The purpose of the symposium, sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency, was to outline and clarify the difficulties of interchanging information in the myriad forms now available, to present the user of environmental information with a review of the services available, their location, accessibility, and cost, and to describe some of the…

In this paper, the author reviews literature on the subject of releasing test scores and discusses constraints (in terms of test scores released and target groups receiving test scores) which he believes should govern such releases. The author suggests two phases for implementing release of test scores. One phase would involve parent conferences,…

This report contains the proceedings of the Fourth National Conference on Population/Family Planning Library and Information Services held in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, May 6-7, 1971. Under the joint sponsorship of the Carolina Population Center and the U.S. Agency for International Development, this was the fourth in a series of annual…

Bibliographic reference is here defined as identification of documents by combinations of report numbers, accession numbers, contract numbers, personal authors, and/or corporate authors with subject. Bibliographic reference was taught to a non-professional staff member to service an uncataloged collection of scientific and technical reports. (7…

Cites historical works, state of the art publications, handbooks, manuals, reports, and research studies that comprise the literature of school librarianship and discusses the need for bibliographic control of these materials. (CHC)

Reports on the 1975 meeting of the American Society for Information Science. (PF)

Presents capsule summaries of selected items from the American Library Association's 1976 Midwinter Meeting. (PF)

A summary of actions and meetings from the American Library Association 1974 Summer Conference in New York. (LS)

A report on the Canadian Library Association meeting in Winnipeg. (PF)

Reports on the 1975 American Library Association Annual Conference. (PF)

Describes the 1975 annual conference of the American Library Association. (PF)

Evaluation reports contain many statements which can be termed normative statements. Normative statements say or imply that something is good or bad, better or worse, ought to be or ought not to be. Non-normative statements are statements that are value-neutral, ones that do not express (or are not intended to express) value judgments.…