traced in the early issues of "Charities," a journal established in 1897 by the New York Charity Organization Society. During the journal's earliest years, 1897 to 1902, photography was already associated with social work in the minds of the public; but…

An on-going project of cross-referencing reprint and preprint series distributed by observatories to the collection of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory is described. Reprints available in the library's journal collection were removed after cross-indexing and referencing was accomplished. If the reprint was not available through the journal…

This pamphlet is a guide to social studies materials which were exhibited at the 1978 annual conference of the National Council for the Social Studies. The exhibit contained approximately 200 curriculum materials, periodicals, and papers collected from states, school districts, professional associations, and a few commercial publishers. The guide…

The Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Library at New York University, with a collection of 30,000 books, 13,000 bound periodicals, 450 current periodical subscriptions, and miscellaneous reports, documents, and reprints, shelves books alphabetically by author, and journals alphabetically by title. Conference proceedings and lecture notes…

After the Food and Drug Administration announced the results of testing of saccharin as a possible carcinogen and ruled that it should be banned, a public outcry brought about a delay in the ban. A study of magazine coverage of the reasons for the ban and information about the testing showed that in eleven mass circulation magazines, the reporting…

The magazine industry has thus far escaped the attention and regulation that both the newspaper and broadcast industries have received. The obvious defense of the magazine industry is the number and diversity of the separate publications of which it is composed. However, recent studies indicate that concentration of magazine ownership is…

A comparative-historical perspective was used in analyzing the readabilities of three newspapers and three magazines. A total of 270 100-word samples were collected from the Chicago "Tribune," the New York "Times," the Memphis "Commercial Appeal,""Cosmopolitan,""Atlantic Monthly," and…

This bibliography is divided into five parts: (1) reference sources, including bibliographies, guides, directories, biographies, statistical sources, handbooks, and chronologies; (2) monographs concerned with Asian Americans, Chinese Americans, Japanese Americans, and Korean Americans; (3) documents; (4) doctoral dissertations on Asian Americans,…

THE NAVAL AVIONICS FACILITY, INDIANAPOLIS (NAFI) TECHNICAL LIBRARY IS PLANNING A MECHANIZED SYSTEM TO PRODUCE A PERMUTED INDEX OF PERTINENT PERIODICAL REFERENCES AND PROCEEDINGS, WITH BOOKS AND DOCUMENTS TO BE ADDED LATER. INPUT TO THE SYSTEM IS PUNCHED PAPER TAPE PREPARED FROM THE SOURCE MATERIAL, AND THE PRIMARY PROGRAM IS A "CANNED"…

THIS PLAN FOR AN AUTOMATED PERIODICAL SYSTEM DEMONSTRATED THAT AUTOMATED RECORDKEEPING IS DESIRABLE AS WELL AS FEASIBLE. BASED ON AN IBM 1620 COMPUTER (A PUNCHED-CARD READER AND PUNCH, A PAPER-TAPE READER AND PUNCH, A LINE PRINTER AND TWO MAGNETIC DISK DRIVES), THE SYSTEM IS DESIGNED TO GIVE A WEEKLY HOLDINGS PRINTOUT, A WEEKLY CLAIMING REPORT, A…

THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY OF RECOMMENDED READING FOR ADVANCED PLACEMENT CLASSES IN FRENCH CONTAINS 194 ITEMS. THERE IS A MAJOR SECTION ON LITERARY AND CRITICAL WORKS, AND BRIEF SECTIONS ON PERIODICALS, RECORDS, FILMS, AND FILMSTRIPS. EACH ITEM IS PRICED AND AMERICAN SUPPLIERS ARE INDICATED FOR BOOKS PUBLISHED ABROAD. THE BULLETIN ALSO CONTAINS…

This unannotated bibliography consists of four sections. Section One is a general introduction to error analysis and interlanguage studies, aimed primarily at students writing their theses and at practicing teachers with little experience in these fields. Section Two presents a list of the journals referred to in the bibliography. Section Three,…

Designed for use by information network users, this list of journals which publish material relevant to women's educational equity indicates the machine database or databases which cover each journal, as well as identifying those journals not processed by any database. Introductory materials include descriptions of the procedures used in the…

This booklet is designed to guide educators through the necessary steps to writing for publication in educational journals. The first section discusses the steps in the writing process, from first thoughts on a topic to the final draft. The next section deals with identifying and selecting a publisher, whether to write a query letter, and what…

The Pagitron electronic composition system offers the potential to manipulate all elements of pagination as easily and as quickly as words are manipulated on computerized text-editing systems. The importance of such an all-encompassing pagination system is that it allows the editorial side of a newspaper or magazine total control over everything…