Describes a study conducted at Purdue University Library to determine not only the costs of providing online information services to users, but the value of time saved by the end user in having a computer search run and user satisfaction with the results. Six references are listed. (RBF)

Discusses difficulties involved in locating sources of statistical information on public libraries in Canada and describes a study conducted to identify and evaluate various sources of such information. An 18-item bibliography is provided. (CHC)

The dissemination activities through which college admissions officers heard about Project CHOICE, a three-year project to help colleges improve the information they provided to prospective students, were investigated. The study involved determining how well various dissemination methods (newsletter, journal articles, conference presentations,…

Reviews studies of historical and current trends in the library location theory; the relationship between distance and library users and variables, including available transportation, use motivation, and community awareness; and public facility location models such as central place theory and elastic demand. Extensive references, four figures, and…

This study, conducted at a separate serial card catalog in a major research library, measures the success of more than 400 patrons in the retrieval of serials. Patron interviews supplement data analysis to determine approaches, success rate, and underlying reasons for success or failure. An appendix includes the survey questionnaire. (Author/RAA)

Presents and discusses the results of two studies undertaken at the University of California at Berkeley to determine the relative ease of using computer output microform (COM) library catalogs in rollfilm or fiche format for library users and library personnel. Two data tables and 11 references are included. (JL)

Presents a study of adult reading habits based on time use. Indicates a decline in daily newspaper readership, particularly in the past 10 years, but a revival in magazine and book reading for the same period. (JMF)

To help history classroom teachers on the high school level make their classes more interesting, this article suggests that teachers incorporate short stories, books, poems, and excerpts from full-length novels into the curriculum. Examples of how literature of various types was successfully integrated into a history unit on the Civil War are…

Investigated patterns and possible explanations for the popularity of prerecorded self-help counseling tapes. Results suggested that patterns of requests may be influenced by patterns of advertising, including format, and order of topic presentation. Urges caution in interpreting tape-request patterns. (RC)

Citation analysis of faculty publications, doctoral dissertations, and preliminary doctoral qualifying briefs produced by faculty and students of Temple University's biology department is used to assess journal use in the biology library during the years 1975-1977. Forty references are cited. (Author/FM)

Draws upon examples from both countries to illustrate and discuss differences in three areas: curricular planning for media-based postcompulsory education, access to broadcasting and other media, and relationships between mediabased and conventional postcompulsory institutions. (Author)

The integration of classroom learning with field experience provides students of recreation with an understanding of the applicability of their college course work to the problems facing recreation professionals. (JD)

Why do some clients use institutional services, while others, with comparable impairment, use community-based services? Results indicated that the institutional group was more likely to have had previous service contact, to have less support from family members or friends, and to be more impaired. (Author)

Data from a study of the newspaper reading habits of 18- to 34-year-olds suggest that reading a daily newspaper is a habitual practice involving certain repetitive actions and that the newspaper habit is dependent on the tradition of newspaper reading in the home when the individual was growing up. (GT)

Studied use of scientific periodicals and irregulars (monographs/conference reports) in open access boxes for updating of current awareness scanning. Data were obtained from survey slips completed by users who consulted the literature after their previous visits to the library. Graphs and tables illustrating aspects of use are included. (SW)