The past Associate Executive Director of APGA takes the position that APGA should become a completely different kind of organization, not a federation of divisions, but a membership orgganization. (Author)

The meeting featured a program of spokesmen from: (1) government agencies, (2) nonprofit organizations and (3) firms which hope to profit from the sale of information and related services. (NH)

Despite the passage of many fine resolutions, activist frustration, postponement, and abdication were the moods of ALA midwinter, capped by what many members labeled a council cop-out. (Author)

An interview with Tilden Edwards by Maurice Prout of the Race Institute, Washington, D.C., a training organization specializing in assisting organizations to deal with racism. (EB)

Address given to the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) by its president at the ALA Convention, Atlantic City, June 1969. Discusses new directions in education and their implications for the role of school librarians and the structure and function of their professional organization. (Editor/CC)

The article describes the recently formed Joint Action Committee of Organizations Of and Serving the Visually Handicapped, made up of groups that united to fight budget cuts in California. The harmful effects of recent legislation on visually handicapped people and on professionals in the blindness system are described. (Author)

The author addressed the definitional aspect of including autism in the Developmental Disabilities Act (P.L. 94-103). The developments that led up to the law are reviewed, and the role of the National Society for Autistic Children regarding the law is considered. (SBH)

Statements of seven national organizations (Muscular Dystrophy Association, Spina Bifida Association of America, National Easter Seal Society, International Association of Parents of the Deaf, American Foundation for the Blind, Down's Syndrome Congress, and the National Society for Autistic Children) about raising community awareness of issues…

Outlines the dimensions of a systematic design process that performance technologists could use to increase their ability to achieve their objectives. Dimensions considered include needs assessment, audience identification and analysis, goal and objective setting, strategizing, evaluation and revision, and rewards. (Author)

A report is presented of the 57th Annual Meeting of the American College Health Association, May 22-25, 1979, Washington, D.C. (JD)

Field stimulation is a method of investigation designed to encourage researchers to uncover the nature of organizations without asking for an accounting on a questionnaire, which is a method that may only play back an investigator's fantasies because of the way questions are posed in it. (Author/IRT)

Examines some of the difficulties involved in the legal use of the term "raison social" in Quebec law, and makes recommendations for improving the situation through new terminology. (AM)