This report presents the results of a study of the amount of photocopying of library materials by library staff in United States libraries. A national survey was conducted from a sample of public, academic, special, and federal libraries to determine the annual volume of photocopying undertaken for interlibrary loans, local users, and intrasystem…

This newsletter from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) contains a description of the purposes and potentials of the Space Shuttle craft. The illustrated document explains some of the uses for which the shuttle is designed; how the shuttle will be launched from earth, carry out its mission, and land again on earth; and what a…

This study sought evidence that the switch to electronic news gathering (ENG) by local television stations has changed news selection or news presentation. A content analysis was performed during five days of newscasts at three network-operated Los Angeles television stations that were in various stages of converting to total ENG. Although the…

The ten papers in this collection, which include articles and transcripts of panel discussions and speeches, deal with many aspects of public relations. Topics discussed include the need to improve the reputation of public relations; how to run a press room at a national convention; issues involved in serving as spokesperson for a state governor;…

The concept of a United States citizen's right to receive information is acquiring increased judicial recognition. This report traces the evolution of that right from its philosophical basis in the United States Consitution, through its interpretation by the Supreme Court, up to the current concern that the public receive certain economic…

A 1977 national survey of 216 television stations that use electronic news gathering (ENG) and of 224 stations that still use only film for camera reporting showed little difference in the types of news the two kinds of operations covered, although stations using ENG shot more stories than did those still using only film. The persons making…

Five speculations can be made about basal-series reading instruction: if it sells well, it may be bad; basal series may be based on marketing principles rather than educational principles; possession of a basal series by a school district tells llittle or nothing about the instruction in the school district that owns it; stories in basal series…

Canada is the second largest country in the world and contains two dominant languages and cultures, the French-speaking province of Quebec and the English-speaking border cities. To maintain some link between the two coasts, the government requires that its national broadcasting system contribute to the development of national unity and present a…

Although it is not without flaws, decentralization of the school administration--returning decision-making power to school principals and classroom teachers--can contribute to a return to humanistic education and to the elimination of assembly-line education. Researchers, curriculum developers, and educational publishers can help in this movement…

On 9 September 1976, the Aspen Institute Program on Communications and Society, the League of Women Voters, and the Post/Newsweek Broadcast Stations sponsored a public meeting in New York. The subject of the meeting was politics and television; the participants were leading political advertisers, journalists, and researchers. This monograph…

Discusses the mass media and education, arguing that the crucial phenomenon is the industrialization of the mind: the mind-making industry is viewed as a product of the last hundred years which has developed at such a pace and assumed such varied forms that it has outgrown understanding and control. (Author/JM)

In 1974, library activities involving microforms and microform publishing both made progress in spite of a tight economy. (PF)

Advocates that students pursuing the study of chemistry be kept aware of the nature of chemistry outside the academic world. Methods include co-op programs with chemical industries, specific instruction in areas of industrial import, and laboratory work with an industrial flavor. (GS)

This testimony, before a public hearing of the New York City Commission on Human Rights in May 1974, is stated to focus primarily on the effects of housing market segregation and discrimination on the welfare of black Americans; findings of economic research indicate that Negro households at all income levels are impeded by housing market…