Speech given before the American Association of School Librarians (Atlantic City, N.J., June 26, 1969).

Discusses the various forms of support business and industry can give to career education and the reasons for that support. (JOW)

Examines the basic premises, strategies, and actions necessary to organize and maintain private sector support for career education. (Author)

Looks at the complex relationships between parents and their adult children, discussing factors such as the development of interpersonal relationships and of an independent means of economic support. (SK)

Discusses the principles of advertising that will help student newspapers generate advertising revenues in an effort to become financially independent. (HTH)

Academic librarians who need grants to support research should consider how funding agents approach grant proposals: funding agents look for good, well-researched ideas in their areas of interest that are backed up with pragmatic plans of action and sound budgets, and will be carried out by well-qualified people. (Author)

The article examines misconceptions regarding learning assistance, a term referring to financial support given to school systems to help them develop noncategorical services for mildly handicapped students. Confusion between this term and learning disabilities is noted. (CL)

Public library services are threatened by a national mood of economic conservatism. Librarians should actively combat the threat by defending services, making collective decisions, resisting inflation, seeking federal support, responding to charges from politicians, and increasing efficiency. (FM)

Description by prisoners of the development of small wing libraries conceived by the Inmate Library Committee at Soledad Prison. Problems of censorship of materials is discussed, as is the overall success of the libraries in the prison. (AP)

Argues that instructional technologists must put more effort into public relations in the face of decreasing financial support. (BD)

A broad introduction to the background, problems, and prospects for foundation support of non-commercial broadcasting in the U. S. (Editor)

A survey of volunteers, offenders, and prison personnel in a volunteer mentoring program in Oklahoma prisons uncovered problems caused by inadequate mentor training due to lack of resources. Lack of funds forces correctional agencies to use volunteers, but it also prevents them from using them effectively. (SK)

Explores prevalent assumptions about what religious organizations are and do, how they fit into the independent or nonprofit sector, and what is reasonable to expect of or for them. Reviews basic facts about the nature, scope, operations, and support of religious organizations, examining their levels of independence. Focuses on the basic…

Briefly describes history of public-school funding, including tuition and charity-support schools and flat grants. Discusses contemporary school-funding approaches from the perspective of educational equity and educational adequacy: the foundation method, extra funding for poor children, and funding tied to student learning. (Contains 12…

Spending a fixed fraction of endowment, under plausible assumptions about returns, produces endowment levels in the far future that are lognormally distributed. Mean endowment grows more rapidly than median endowment. If a university wants median endowment to grow at a particular target rate, it must set a certain spending fraction explained in…