The publication of this bibliography on "Women" is an appropriate event in that it closely follows the passage of the law which for the first time permits women to enter the United States Military Academy in its 173 year history. Over 500 titles are presently extant in the USMA Library collection on the subject of women, representing woman's role…

This is a guide to recreational reading in Vietnamese. Instructions are given for inter-library loans involving libraries throughout the U.S. The bibliography is organized under the following categories: (1) general interest; (2) history; (3) culture; (4) poetry; (5) short stories; (6) novels. Following each annotation, a notation is given to…

Brief reports of visits to several media programs functioning in open space settings. (Author)

The author, a Boston-based writer who focuses on the problems of education, visited Cuba to study its school system firsthand. This article is about his stay at the Martyrs of Kent Junior High School, en campo--out in farm country. (Editor/RK)

Describes legalistic education of trainees and their parents in senior-level technical training schools in areas of crime prevention and civil and labor law. Resource persons such as jurists, personnel from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, physicians, sociologists, and cultural figures lecture and give seminars. Describes evaluation methods of…

Evaluation results are described for the DIALIB project, a three year experiment of on-line bibliographic search services in four public libraries. Findings include users of the system and their characteristics; use of data bases; librarian reactions; and time and cost of on-line searching, both in a free and fee-based environment. (Author/JPF)

This paper examines factors influencing the number of minority students enrolling in library schools during the last 10 years. Undergraduate and graduate minority education, the presence of foreign students, and the issues of professionalism, recruiting and admissions, financial aid, affirmative action, curriculum content, and continuing education…

Andrews University's commitment to teacher improvement is evidenced by the availability of instructional materials and assistance in using them, and in its faculty development program that includes a new teacher seminar and a Committee on Instruction and Research. Faculty evaluation is the logical outcome of the program. (JMD)

The Junior Grade Books (JGB) Reading and Discussion program conducted in public libraries and classrooms is described. The purpose of the program is to improve reading comprehension skills while introducing readers to literary classics. The training of program leaders and how to organize a JGB group are also discussed. (JPF)

The purpose of the study was to determine where the public junior college libraries of Texas could be placed on a continuum ranging from a traditional book center to an ultra-modern media learning center, and study student attitudes and utilization of these libraries as related to academic success in these colleges. (Author)

Higher education reference tools, including a fact book, encyclopedia, and directory are listed in this 16-item bibliography that also reports the standard indexing and abstracting journals, information and referral centers, automated search services, and other resources.

Two-year continuing education project jointly sponsored by Oklahoma County Libraries System and South Oklahoma City Junior College is described. (KP)

Provides a brief introduction to the five articles in this issue, which explore the formal and informal dimensions of effective leadership, along with the personal, institutional, and social factors that shape the acquisition and use of power by the school library media professional. (CLB)

This example of online searching, employed as a research method rather than as a tool to gather bibliographic information, used Magazine Index to collect data which were manipulated using geographic codes and compared with the buildings of a 1977 study on geographic bias in television news reporting. (EM)