A Minneapolis/St. Paul telephone survey revealed that most people interviewed relied on radio weather reports for weather information, that the amount of weather information retained from radio and television forecasts was minimal, and that most people were satisfied with television weather reports. (GW)

A multilingual terminology bank, a data base consisting of multilingual terminology which acts as a computerized dictionary, is accessible to translators on-line or through hard-copy printouts. Surveys, interviews, and reviews of the literature have been used to design a bank suitable for a small institution. Design specifications are discussed.…

Decisions regarding budget matters are complex; therefore, information sharing between the executive and legislative branches is helpful and necessary. Budget reforms have been initiated, but future trends indicate the need for flexibility and revision of information pathways. (MBR)

Describes the broad scope of publications and information content in both printed and computer-readable versions of Chemical Abstracts Service Source Index (CASSI), including special characteristics, growth rates, and the use of CASSI as a union list. A discussion of the uses of CASSI which are possible through searching the computer-readable file…

One school librarian from the rural west, "Roughing It from Alaska to Oklahoma," and another from the urban east, "Back to Basics in New York," share some of their experience-tested ideas for maintaining effective instructional media centers with very little money. (JPF)

Reviews the problem of translations and children's books; and explains what bilingual books with a limited vocabulary are available, why anything published in a Spanish-speaking country is likely to be better than books published in the United States, and why a bilingual book is better if originally written in Spanish and translated into English.…

This listing of bibliographies, indexes, and other information sources, which were published or began or ceased publication in 1976, includes guides to Federal and state official publications, university theses and dissertations, and various media formats, as well as bibliographies of special subjects and indexes of periodicals. (JAB)

Discusses a study designed to assess the impact of information use patterns in an individual's process of creativity. (MH)

Provisions of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act are outlined, with examples of the rights of persons seeking credit. A list of federal offices to write for information or to send complaints to is included. (MF)

This article tells how to start a high school course in motorcycle maintenance and includes names and addresses of some motorcycle manufacturers and a list of needed tools, equipment, and materials. (MF)

Indicates that evaluative messages are the most effective public service announcements and that the subjective norm component of the Fishbein model had the most influence. (RL)

Finds that student journalists reacted differently to--and wrote different stories about--a woman news source who spoke about a rape crisis center, depending on whether they had been told that the woman was herself a rape victim. (GW)

Among its services, the Technical Assistance Development System at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill provides printed periodicals, monographs, and books to its client organizations involved in early childhood education for the handicapped. (STS)

Investigated credibility of sources of information about alcohol among high school students (N=76). Students rated their own experience with alcohol and the information provided by a recovered alcoholic as most credible and rated the information provided by a friend who drinks as least credible. (Author/ABL)

Teachers should cite the source of a borrowed idea; professors should be as original in their presentation of material as they expect their students to be in their course papers. Instructors who allow the impression that discourse taken from others is their own are plagiarizing. (MLW)