To insure the future of our National Parks, sweeping changes must be made. Encroaching civilization at the expense of nature has forced National Park officials to consider alternatives to future development - limiting number of visitors, facilities outside the parks and curtailing vehicular traffic. (BL)

The plain fact about information science...is that its practitioners do not know what they are talking about and are unable to describe the product they are trying to produce. (16 references) (Author)

Indonesian multiple-element personal names cause problems to catalogers who have to establish these names. Research results showed that the inverted last element entries are to be preferred. (12 references) (Author/NH)

Suggestions of old and new ways to recycle waste" in the industrial-education lab are presented. (GB)

Paper presented at Annual Meeting of the National Association for Gifted Children (17th, New Orleans, Louisiana, November, 1969). (RD)

Discussion of the administration of the preservation of library materials presents observations of the field based on the author's experiences and briefly describes related programs conducted by Yale University Libraries, Association of Research Libraries Office of Management Studies, and School of Library Service at Columbia University. Four…

A roundtable of Soviet academicians addressed the problem of extending educational research to higher education, with emphasis on better preparation of university students for their vocations and on lessons to be learned from Soviet research on pedagogy and educational psychology related to primary and secondary schools. (IM)

Recounts some of the problems encountered in the use of an Osborne-1 microcomputer for personal purposes by a computing veteran, describes some of the shortcomings of the sales system for microcomputers as it presently exists, and makes some conjectures concerning the impact of those shortcomings on the personal computer industry. (JL)

Argues that trends toward overspecialization in arts and design education have made it difficult for sculptors and architects to collaborate in the design of public spaces. Available from Carfax Publishing Company, P.O. Box 25, Abingdon, Oxfordshire OX14 1RW England. (AM)

Describes the role of the guardian "ad litem"--a person invested with the power and duty to protect the rights and interests of a child (or incompetent person) involved in litigation. Areas of consensus arrived at during the first national policy conference on the use of guardians "ad litem" are listed. (Author/RH)

The author discusses the subject of students visiting and doing coursework in foreign countries. She explains the philosophy of the concept, what is occurring in practice, the advantages, and the problems. (CT)

Discusses the problems of quality and cost-effectiveness of machine translation, with remarks on future needs and prospects. (AM)

Discusses the background for the evaluation of a new clinical course in medicine and possible methods and problems and outlines the planned strategy and initial experiences. (CHC)

Discusses the problems encountered and solutions adopted in application of the ADABAS database management system to the ECDIN (Environmental Chemicals Data and Information Network) data bank. SIMAS, the pilot system, and ADABAS are compared, and ECDIN ADABAS design features are described. Appendices provide additional facts about ADABAS and SIMAS.…