Library Journal" takes a long hard look at the American Library Association's Conference Program for Dallas, and presents a tentative guide for the Conference-goer. (Author)

The American Library Association's Social Responsibilities Round Table Task Force on Our Affair in Dallas presents a program to help interested librarians get together. (MF)

White House Conferences on Children and Youth, an idea originated by James E. West, have been held at approximately 10-year intervals during this century: 1909, 1919, 1930, 1940, 1950, and 1960. Although called by the President, and with one or more sessions usually having been held in the White House (from which the name of the conferences…

Described is the International Union of Biological Sciences and its functions. The United States National Committee is also described. (RH)

This paper gives an overview of the INTER Project, which was the starting point of the Conference, then it describes the INTER Guide as its main output and the Conference held to present the project results. The authors have also selected two keynote speeches from the conference and two additional presentations that they felt would be of interest…

The entire second part of the October issue presents the program for the 28th Annual Meeting of the Gerontological Society. Abstracts of papers are included. (EJT)

Describes an experimental Young Author's conference for secondary school students. Notes that bringing together young writers and professional authors provides incentive for writing, as well as an authentic audience and purpose. (RS)

Reviews the educational goals in physics of several international organizations that promote collaboration and encourage educational development throughout the world. Offers a rationale for attending international conferences sponsored by these organizations. (CS)

Novak and Iuli [Novak, J. D. & Iuli, R. J. (1991). The use of meta-cognitive tools to facilitate knowledge production. In "A paper presented at the fourth Florida AI research symposium (FLAIRS '91)," Pensacola Beach, FL, May, 1991.] discuss the use of Concept Maps as meta-cognitive tools that help people to think about thinking. This work…

Discussing the "Whole Language and More '93" meeting, this paper presents a series of helpful how-to's (and some valuable caveats) for those involved in conference planning. The first part of the paper presents a discussion of 10 steps the conference organizer would take again, including: promoting the conference; organizing various…

A large section of the September issue presents the program, committees, and speakers for the 61st Annual Conference of the International Association of Pupil Personnel Workers. Constitution and by-laws for the association are also presented. (EJT)

This final Bulletin of the National Institute reviews the activities it has sponsored since June 1966. Major articles report the four Student/Beginning Teacher Conferences to evolve recommendations for new conceptual models of teacher education; the Conference on New Curriculum Materials and the Teaching of the Disadvantaged; the Professors in the…