This article gives a choice list of basic reference works, plus names and addresses of information sources useful for teachers who prefer to do research and write their own units. (Author)

A listing, by classification of the content of programming for sale or rent, of over 250 organizations that make videotape programs and series available. (Author)

The legislative and executive branches share fiscal and budgeting information mainly through the President's annual budget which is disseminated in several ways. (MBR)

An expanded and updated directory to help libraries identify useful sources of information on energy for reference work referral, collection building, and curriculum support. It presents over 600 sources of print and nonprint information, from elementary level to professional and technical. (JPF)

Available from: Quill, 35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60601, $10.00, sc $1.00, monthly. Lists general reference works with which journalists and journalism students should be familiar, as well as sources of local information. (JM)

The patent system is reviewed with emphasis on its historical development, social and economic justifications, criticisms, and variations among countries. The primary information contained in patents makes them a useful addition to library collections. Several ways to gain bibliographical and physical access to the literature are discussed. (JPF)

Presented is a question and answer format designed by the Council for Exceptional Children to inform educators and parents about the Education for All Handicapped Children Act. Available from: Allen Raymond, Inc., P.O. Box 1223, Darien, Connecticut 06820. (GW)

This examination of bibliographies of four leading psychoanalytic journals (1974-79) yielded articles and books that could be called classics in psychoanalysis. The nine books and 21 articles listed in order of frequency are examined further by type of authorship, psychoanalytic specialty dealt with, language of publication, and availability. (7…

Concludes that major market local television newscasts include substantial doses of helplessness, most of it at extreme levels. Specifically, members of the general public are often presented as helpless, and, by implication, so are television viewers. (FL)

Reports that, overall, 80 percent of the national and international stories in "Time" and "Newsweek" contain anonymous attribution. (FL)

This 19-item annotated bibliography introducing the literature of artificial intelligence (AI) is arranged by type of material--handbook, books (general interest, textbooks, collected readings), journals and newsletters, and conferences and workshops. The availability of technical reports from AI laboratories at universities and private companies…

Reviews the history of the social sciences in America, indicating that the field is still chiefly a collection of topics, albeit important ones such as mental hospitals, child development, and eugenics. Also indicates that although source materials are vast, synthetic overviews are needed in a number of areas. (JN)

Describes a number of information sources for those conducting research. (FL)

Describes source for photographs, including collections at the Universities of Louisville and Texas. (PD)

Discusses the state of newspaper files. Reports on available newspaper collections and developments in these resources. (PD)