While scientific progress has developed toward interdisciplinary and broad-scope technologies, information resources have become increasingly fragmented and specialized. What is needed is more attention to the intellectual input and output of information systems, focusing on actual user needs. (2 references) (Author/NH)

Precise recommendations were submitted to Unesco by the experts attending: the need for exchange of informat on, for improved bibliographic control of Latin American educational literature, for specialist staff training and for organization of a network of educational documentation centers. (JB)

Lists publications providing job information for 40 states and the District of Columbia, including those in process, describes coverage and present status, and provides an address for further information. (BH)

The brief guide designed to delineate the objectives and decision-making steps necessary to organize and execute a successful search of the educational literature, places emphasis on the search a doctoral candidate must conduct to identify a topic for a doctoral dissertation. (Author/NH)

In order to obtain exhaustive coverage of the library and information science literature, a user must still refer to all three English-language abstracting services. (9 references) (MM)

The dimensions of the book storage problem vary from rigid to flexible and from conventional to futuristically hazy. The library network, conceived as a channel of access to information, has definite promise of assistance--but not total solution--for storage problems. (NH)

In the areas of adult development and adult learning, research is seldom confined to observable behavior. Therefore, documentary records of human experience should be used. (JOW)

Reports that middle-level Chinese government officials are given almost verbatim translations of selected news stories and commentary from around the world in a publication called "News for Reference," which is widely distributed in China by the Hsinhua news agency. (FL)

Concludes that Canadian newspapers serving a specific geographic area or region exhibit many similarities. (FL)

Presents the findings of a survey of members of the American Society of Newspaper Editors revealing that they were ambivalent about the use of veiled attribution. Notes that editors of larger rather than smaller papers were more likely to see the need for it. (FL)

Explores the effects of identifying ethnicity in the community on the development of libraries, and offers suggestions for designing a questionnaire which will provide a source of information about community needs. (FM)

Some of a group of 143 consumers were given a choice between higher-priced, higher-quality items and items with lower price and quality but higher value index (benefit/cost tradeoff); others were given price and quality information only. Consumers were more likely to choose lower-priced, higher-value options when the index information was…

Explores theoretical and professional perspectives on the organizational whistle-blower, and examines the public relations function of framing and disseminating critical information. Urges organizations to tell the truth, but be cautious of journalists whose motives center on ratings and sensationalism. (RS)

Describes discussion groups, newsgroups, Web sites, and electronic publications on the topics of volunteering and volunteer management. (SK)

The Journal of Extension became completely electronic in 1994. A 1996 e-mail survey received 534 responses from 2,037 subscribers indicating that 32.9% access it through the World Wide Web, 29.5% via e-mail, and 11% through gopher. Access was equitable across job types, and 72.9% liked the electronic format. (SK)