This study focuses on teenagers seeking care from a public venereal disease clinic and describes selected demographic characteristics, identifies reasons and factors causing them to seek clinic care, and identifies sources from which they received information concerning the clinic. (MJB)

In an effort to bring attention to the importance of utilizing local surroundings, for environmental studies, and to demonstrate that a city street can be transformed into an outdoor laboratory, members of the NJEA Environmental Education Committee conducted a field trip around the Atlantic City Convention Hall during last November's convention.…

Proposals are made for a goal oriented approach to coordinate bibliographic control in the multidisciplinary field of mental retardation, establish networks of information service, and provide consultants for setting up services in various institutions and locales. A review of existing efforts for bibliographic control, classification, and library…

Regional population networks identified and discussed include APLIC, POPINFORM, and POPLINE (North America and Europe), DOCPAL (Latin America), ESCAP (Asia), and PIDSA (Africa). Brief discussion of the POPINS proposal which appears to be emerging as a model program is also included. (JPF)

Evaluators often assume that outcome studies assessing agency effectiveness should provide the most relevant data for decision makers who must form judgments about treatment in order to make policy, program, and clinical decisions. Yet evaluators have found that decision makers often fail to use results of evaluation studies. (Author/CTM)

Investigates the effects of various source characteristics on the persuasiveness of communications in the area of public health and presents evidence suggesting that a peer appeal can be more effective than a persuasive attempt by a source from a different age group. (MH)

Publications related to sponsored programs of agencies and foundations that are used by research administrators are reported, based on a questionnaire survey of 650 of those administrators. The frequency of usage and effectiveness of the publications are also noted. For journal availability see HE 509 147. (LBH)

Investigated measures that match the advertisement to the "best" publication for the greatest exposure. (RL)

The roles played by the veterinary medical library and librarian in encouraging scholarly pursuits are examined and specific suggestions are offered for promoting excellence within the library itself. (LBH)

At a time when female education remained, at best, an afterthought, how were nineteenth-century women prepared to assume positions of responsibility in national organizations? An examination of the early life of Lucretia Mott, a spirited Quaker minister of that time, seems to suggest one set of answers. (Author/RK)

This guide to sources of information on Canadian librarianship lists bibliographies and guides, indexes, directories, journals, overviews, annual reviews and monographs, as well as selected publications of and about the National Library of Canada and its Library Documentation Centre. (Author/CLB)

Describes a method that can help student reporters select and cover a beat. (FL)

Discusses how the Janet Cooke scandal stimulated journalists to reflect on changes that had occurred in the field since the 1960s and to consider the increasingly visible contradictions of their own authority. Describes how Cooke symbolized both the increased presence of minorities in journalism and changes in reporting conventions. (JD)

There are 14 centers for economic education in the state of California. Films, videocassettes, and curriculum guides developed by the centers for use by economics teachers are described. The addresses of the centers are provided. (RM)

The knowledge, beliefs, and sources of information of high school students concerning AIDS were examined. Results are discussed. (Author/DF)