This report of the Commission on Preservation and Access Seminar on Scholarly Resources in Art History provides a brief overview of the major concerns and assumptions of the seminar. Seminar discussions are then summarized in the following areas: (1) brittle books, including the deterioration of valuable research tools and primary sources and the…

This document describes the citizen survey process as it relates to study of the parks and recreation field. A community parks and recreation survey consists of identifying the interests, desires, priorities and awareness factors of citizens regarding parks and recreation programs, resources, and facilities as well as the nature and frequency of…

Parents Too Soon is a statewide program developed in Illinois to deter both teenage pregnancy and the negative consequences of adolescent childbearing and parenting. Clients are males and females 20 years of age and younger who wish to avoid conceiving children, are pregnant, are parents, or are at-risk of becoming parents. Included in this…

This report describes recent efforts to modify, test, and evaluate an experimental online database consisting of 15 vendor-supplied, controlled subject vocabularies or thesauri. The experimental database, called the Vocabulary Switching System (VSS), is designed to enhance search strategies and ultimately retrieval performance for users of online…

Plans by which academic libraries receive all the titles of a publisher's or book jobber's output are increasingly popular. A study was conducted to find out if there was a significant difference in utility between books acquired on these approval plans and books selected by librarians in the traditional way. (LS)

Barriers to the use of The Electric Company (TEC) instructional television (ITV) series in primary education classrooms are examined. Findings from interviews with teachers in classrooms where ITV facilities are available and professional ITV spokespersons are summarized. Based upon the findings from these interviews and past ITV research, the…

This summary reviews the recommendations of the first annual report, describes the Education Satellite Communications Demonstration, and discusses its impact on Alaskan affairs and institutions. Based on this, it presents educational alternatives and new experiments appropriate to Alaska's needs in three areas: (1) physical implementation of the…

A review of research on use of the library by workers in the humanities. Includes tables of citations and humanities journals studied and a generalized profile of information seeking behavior of scientists, social scientists, and humanists. (LS)

A study analyzed the attitudes of newspaper subscribers and nonsubscribers to determine whether the two groups were truly distinct, homogenous segments of the public or whether there were "atypical" subscribers and nonsubscribers. Data were gathered through telephone interviews with more than 1,000 adults in the southeastern United…

This study on educational technology in Northern Ireland focuses on the ways in which the resources, human and material, of the Province could be used more effectively. The report comprises two main sections: Part One: Recommendations for Coordinating and Developing Educational Technology in Northern Ireland; and Part Two: Current and Planned…

As a means of studying the present public catalogs and possible catalog format alternatives at the Iowa State University library, a 6-week queuing study was conducted. Objectives of the study were (1) to determine the correlation between other library statistics (e.g., door counts and circulation records) and use of the public catalogs; (2) to…

During the first year of publication of Current Papers in Physics (1966) a joint study was undertaken in the UK by Aslib working under contract with the Institute of Electrical Engineers (IEE) and in the US by the American Institute of Physics (AIP) to assess the need for the new publication and its usefulness to the physics community. The study…

In a cooperative program with Defense Documentation Center Headquarters, Sylvania arranged for procurement of 70,000 unclassified-unlimited documents without DDC Form I cards and 30,000 unclassified-limited and classified documents with Form I's. This was done in order to overcome effects of an in-house documents inventory/selective destruction…

Indices of the impact of public libraries on their municipalities are made by measuring the relationship of registrants against the municipal populations. Three indices based on registrants in households are developed. The methodology is based on "pairs" of libraries exhibiting two comparable characteristics--the population served and the per…