This paper examines the factors that govern identification of place in its environment, its literature, and its description as presented to the reference librarian by the genealogical researcher. Toponyms and exonyms, their elements of activity, status, extent, focus, and boundaries are examined, explicated, and defined. The techniques, sources,…

The purpose of this study is to suggest another source of information to be used for evaluating our teacher education programs. (Author)

A complete subject/title listing for 1973's articles and columns. (Author)

Article considered the efficiency of the DES in supplying statistics on teachers' pay and the implications derived from their data collection. (RK)

Article attempted to clarify and elaborate the informational, self-evaluative basis of social comparison theory by focusing on two problems relating to assumptions of the theory. (Author/RK)

The development of new information sources of matriculating college freshmen follows the general pattern of initially desiring academically related news and within a month desiring campus social news. During the freshman year, an increase in the consumption of general news nearer the student's campus residence occurs. (Author)

The present installment continues the updating service and supplements coverage contained in MMRI-1972. (Author)

The Mulit-Media Reviews Index is compiled on a cooperative indexing basis by professional AV Personnel and librarians from coast to coast. The present installment continues the up-dating service begun in the October 1971 issue of Audiovisual Instruction, and supplements coverage contained in MMRI-1972. (Author)

Five articles by newsmen who have been jailed for refusing to answer questions regarding news sources are given. Each article describes the circumstances of these confrontations between individual freedoms and state laws. (KM)

Information sources to assist teachers and students in making a smooth and efficient transition to the metric system include an annotated bibliography of literature dealing with the history and present state of measurement in the U.S., with the metric system generally, and with problems involved in metric conversion. (Author/KM)

A detailed guide to the major sources of printed broadcast legal documents. (Author)

The program described has the primary objective of making Federally generated technology and research information available to public and private agencies. Cost analysis, data banks, and search strategies are explained. (Author/DH)

A comparison of different tracking methods used to locate respondents is presented. (PS)

A list of ERIC documents, with abstracts, on reading and technology. (HB)

A study to determine the relationships between the sources of information used at the different stages of adoption of innovative ideas and practices and the characteristics of the users. The study was conducted among farmers in India of varying ages, levels of occupation, and having varying sizes of holdings. (Author/JB)