A symposium on the Canadian book was intended to provide the delegates to the annual conference of the Canadian Library Association with a survey of current developments in Canadian authorship, book production and distribution, and to expore the relationship which library activities bore to these. This document contains some of the speeches and…

The papers that comprise this document were delivered at the 1973 conference "The Development of Human Values through Sports." It is stated in the introduction that the participants are of the belief that values can be developed through sport, but such development is not automatic. The book reports on some of the available research on values in…

This annual report of the California-based Commission for Teacher Preparation and Licensing, prepared for its second year of operation, covers (a) committee membership; (b) the committee structure; (c) licensing requirements, accomplishments, and plans; (d) membership on the examination advisory panel; (e) approved programs; (f) description,…

A two-day Health Manpower Planning Conference was held at State College, Pennsylvania, in 1971. The speakers represented a variety of organizations with responsibility for aspects of manpower planning and others not normally involved in planning. Program content was structured in such a way as to broaden the context within which manpower issues…

The papers presented at the conference fall into three main categories: 1) outlines for critical research into mass communication, 2) international perspectives in broadcasting, and 3) the functions and goals of mass communication, together with problems of democratic control over broadcasting. All papers have been translated into English, as have…

Job description and certification are the two areas which must be clarified to assure proper employment for library technical assistants (LTA) which is the purpose of the Council on Library Technology (COLT) regional workshops. (This is the second of four.) Discussion on the first day of this two-day conference was devoted to job description and…

Contained are 15 papers presented at the sixth annual AMA Congress on Environmental Health. Three papers are concerned with noise induced hearing loss as it relates to pathological effects, the role of physicians in workmen's compensation cases, and exposure to steady-state noise. Five papers deal with noise control as it relates to medical…

Included are 18 papers presented at the fourth American Medical Association Congress on Environmental Health Problems. Topics related to environmental health include clinical and epidemiological considerations, genetics, patterns of health agencies, role of the physician and the medical society, and environmental stress. Topics related to…

This document is a comprehensive report on the 1969 Galaxy Conference of Adult Education Organizations (6-11 December 1969, Washington, D.C.) and is attached in six parts: the conference chairman's review; recommendations of the program chairman; report on public relations; budget and finance summary; report of the conference manager; and…

Two papers selected from those presented at the Special Conference on Instructional Technology (San Antonio, Texas, December 1-4, 1970) consider the improvement of special education through instructional technology. The papers examine educational technology as a program objective of the Bureau of Education for the Handicapped (Edwin Martin), and…

The second report from the National Advisory Council contains recommendations with respect to comprehensive manpower legislation, Federal support for post-secondary institutions, and the position of vocational education in the administrative organization of the Federal government. The recommendations of the Council arose from concern for: (1)…

The speeches of John Dobbin and Irvin J. Lehman to the Invitational Conference on Measurement in Education are presented. In Lehman's paper, "Testing in the Year 2001", he states that testing in the future, or in any year, must provide data to assist students, parents, professional educators, tax payers, and legislators in the decision making…

This report summarizes the latest effort in a series sponsored by the National Science Foundation on the innovation process. It adds to the store of retrospective case studies by documenting historically the significant events in several technological innovations of high social impact. These cases, drawn together by the Battelle Columbus…

This is the final report of the latest effort in a series sponsored by the National Science Foundation on the innovation process. It adds to the store of retrospective case studies by documenting historically the significant events in several technological innovations of high social impact. These cases, drawn together by the Battelle Columbus…

Program objectives for 1973 for library services in Florida under the Library Services and Construction Act are delineated with a rationale and criteria for some of the programs. Tasks to accomplish these objectives are followed by beginning and termination dates for each task. Some programs included in the revision are the State library agency…