Reviews a few authors (from Louisa May Alcott to Francesca Lia Block) who have had a significant effect on young adult (YA) literature and who are most familiar to the author. Presents a starting point for a discussion or study of the foundations of YA literature. (SG)

Presents recommendations of six excellent works of fiction that fall between short story and novella. Concludes that the short story will continue to be the staple of the one-semester literature course, but for those instructors who would like to add a longer piece or two without committing to a full-scale novel, theses stories are worth…

Discusses the issues colleges and universities face when choosing furniture for residence halls, including aesthetics, durability, student expectations, technology-friendliness, and encouragement of community. (EV)

Asserts that often school theater can be controversial since plays often portray sexism, sexual content, crude language, smoking, and drinking. Suggests that teachers should create a balance among administrative concerns, school policy, parent feedback, the dictates of conscience, and the best interest of students. (PM)

Partially replicated Japanese study by examining transition from arranged to free-choice marriages in Chinese ever-married women (n=586). The results revealed that the role of parents had declined sharply, whereas young people more and more dominated the process of mate selection. However there was still little sign of a "dating culture"…

Twelve factors should be considered in justifying techniques selected for treating aberrant behavior in persons with mental retardation. The factors include motivational variables, treatment effectiveness, side effects, abuse potential, treatment restrictiveness/intrusiveness, treatment precedence, social acceptability, regulatory factors, staff…

Discusses the expanding role of public libraries in providing videos to the community and describes existing reference, selection, and current awareness tools to aid in video selection. Materials described include books, mass media magazines, professional journals, videos, review indexes, and directories. (CLB)

Addressed underlying demographic correlates of interracial marriage as distinct among Black women and men. Found that interracially married tended to be younger, more likely to have been married before, and more distant in age from their spouses. Persons born in North and foreign countries were more likely to be married to non-Blacks. (Author/NB)

Developed criteria for selection of career development program appropriate for mentally ill. Mentally ill persons who participated in Self-Directed Search (SDS) showed significant change on My Vocational Situation Identity Scale. Findings support selection of SDS as program and feasibility of offering career development services to mentally ill.…

Defines data base for Army Selection and Classification Project (Project A) as containing two major samples: concurrent validation sample and longitudinal validation sample. Describes data base resulting from concurrent sample, sampling procedure, distribution of sample sizes over jobs, total array of variables, and data collection procedures.…

Describes the Army's Project A effort to scale the relative utility of different levels of performance across entry-level jobs, or Military Occupational Specialties. Explains how combined procedure incorporating interval estimation and ratio estimation method was used to estimate utility of 5 different performance levels for each of 276 jobs.…

Tests hypothesized relationships between the media richness model and the symbolic interactionist perspective with data from 94 managers. Finds that managers tend to select the face-to-face medium for highly equivocal communications and written media for clear, objective communications. (MG)

Suggests reference sources most appropriate for a desert island. In addition to "Robinson Crusoe" (Daniel Defoe) and a reference guide to the literature of travel, the list includes basic books on reference work, guides to reference sources, journals, an almanac, encyclopedias, a guide to English usage, and a book of quotations. (14 references)…

Although job analysis has been a cornerstone of human resource development systems, many professionals view it as cumbersome and often abandon the process. It is necessary to know what a job is before one can intelligently hire, train, and evaluate the person who does it. (Author/JOW)

Argues that secondary school students should read complete literary texts, rather than excerpts. Discusses why reading whole texts is important. (MM)