The report describes the results of a study of the extent and characteristics of coverage of the agricultural literature by the "Bibliography of Agriculture" (B of A). Statistical details regarding the language, national origin, form of publication, and subject coverage were derived from a sample of over 5000 citations from the 1967…

Prepared to familiarize educators with the wide variety of materials available for environmental education, this bibliography and resource guide lists curriculum materials which would be useful in kindergarten through adult levels of education. To facilitate use of the guide, it is divided into seven sections: (1) Books--dealing with environmental…

The use of readability principles in the ERIC guidelines for abstracting suggests that abstracts should be more readable than source documents. However, information theory suggests that the compression of information would result in less readable abstracts. Abstracts and their source documents were selected randomly from each of four…

This bibliography on career education would be useful to those interested in learning about both the career education concept and some of the emerging techniques for implementing career education programs. The bibliography is divided into four sections, including: (1) a listing of 144 selected references on the career education concept, (2) a…

The major aims of the "Annual Review of Information Science and Technology" are (1) to describe and appraise progress in information science and technology; (2) to provide a systematic, dependable tool that can relieve professionals from winnowing through a wealth of literature in their field each year; (3) to direct the reader to…

Organizations which provide information on library automation are listed with a brief annotation of the type of information or service available from each organization. This is followed by a short bibliography of selected publications on library automation. (NH)

To test several hypotheses related to source credibility, comprehension, and homophily of the source, a study was designed. The 124 college students from a basic communication course who served as subjects were presented a message on the effects of slavery in America by either a homophilous source, who wore his hair standing out from his head or…

Persons seriously planning to implement community education, or even those who are exploring the concept, will find this article useful. The author outlines several sources of information that will help answer their many questions. (Editor)

Reports that Connecticut's daily newspapers demonstrated a significantly higher utilization of local and regional wire services in 1967 than in 1976, and that there was a significantly higher utilization of wire service than of staff originated copy regardless of year. (GW)

This article describes the way the public uses health information sources. (MM)

Three librarians give their impressions of sales representatives who work at library conventions. Henry Stewart discusses how they can be knowledgeable information sources about current products and services; Susan Martin describes how library automation vendors can help librarians learn about new technology; and Peggy Sullivan discusses the…

Historical researchers quickly learn that the evidence they seek is often scarce, partial, misleading; and that it is always inconclusive. Investigates how to mute personal reactions to historical evidence in order to let the evidence speak for itself. Attempts to research the life of Betsey Stockton, a black woman born into slavery who rose to…

Forty-eight high and forty-eight low dogmatic subjects received neutral information about fictitious countries from sources who were positive, unbiased (neutral) or negative toward the country. It was concluded that closed-minded people react to surface indicators of validity whereas open-minded people use the characteristics of a description to…

Supports the hypothesis that exposure to nonmediated information that conflicts with information gained from a media source would cause an increase in media skepticism. Suggests that media skepticism may be a useful construct for future research in communication processes and effects. (NKA)