The Blank Check Order System was developed to cut paperwork and in-store processing costs for special order books. The customer pays in advance and the bookstore sends a blank check order to the publisher. The process and its advantages are described in detail including evaluation by publishers and college store managers. (JT)

A Gallup study is described, which was commissioned by Oklahoma State Christian College regarding the philosophical orientation of college students generally (liberal or conservative). The author presents selected findings and concludes that students in the national random sample are ignorant of industrial life and generally hostile toward the…

Issues involved in the new national copyright bill approved by the Senate and under study in the House of Representatives are examined, particularly the interests of publishers, educators, and librarians with regard to the photocopying of articles in periodicals for classroom use or interlibrary loan. (JT)

The author suggests that there should be a continuing policy for educative broadcasting especially sensitive to the needs of lifelong non-participants in formal post-school education. He recommends extending the amount of up-market programing, injecting educative content into the down-market programs, and giving maximum exposure to educative…

Describes the philosophy and content of an industrial chemistry course offered to seniors and graduate students. The course does not use a text; the chemistry is presented on projected transparencies which are also reproduced on paper and given to the students. Outside readings are predominately made in the "Encyclopedia of Chemical…

An examination of the control and manipulation of black hero images by the white mass media. (EH)

The European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (CEDEFOP) is endeavoring to encourage television to provide more and better information on vocational and continuing education in the European Community (EC). Therefore, it held its first competition to award prizes for broadcasts presenting information on vocational training,…

This report, representing the culmination of the first phase of an Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) project, analyzes the various concepts of human resource development in relationship to structural and technological change. Part I, "The Knowledge Base of an Industrial Economy" (Gunnar Eliasson), begins with a chapter…

European institutions of higher education must let changing economic conditions play a bigger role in their decisions about what research to emphasize. As costs escalate, constraints on government spending force a shift of funding priorities toward research of more strategic value to industry. There are many ways that universities and industry…

In the mid-1980s, the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) reformed the National Radio Systems Committee (NRSC) as a liaison between receiver manufacturers and amplitude modulation (AM) broadcasters to promote unity in upgrading AM transmission and reception, and to aid AM in narrowing the sound quality gap with frequency modulation (FM). In…

Entries in the New York "Tribune" suggest that editor Horace Greeley and his writing were part of New England transcendentalism. This was manifested in Greeley's interest in poetry, newspaper publishing, reform, and an overall practical social idealism. He was long associated with both literary figures and reform movements, and as a…

Broadcasters, television engineers and the production industry have encountered many problems with diverse television standards since the introduction of color television. With the advent of high definition television (HDTV), the chance to have a common production standard for international exchange of programs and technical information has…

A number of flight accidents in recent years have made the use of helicopters in news coverage controversial. Radio or television reporters are sometimes asked to fly under unsafe conditions simply because competing stations have sent up their reporters. Although pilots have the right to refuse to fly if they feel conditions are dubious, they too…

While human resource development (HRD), an extension of education, is regarded as a helping profession, industry mandates that HRD contribute to the maximization of organizational outcomes. HRD personnel can easily become demotivated because of dual loyalties. In order not only to avoid stress and demotivation but also to maximize outcomes…

Presented as part of a roundtable discussion by editors of library journals at the 1986 International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) conference, "Electronic Publishing," by Hirokazu Iwata of Japan, discusses Dai Nippon Printing's response to new media and electronic publishing. Various aspects of the computerized processing…