Reports the activities of IFLA's Round Table of Libraries for the Blind to develop library services, including the production of audiomaterials in standardized formats to facilitate copying for exchange or borrowing. Current projects are concerned with copyright, formats, postal regulation and custom law, international relations, bibliographic…

Explores some possibilities for literacy links with hypermedia technology. Discusses stepping beyond multimedia; examples of hypermedia software; response to hypermedia; research supporting hypermedia's effectiveness in reading instruction; and future technology in the reading classroom. (RS)

Including relevant fiction along with digitized history helps the reader to deal effectively with the various letters, photos, and census records or the individual pieces of history revealed. For educational, social, psychological, and biological reasons, fiction is important in the study of history. Not only can novels and stories be valuable…

Four articles discuss various aspects of the integration of the seven USMARC bibliographic formats. Areas discussed include the handling of additions and subtractions, handling of serials and mixed media, planning for the coordination of the implementation of format integration, and the results of an operational test comparing the current and…

Describes the facilities, collections and services of the Cincinnati Zoo Media Center Library. Plans for the future expansion of an extensive slide collection are discussed. (CLB)

Discusses the importance of microform reviews as a tool for library collection development and offers advice to microform reviewers. A formula for microform evaluation is presented which covers intellectual content, institutional need, price, bibliographic control, and technical quality and format. (five references) (CLB)

Print public relations (calendars, newsletters, and annual reports) are not enough. Schools need effective two-way public relations programs that are high-priority, have adequate budgets and staff training, capitalize on new technologies, involve local education reporters, and feature board meetings and informal luncheons held throughout the…

Reports on an investigation which utilized multidimensional scaling (MDS) of paired comparison judgments as a means of evaluating representations for moving image documents. Discusses implications of the findings for visual information retrieval and the development of digital video collections. (Author/AEF)

Describes fourth- to sixth-grade level activities designed to enhance science learning through the identification of science concepts and misconceptions found in the media, and by underscoring the relevance of science to everyday life. (Contains 17 references.) (ASK)

Focuses on teaching HTML scripting and/or Web-page writing, as well as evaluating Web pages according to basic criteria. Maps a pedagogy for hypertext writing. Discusses issues of audience and purpose, design, contextualized hyperlinks, navigability, color schemes, and image, audio, and video integration. Notes that balancing between effective…

Considers three issues: whether conversion to digital form is a preservation action; the contrasts between selection for digital conversion and selection for traditional preservation; and the potential effects on the field of preservation. Includes an appendix listing cost elements of digital conversion. (AEF)

Building models to describe processes forms an essential part of molecular biology research. However, in molecular biology curricula little attention is generally being paid to the development of this skill. In order to provide students the opportunity to improve their model building skills, we decided to develop a number of digital cases about…

The author's favourite film musical is "The King and I." Of the several catchy songs in the film her favourite is "Getting to know you," which is sung firstly by the governess to the children and then the children to her. The author hereby declares this to be "The Song of Science," with "you" being the "system" being studied (e.g. plant, elastic…

In this essay, the author intends to review some of the leading proposals concerning the putative ontological differences between TV and film. The author attempts to undermine these alleged distinctions, generally arguing that they are based on too narrow a conception of TV (and sometimes of film). Specifically, the recurring problem is that these…

When Morris Dees was a young man in Alabama, the law said that black people couldn't drink from the same water fountain as white people, or sit at the same lunch counter. Back then, the government created and sanctioned divisions between human beings. The Civil Rights Movement changed all of that, of course, and ended state-mandated apartheid in…