Over a four-year period, different sized classes were asked to rate the physical environment in a college classroom. Class size was found to be related to the proportion of complaints, satisfaction with ventilation, and room size for both students and faculty. It is necessary to develop theories of people-in-environments rather than of people and…

The findings in a survey of faculty use of government documents at Case Western Reserve University indicate how document users locate the materials they need, the users' familiarity with standard indexes to public documents, the age of government publications most frequently consulted, and other patterns of use. (2 references) (Author/MM)

If our public libraries are to reach all our people, from the deprived and poor reader to the intelligent and highly trained. they must change their image, both structural and personnel, and must offer more and better services for all. (NH)

Surveyors and professional librarians should look to the methodologies of other fields, such as the social sciences, for more satisfactory techniques. (Author)

The article under review is slanted specifically towards the law library and fails to take into account the needs of general libraries, either public or academic. (Author/NH)

A review of the literature describing student use of college and university libraries indicates a low regard for the library's role in learning. A program of team instruction in which professors and librarians work together to solve problems of common concern is suggested. (NH)

Analysis of medical and hospital services utilization revealed no consistent differences in number of physician visits by race, income, education, insurance coverage, or religion of users. Lack of insurance coverage and race were associated with fewer hospitalizations for certain diseases. Symptoms and diagnoses of disease were used to control for…

Compares raw-use ranking of journal titles held in libraries with dividing the raw-use frequency of titles by the actual linear shelf space of the title's file to obtain a density-of-use rank. The quality of the differences between the two methods is evaluated. Thirteen references are cited. (FM)

Reports that while "personalism"/surveillance and competence/trust ratings predict user satisfaction with newspapers, bias ratings do not. (FL)

Argues that public libraries should abandon their outreach programs which seek to attract nonusers to the library, and instead concentrate their resources on that 10 percent of the population who do use the library. (LLS)

Examines the characteristics of subject headings found in OCLC cataloging records. The study analyzed a sample of 33,455 monographic records taken from the OCLC database, and found that 94 percent of the subject headings used were Library of Congress subject headings. Twenty-seven references are cited. (Author/FM)