The need for bibliographic control of microforms is generally recognized, and the technology for establishing such control exists. Efforts so far towards achieving this end have been uncoordinated, poorly supported, and generally unsuccessful. (Author/VT)

Maxims on strategies for winning the battle of the budget in academic libraries include: persuade your faculty members to be your most effective lobbyists; use your political levers to the limit; quantify your logic; be aware of the multiple audiences who review the budget request; and expect resources to get scarcer. (JPF)

As an aid to therapists who work with inmates with long or life sentences who are mandated to receive treatment, this article attempts to follow an inmate with a life sentence who passed through stages of fear and anger and began to understand that changes were needed if he were ever to have his sentence commuted. (Author/NB)

Presents several strategic techniques for unblocking marital therapy when an impasse has been reached. For each technique, the goals and applicability of the intervention are presented, as well as potential problems and modifications. All of these techniques employ the acceptance and amplification of the status quo. (Author/JAC)

Explores the relationship between leadership and the stimulation of successful change. (ER)

Examines the rationalizations used by educators to explain the failure of multicultural education and outlines mechanisms for change. (Author/MK)

In adopting the methods of rural sociology to study the diffusion of educational innovation, researchers have neglected a number of broader issues. Innovators should inform journals and relevant organizations during the course of the project. (BD)

Subjects (N=970) in five stages of smoking cessation completed test measuring 10 change processes: consciousness raising, dramatic relief, self-liberation, social liberation, counterconditioning, stimulus control, self-reevaluation, environmental reevaluation, reinforcement management, and helping relationship. Assessed 770 subjects six months…

Tested transtheoretical model of change positing stages through which smokers move as they successfully change their smoking habit. Subjects in precontemplation (n=166), contemplation (n=794), and preparation (n=506) stages were compared on smoking history, 10 processes of change, pretest self-efficacy, decisional balance, and one- and six-month…

Argues that entrepreneurs cannot use the same strategies as big businesses. Too much analysis can be harmful; by the time an opportunity is fully researched, it may no longer exist. Offers suggestion for screening losers, focusing on important issues, and integrating action and analysis. (JOW)

Discusses educational reform based on studies at the Center for the School of the Future at Utah State University. Topics include assessing change; and 14 issues that address how educational reformers have misperceived how progressive change can be brought about and stabilized as a continuous process within the educational system. (LRW)

Book banners are generally successful because they have a wide network of support, including national coalitions with sophisticated organizational methods--such as electing certain people to school boards. School officials should get organized and devise defensive strategies, such as inviting critics to class, asking what they would like to…

Directors from 50 of the 51 U.S. extension systems responded to a survey on efforts to globalize over a 20-year period. Directors recognize that globalization will become more integrated into future Extension programming. Between 1990-2000, 35 systems moved towards globalizing. Lack of financial resources, lack of time, concern about clientele…

This phenomenological study examined the stories of illiterate African American adults to determine the factors that led to their illiteracy. Narrative techniques were utilized to discern themes from narrative accounts of eight participants. The participants were enrolled in one of two adult basic education programs referred to as ABE I and ABE…

China has attracted a huge amount of interest from around the world over the last two decades because of its rapid and vigorous development. Rapid economic growth has brought with it significant structural reforms in all trades and professions across China. Within this context of rapid social change, the Chinese basic education system has been…