This article justifies the development of an international system for classifying education and explains the classification's structures, categories and applications. (KM)

The impact of a bibliographic retrieval/card production system, such as the Ohio College Library Center (OCLC), on the cataloging procedures of the large academic library is examined. (11 references) (Author/RS)

SVIB scores were available on samples of artists, farmers, ministers, physicists, real estate men and newsmen. A typological analysis applied separately to the 14 SVIB interest scores recovered all six groups when total scores were used, but only five groups when items responses were used as descriptors. (Author)

The author has identified two basic ways to reduce the high cost of cataloging. First, create guidelines or standards for publishers to follow when creating title pages. Second, simplify the cataloging rules especially in authorship designations. (8 references) (DH)

The article utilizes a typology of race groups to explain social distance (race relations) in Hawaii. (FF)

The problem of developing numerical methods for classification in the sciences is examined, with a discussion of classification strategies included. (DT)

The theory as it relates to occupational classification and Holland's scheme of consistent patternings was supported. However, no evidence was found to support the hypothesis that congruent, consistent, and homogeneous personality patterns are more closely related to high training achievement than are noncongruent, inconsistent, and heterogeneous…

Support for the operation of internal factors in cognitive development was provided by an obtained increase from first to second posttest scores. Two conservations were considered to be involved--conservation of the whole and of the part. (Author)

Comments are given on: the 18th edition of the Decimal Classification, the MARC Automated Serials System (MASS) project, and the Cataloging and Indexing Group's survey of catalog use. (11 references) (NH)