This report presents the recommendations of 35 workshops participants, drawn from a variety of backgrounds and information environments, which was organized to: (1) highlight the role of subject access with the emphasis on the needs of the information seeker; (2) compare techniques for subject access now being used in the library and the…

This book discusses specific ways managers and supervisors can initiate change among their employees, understand resistance to change, and gain employee cooperation. It outlines techniques for preventing resistance, quickly detecting it when it arises, identifying its causes, and designing strategies to effectively reduce it. The book also…

An argument is made that all counseling should be aimed at eventually transforming helpees into helpers. The method of achieving this aim is to develop the client's skills of behavior change. The manner of encouraging these "counselor skills" involves the achievement of self-acceptance through two possible approaches: Magic and self-control.…

This study of nine Little League teams revolved around the following problems and questions: (a) role or status of Little League baseball as sport or athletics; (b) conflict in the interface of local, provincial, national, and international organizations; (c) relative significance of variables of technical skills, administrative decision-making,…

This monograph identifies and synthesizes some of the most important issues that can effect the performance of a psychoeducational consultant. It begins by describing the major modes of consultation in their situational contexts. Although the differences among the four major modes--provision, prescription, mediation, and collaboration--are…

Every trainer and training director should take a close look at his or her habits--good and bad ones. The author provides a series of questions that, when answered by trainers will help them change or get rid of a habit or develop a new one. (BP)

Reduced intellectual performance in the elderly was conceptualized as an experiential dificit that can be reversed by training relevant component skills. Female elderly subjects (N=60) participated in three phases of the experiment: Training, Immediate Posttest, and Delayed Posttest. Training was geared at strengthening covert self-monitoring…

Discusses special considerations affecting organizational development (OD) programs in public-sector organizations, presents guidelines for using OD procedures in the public sector, and offers conclusions about the applicability of OD in the public sector. (Author/JG)

Electroencephalograms of 20 alcoholics and 20 nonalcoholics were obtained. Data indicated that alcoholics produced less alpha than nonalcoholics. In one training condition subjects were given accurate biofeedback, whereas in the other condition subjects were given random (noncontingent) feedback. Accurate biofeedback did not result in greater…

Discusses bibliographical problems caused by geographic names in subject cataloging, as well as procedures for establishing correct headings when name changes occur, and types of provisions to be made in subject catalog maintenance. Typical changes of geographic names in Africa are used as samples. (MBR)

Arkansas, 50th of the states in education according to most national standards, is moving community education from a program to a process to accommodate change. (Author/MLF)

Causes for an expanded educational role for academic libraries are identified and discussed, and factors influencing change are described, including improving the ratio of professional to support staff, success of librarian/faculty interaction, and participation by librarians on university-wide committees, need for librarians to acquire new skills…

Interrelated reasons for the Library of Congress postponing adoption of AACR 2 are discussed, and ten suggestions are given which could facilitate the transition to alternative forms of library catalogs. A glossary of contemporary cataloging terms is included. (JPF)

If we are serious about developing healthy people, we must become revolutionaries, because the values that promote positive health are clearly the inverse of those of present society. With more realistic goals, however, we may find that we can accomplish much more than we think. (Author)

The counseling of minority clients has never been considered a real issue in Canadian schools. The studies discussed in this article point to the inadequacies and inappropriateness of prevailing models of counseling. (Author/AM)