A small corporate library evolved a computer system that generates routing slips to send 180 periodicals to 310 persons according to their individual and changing requests. (Author)

Discusses the classification of materials in art libraries using the Library of Congress and Dewey Decimal Systems. (PF)

Sex discrimination in the health field results not only in inequities in roles and salaries for women, but inhibits healthy and fruitful relations between members of the health disciplines to the detriment of good patient care, affects decision making, and perpetuates misinformation about women's psychic and physiological processes. (Author)

This bibliography lists 14 books, 154 journal articles, 34 newspaper articles, and 3 research papers published during 1988-1989 on the subject of computer viruses, software protection and 'cures', virus hackers, and other related issues. Some of the sources listed include Computers and Security, Computer Security Digest, PC Week, Time, the New…

This paper discusses a number of factors that an editor should consider when publishing a state library/media journal, using examples from the production process of the Ohio Media Spectrum (OMS), the official journal of the Ohio Educational Library/Media Association. These examples have been selected to illustrate the various points: (1) selecting…

This publication is designed to assist administrators, teachers, and library personnel in selecting materials to support instruction in physical education. Information is included on: (1) physical education resources for student learning; (2) physical education curricular framework goals--comprehensive bibliography; (3) professional resources for…

A study was conducted to determine what, if any, are the ethical guidelines standard for persons working in the magazine industry. A two-page questionnaire, consisting of 21 questions, was mailed to the contact editors of 100 of the nation's most popular consumer magazines. Responses were received from 49 of the editors. The data revealed that…

Examining the role of service journalism in association magazines (magazines focusing on technical and educational information relating to specific practices of association members), a case study of the "Angus Journal" (a monthly magazine devoted to the beef breeding industry) investigated the problem of determining the amount of service…

Social, economic, and popular scientific trends converged in the early twentieth century to support the mass popularity of cosmetics. Twentieth-century magazine ads for personal care and beauty products reflected the contemporary belief that "science" was on the verge of being able to cure almost anything, including physical flaws and…

Cultural pressure for thinness has been cited as a contributing factor in the apparent increase in the eating disorders of anorexia and bulimia. Previous research has examined popular periodicals as an indicator of cultural pressure for thinness. This study assessed changes over the past 20 years in numbers of popular magazine articles focusing on…

A study examined how three major women's magazines handled cigarette advertisements and editorial copy about smoking-related health problems. Examined were issues of "Ms.,""Good Housekeeping," and "Seventeen" magazines from 1972, one year after the ban on television advertisements and the year "Ms." began…

Prepared as an introduction to the methods and techniques of citation and co-citation analysis for educational researchers, this paper describes a citation database which was extracted from educational research periodicals and explores in a preliminary manner the results of a a citation analysis of the database. The analytical procedures involved…

A study investigated how news photographs in "Time" and "Newsweek" have portrayed the world to their readers. News photographs about foreign nations were selected from 60 issues of each magazine for the years 1971, 1976, and 1980. The picture's subject, size, country, and source, and the section in which it appeared were…

Articles and brief reports appearing in the first 19 volumes of the Journal of Counseling Psychology were classified into 17 content categories and certain methodological features were recorded from each research article. The three principle areas of research activity and publication were counseling outcome and process research, research on…

Outlines an approach for foreign language and comparative culture study based on newspapers or magazines, providing tasks for students from the elementary to the advanced levels. (LG)