Designed for use by cooperative education instructors, counselors, librarians, students, and teachers, this career bibliography identifies more than 2,000 sources of occupational information (e.g., government agencies, professional associations, private businesses) which offer over 5,000 free or inexpensive job-related publications. Five hundred…

This guide is intended as a resource manual and activity sourcebook for elementary school teachers, librarians, administrators, curriculum planners, and teacher educators for teaching proper methods for selecting, using, maintaining, and disposing of flammable products and ignition sources. Basic product safety messages are developed for matches,…

While this guide was designed specifically for teachers in Montgomery County, Maryland, Schools, much of the material can be used by individuals nationwide. Contents include nature studies, pollution, energy, land use, environmental design, recreation, and government and the public aspect. Resources listed under these headings include films,…

The guide identifies approximately 100 anthropology source materials in the reference department of McLennan Library at McGill University. It was designd to help students doing anthropological research and to illustrate the variety of materials on social and cultural anthropology in the McLennan Library. Physical anthropolgy, linguistics, and…

In this document several questions about the meaning of court ordered school desegregation in Milwaukee are addressed. Racial and demographic factors and educational policies preceding the 1976 court decision that the Milwaukee schools were illegally segregated are reviewed chronologically. The content of the court decision is discussed. Other…

This paper discusses early identification of children with developmental handicaps, a subject highlighted recently through the creation of federal and state sponsored Early Periodic Screening Programs (EPSDT). The Minnesota Child Development Inventory (MCDI) provides a systematic means of obtaining parental (usually maternal) information about the…

This guide, designed for teachers and community leaders attempting to answer questions being raised about population and population trends or developing population study programs, contains a selective list of information sources and written audiovisual resource materials. The resource guide is divided into five areas. The first group lists over 40…

This paper reviews the literature concerning a conceptual model that specifies the antecedent variables that produce selective exposure and the mediating variables that justify why a person selectively exposes himself or herself to information. Two advantages accrue from the model described in the literature. First, the model enhances the…

This study was designed to explore two questions: do a listener's reactions differ by media; and do variables such as credibility, saliency, and recall function independently in realistic rhetorical situations? The study was designed to investigate listening variables as they function in field communication situations through the use of…

The need for management information by college and university administrators is becoming more intense. Recognizing that computerized information systems have not been able to satisfy this growing need, an alternative approach to the preparation of management information is described. This approach places the needs of decision makers before those…

The "Audiovisual Market Place" is a register of organizations, firms, and personnel in The AV industry as well as a buyers' guide for those who purchase instructional materials and those who buy services in the area of media production. Twenty-five sections are grouped under three major areas of interest: AV softward, AV hardware, and…

Since recorded usage of vertical files in a university library does not always indicate actual needs of patrons, a study was conducted on the use of a collection of 20,000 pamphlets over a three-year period (1972-75). Data were collected from circulation records and from a questionnaire circulated with each pamphlet. Three subject areas had the…

Developed as part of an exemplary career education program for junior high school students, the guide describes a career guidance resource center designed to bring together all of a particular school's career guidance materials into one location where occupational, vocational, and educational information is readily available for individual student…

"How can I best keep up with the mushrooming cloud of environmental news?" This bibliography of environmental periodicals was compiled as a guide to help a person identify the environmental periodical which will best fit his interests and needs. The bibliography is divided into three sections: Annotated Periodicals, Secondary Information Sources,…

Planned to provide management and training officials throughout the Federal Government with up-to-date information on agency operated training centers, this directory gives, for each center, the purpose, programs or courses offered, eligibility for attendance, and sources for further information. Ten regional centers of the Civil Service…