This booklet contains abstracts of papers presented at the 1974 conference of the Keystone State (Pennsylvania) Reading Association--the theme of the meeting was "humanism in reading." Abstracts are grouped according to the following "strands," or topics: early childhood, literacy and multilingual/multicultural education, research, critical reading and thinking, word analysis, organizational arrangements, media, diagnosis and prescription, secondary and content fields, teacher education, and affective aspects of reading and learning. The remarks of guest speaker Paul F. Brandwein are summarized, and an index lists convention participants. Committee members and 1974 state officers are also identified. (KS)