Reports reflections of library school reference teacher who practiced for year as day-to-day reference librarian. Highlights include ideal reference librarianship; concepts helpful in explaining low morale; changes in basic reference service elements (information resources, clients, librarians); current coping strategies; and ways in which to cope…

Concentrates on four specialized indexes that are devoted exclusively to personnel and human resources topics: "Personnel Literature,""Personnel Management Abstracts,""Human Resources Abstracts," and "Work Related Abstracts." A concluding section compares strengths and weaknesses of these publications to three broader indexes: "The Business…

Discusses nine factors to consider when attempting to determine what kind of information and how much information a superintendent should supply to a school board concerning district operations. (PGD)

Reports on a study in which college students wrote compositions that elicited their technical knowledge of three topics, then completed a questionnaire that assessed which of four information sources had contributed to their knowledge of the topics--formal education, mass media, social interaction, and direct experience. (FL)

The author presents a sampling of some companies with preretirement or retirement preparation programs; lists some basic areas of concern for a company's preretirement program; suggests strategies for presenting retirement information; and offers a list of organizations to contact for more information about retirement and preretirement. (CT)

Presents the various aspects and "how to's" of job search strategies. Includes resources for job information, traditional sources of job leads, and several innovative approaches to the job search, such as networking, the information interviews, and marketing one's way to employment. (CT)

Concludes that people selectively attend to campaign information based on its editorial format rather than its orignating format and that a surveillance/vote guidance motivation to attend to a campaign is more strongly related to degree of selectivity than is a diversion motivation. (FL)

Reviews Logo programming language's developmental history, including Papert's vision, creation of LISP, and evolution of Logo from LISP; discusses reasons for Logo not becoming a commonplace programming language; describes Logo program design and its utility for serious programmers; and lists sources of further information on Logo. (MBR)

Resources pertinent to teaching assistants at colleges are identified. The listing includes general books on teaching, handbooks designed for the TA, discipline-centered materials, videotapes and other materials for use in workshops, and organizations that can provide workshops and other opportunities to contact resource persons. (Author/SW)

Investigates (1) who has the skills to access information by videotex and (2) to whom the service appeals. Concludes that computers and videotex are closely linked and that people who use computers have more positive attitudes toward videotex than those who do not. (FL)

Diagrams a research or bibliographic loop that gives order and direction to the research process by enabling students to go beyond the usual unsystematic reliance on such limited and elementary resources as "The Reader's Guide." Includes a general explanation of the loop, illustrating its use in recent research. (HTH)

Reports on a study that found that public relations practitioners respond in different ways to different moral-ethical dilemmas and that they tend to think they are accountable in some situations to an authority higher than management. Concludes that subjectivism is the prevailing moral-ethical theory of practitioners. (FL)

Eleven recent major reports on the status of American education are listed and their availability noted. Other synopses, related materials, and individual and organizational information sources are also outlined. (MSE)

Discusses several aspects of software evaluation, suggesting that software should fit into an existing course and that students and faculty colleagues should be involved in the evaluation process. Also provides sources of evaluation guides, actual educational software evaluations, and software awareness materials. (JN)

Sociology resources housed in the campus library potentially offer valuable support for a department's instructional efforts. Provided is a strategy for (1) evaluating an existing library collection; (2) correcting extant deficiencies; and (3) maintaining the balance and quality of the collection on an ongoing basis. (Author/RM)