This article provides a bibliography of recent journal articles on various educational history topics including historiography, women's education, history of the family and youth, professional education, education in foreign countries, education in the United States, and higher education.

Increased litigation and rising litigation costs threaten the future of newspapers and magazines. A case study was conducted to determine the costs and effects of "United States v. 'The Progressive,'" a prior restraint case over the publication in 1979 of an article on the hydrogen bomb. "The Progressive," which operates at a…

Endler, Ruchton, and Roediger's (1979) method of obtaining exact publication counts for individual psychologists in order to make ratings of psychology departments was evaluated. Using the 1975 "Social Science Citation Index" (SSCI) as a data base, Endler et al. ranked departments on total citation and total publication counts.…

Designed to assist Columbia University librarians and library technical staff in selecting binding styles or other treatments for unbound or deteriorated materials housed in the university's libraries, this handbook includes guidelines for the selection of appropriate treatment alternatives; descriptions of inhouse and commercial binding and…

A study examined whether editorial involvement of magazine editors could be predicted by various personal and professional characteristics. Questionnaires completed by 170 editors of magazines elicited information about the extent of their involvement in editorial operations and their personal and professional characteristics, including age, sex,…

This study, done at the San Jose State University library, measures the effectiveness of an acquisitions approval plan, designed to acquire current books soon after publication without the time consuming, costly operation of title-by-title ordering, for a group of titles in political science. It also investigates the variation of titles received…

Focusing on issues in mass communication, the six articles in this journal issue cover many facets and approaches to the topics. The first article offers a review of recent developments in the field and some comments about its future. The second article reviews feminism in comedies from the 1930s and in a current film, and the third analyzes the…

A study to formulate a communication model by which sex role images are projected by magazine publishers and to test the implications of this model involved 321 college students enrolled in various communication classes. The students rated magazine covers on a seven-point scale that measured their degree of interest in reading each magazine.…

Published by the Illinois Office of Education, this document lists resource materials and information regarding nutrition education to be used by educators in planning and implementing nutrition programs. These include audiovisual aids (movies, filmstrips, and videotapes), published text materials on health/nutrition, curriculum guides, teacher…

This report surveys the development of librarianship in West Africa since 1954, focusing primarily on the production of professional library literature in Gambia, Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Liberia, the five countries which constitute the sub-region of English-speaking West Africa. An overview of library developments is presented, and three…

THE HISTORY AND CARE OF THE MENTALLY RETARDED IS TRACED FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE PRESENT. A REVIEW OF MEN WHO ORIGINATED EDUCATIONAL AND INSTITUTIONAL WORK WITH THE FEEBLEMINDED INCLUDES JACOB PEREIRE, JEAN ITARD, JOHANN GUGGENBUEHL, EDOUARD SEGUIN, AND SAMUEL HOWE. PUBLICATIONS BY AND ABOUT THESE MEN ARE LISTED. THE DEVELOPMENT OF INSTITUTIONS IS…

A TRAINING ABSTRACTS SERVICE HAS BEEN INTRODUCED BY THE BRITISH MINISTRY OF LABOUR TO REDUCE TO MANAGEABLE PROPORTIONS THE RELEVANT PUBLISHED MATERIAL ON TECHNIQUES, METHODS, NEW EQUIPMENT AND OTHER MATTERS PERTINENT TO INDUSTRIAL TRAINING. THE SERVICE PROVIDES WIDE COVERAGE OF BRITISH SOURCES AND SOME OTHER ENGLISH LANGUAGE MATERIAL, BUT NO…

THIS PUBLICATION CONTAINS AN ANALYSIS OF TYPES OF CHEMICAL LITERATURE, WHERE THEY MAY BE OBTAINED, AND HOW THEY SHOULD BE USED. PRIMARY, SECONDARY, AND TERTIARY SOURCES OF INFORMATION ARE ANALYZED. PRIMARY SOURCES INCLUDE PERIODICALS, UNITED STATES AND FOREIGN GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS, UNITED NATIONS PUBLICATIONS, REPORTS OF NON-GOVERNMENTAL…

AT THE SECOND ANNUAL ILLINOIS CONFERENCE ON JUNIOR COLLEGE LIBRARIES, SIX PAPERS WERE PRESENTED. THE FIRST COVERED THE NATURE OF LIBRARY SERVICES TO STUDENTS, FACULTY, AND PUBLIC. A SECOND SPEAKER DESCRIBED THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ILLINOIS JUNIOR COLLEGE LIBRARIES, NOTING THAT THEY DID NOT GENERALLY MEET THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION STANDARDS…

This bibliography lists representative materials dealing with international communication (communication between official national bodies) and intercultural communication (communication between individual representatives of various cultures or subcultures, within nations or across national lines of separation). Materials are organized according to…