A history and chronology, together with a bibliography of relevant materials, focuses upon the student strike at San Francisco State College from November 1968 to March 1969, the largest in American academic history. The strike is set in its historical context, and minority student demands and major points of settlement are presented. The…

This paper is a bibliographic review of journalism history books published between 1969 and 1978; it is limited to those books which would appear under "history" in the "Journalism Quarterly" and to the kind of books which might be assigned to graduate and undergraduate students in history. The books are divided into the following categories:…

Defamation of character, as applied to libel and slander legal decisions, is the subject of this paper. After briefly describing the basis of liability, the author discusses "libels per quod." He then cites numerous court decisions in commenting on mitigating circumstances in action for libel or slander, including absolute privilege,…

An outline for a library science course in environmental information is provided, as well as selected information sources and reference materials. The outline includes historical and philosophical perspectives, information users and behavior, information resources, institutions and individuals as information producers, information systems and…

The 609 entries in this annotated bibliography are intended to help research workers who have an interest in the reading behavior of the general public and to stimulate ideas for further research. The entries are divided into nine sections covering general works; works providing a historical background; works dealing with the development from…

A questionnaire was completed by 110 individuals between the ages of 18 and 65 in a study conducted to determine the primary reason why adults read. The results showed that informational reading was the main purpose for adult reading, but did not indicate a relationship between purpose for reading and socioeconomic status and educational level.…

A study was conducted to establish whether optimum editorial mixes (mixes of items selected from content categories determined from factor analysis) can be determined by publications editors in attempting to provide wide audience appeal with a minimum number of stories. A questionnaire was designed to determine employee opinions of the Tennessee…

THE PAPER DESCRIBES THE NEED FOR A NEW MICROFICHE REDUCTION RATIO TO PROVIDE MORE SATISFACTORY MICROFORMS OF BOOKS AND PERIODICALS FOR LIBRARIES OF THE FUTURE AND URGES ITS CONSIDERATION AND ADOPTION BY THE MICROFILM INDUSTRY. IT DISCUSSES THE CONCEPT OF HAVING ONE MICROFICHE FOR EACH BOOK, AND ITS ADVANTAGES IN USE IN A DISTRIBUTION LIBRARY, OR…

THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN OBJECTIVE STRATEGY FOR THE SELECTION OF JOURNAL LITERATURE IN THE RETRIEVAL OF READING RESEARCH IS DESCRIBED. A FREQUENCY COUNT WAS MADE OF THE ARTICLES APPEARING IN THE GRAY SUMMARIES OF READING RESEARCH PUBLISHED ANNUALLY BY THE READING RESEARCH CENTER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO. THE JOURNALS FOR THE PERIOD 1884 TO…

AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WRITTEN AND AUDIOVISUAL MEDIA RELATED TO LATIN AMERICA WAS PREPARED BY THE STAFF OF THE LATIN AMERICA CURRICULUM PROJECT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS. THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY WAS PREPARED FOR TEACHERS, SUPERVISORS, AND CURRICULUM WRITERS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS. MOST OF THE MEDIA CITED HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED SINCE 1960. FICTION…

AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WRITTEN AND AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS RELATED TO CONTEMPORARY LATIN AMERICA WAS PREPARED TO SERVE AS A GUIDE TO INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCES FOR USE AT THE SECONDARY LEVEL. AN ATTEMPT WAS MADE TO INCLUDE ONLY THE MORE SIGNIFICANT AND MOST RECENTLY PUBLISHED MATERIALS AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH. PART I OF THE BIBLIOGRAPHY LISTS RECENT…

THE OBJECTIVES WERE--(1) TO ASSESS THE VALUE OF VARIOUS APPROACHES TO THE IDENTIFICATION AND ACQUISITION OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH MATERIALS, (2) TO ASSESS THE VALUE OF PRESENT PROCEDURES, (3) TO PRESENT A LIST OF PERIODICALS, GROUPED ACCORDING TO ESTIMATED YEARLY YIELD SO THAT DECISIONS CAN BE MADE TO SUBSCRIBE OR TO SCAN REGULARLY, (4) TO PRESENT…

A LIST OF SOURCES OF INFORMATION ABOUT MEDIA USEFUL IN ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION WAS COMPILED. A TOTAL OF 174 SOURCES OF INFORMATION WERE RECOMMENDED. THE NUMBER AND TYPE LISTED WERE 78 ANNOTATED CATALOGS AND LISTS GENERALLY AVAILABLE, 52 UNANNOTATED CATALOGS AND LISTS NOT GENERALLY AVAILABLE, 11 PERIODICALS CONCERNED WITH EDUCATIONAL…

This annotated, sometimes critical, bibliography is directed to those wishing to acquire a background in the conservation and preservation of library and archive materials. The bibliography lists general works, technical works, disaster planning literature, other preservation bibliographies, automated preservation information sources, periodicals…

This is a bibliography of articles that appeared in the "Chinese Language Teachers Association Journal" during 1966-77. The articles are listed alphabetically by author. The second part of the bibliography is a combined reference of subject and title indexed by "key words." (AMH)