Audiovisual aids and instructional media have advantages: they are of use in training, they permit self instruction, they allow widespread exposure to expert teachers. They also present difficulties: they are expensive, they require reorganization and careful selection of staff and equipment, they require decisions as to what programs to use or…

Social change in the 1960's has created a new climate for literary expression in the coming years. In order to emphasize the change in reading taste, and the corresponding change in writing fiction, the Oregon State Library sponsored a workshop dealing with book selection in this new era. Many communities in Oregon are conservative in their…

A FOLLOWUP STUDY WAS REPORTED THAT ENLARGED THE SCOPE OF THE AUTHOR'S PREVIOUS STUDY OF THE OPPOSITE-FORM APPROACH USED BY STUDENTS IN TEST AND MEASUREMENT COURSES. THE STUDY HAD THREE PURPOSES--(1) TO INVESTIGATE THE RELIABILITIES OF OPPOSITE-FORM INVENTORIES, (2) TO CROSS VALIDATE OPPOSITE-FORM INVENTORIES, AND (3) TO STUDY THE PATTERNING OF…

This chapter of "The Best of the Best of ERIC" contains 12 annotations of documents and journal articles on textbook selection and controversy, all of which are indexed in the ERIC system. Materials on censorship, case studies of textbook controversies, the image of minority groups in textbooks, and other topics are annotated. (DS)

Transcripts of speeches as well as the Outline of How to Plan a Workshop are included in this proceedings report. It contains the texts of individual presentations by Bay Area Reference Center staff covering the following topics: The Workshop Planners, Assessing Needs, Preparing Workshop Objectives, Defining the Audience, The Time, The Place, The…

An analysis of seven major corporations' attitudes and responses toward hiring qualified blind employees in competitive jobs is presented. Emphasis is placed on specific problems of communication, preconceptions, presentation, and credibility faced by vocational counselors and blind applicants on the open job market. (Author/EC)

Methods for ranking journals to describe the cost effectiveness of journal acquisition are explored. (PF)

Faculty members completed the Job Resume Questionnaire. An experimental group was given data on faculty opinion and asked to construct a resume. A positive relationship existed between faculty responses to the questionnaire and actual items appearing on the resumes constructed by the experimental group. (Author)

In an attempt to determine more about employment interviews at a college placement center, 183 employment interviews were monitored. Results indicate that 75 percent of the interviewers had made decisions before interview completion, but only 25 percent of decisions were made before the half-way point of the interview. (Author)

Examined which of two sociological theories of dating preference was more powerful in predicting women's actual dating frequency. The theories tested were Waller's theory, which emphasizes physical attractiveness, and Blood's theory, which emphasizes personality. Evidence supported Waller's theory. Discussion and implications for women and…

Analyzes several poems to show that many poems for children reflect faulty techniques, concepts, language usage, rhythms, rhymes, and imagery; argues that no poem is good enough for children that is not good enough for adults. (GT)

Telephone interviews can save college and candidates time and money while precluding the judging of job candidates by extraneous factors. A format for a successful telephone interview is suggested. (Author/MLF)

The article examines some of the considerations involved in the development of the job placement specialist in the rehabilitation of handicapped persons. (DLS)

IRA/CBC cites books published in the United States in 1977 which were chosen by children as their favorites. (MKM)

The development of film services and use in the public library is described from its beginning in 1910 to the present. The rationale presented is based on examination of certain keys periods in this development and takes into consideration both library practice and its theoretical basis. (MBR)