The Systems and Procedures Exchange Center's (SPEC) Kits contain up-to-date information on the latest issues of concern to college and academic libraries and librarians today. This subject index to SPEC Kits covers all kits currently available from the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Office of Management Services. Under each subject…

Environmental attitudes and behaviors established during the preschool years provide the basis for a lifetime of responsible actions. Each activity in this guide is designed to stand alone and have been arranged by key experiences (classification, number concepts, representation, seriation, spatial relations, and time) and by environmental topics…

This guide lists published materials on many aspects of bioethics, the literature of which is varied and scattered. Related guides in the LC Science Tracer Bullet series are TB 80-9, Terminal Care, TB 80-11, Drug Research on Human Subjects, TB 83-4, Science Policy, and TB 84-7, Biotechnology. Not intended to be a comprehensive bibliography, this…

The Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science Education (ENC) helps teachers by offering a broad assortment of services to enable them to quickly locate educational resources. This document is one in a series of print catalogs designed to give educators information about curriculum resources available for teaching math and…

This book characterizes and organizes the extensive art information in cyberspace on the Internet. The book shows how to locate visual and text data on the Internet and how to evaluate and supplement that data with material from other information formats to produce quality research results. The book is divided into three parts, each with a…

This guide is aimed at educators, students, and other information users and lists free or low cost energy education materials. Each entry includes the address, telephone number, internet address, e-mail address, description of the providing organization, and a synopsis of the item available. The organizations represented take policy positions on…

This resource list on preventing alcohol and other drug use among secondary school students was compiled by the Office for Substance Abuse Prevention (OSAP). All resources have been reviewed to ensure that they reflect the latest scientific facts and convey a clear no-use message. The list is divided into three major sections: (1) resources for…

This resource list on preventing alcohol and other drug problems among elementary school children was compiled by the Office for Substance Abuse Prevention (OSAP). The main emphasis is helping educators and parents of children between the ages of 4 and 12 teach the no-use message. Using these resources, teachers, health educators, and community…

This bibliography contains a selection of federal government materials distributed by various government agencies from 1985 to 1990. These materials are aimed primarily at elementary and secondary school teachers for classroom use or as resources for student activities on a broad range of environmental issues. An introduction contains information…

This publication was assembled with the idea of assisting religious leaders in all denominations to conduct services which would relate to the healing of Planet Earth in conjunction with the first United Nations Environmental Sabbath during June, 1990. Part I is introductory, in nature, and contains factual data concerning the following…

Published to commemorate the Constitution's bicentennial year and remind Americans that books and the life of the mind are vital national traditions, this volume contains both an essay, "Well Acquainted with Books: The Founding Framers of 1787," by Robert A. Rutland, and James Madison's List of Books for Congress, 1783. The essay…

This book was written to help parents build on their already existing skills and knowledge in the area of child rearing, become more competent parents, and mobilize their resources to strengthen family functioning. It consists of a series of questions posed by readers of the "Parent Talk Page" of the "Detroit Free Press" newspaper and answers to…

This essay presents English-language sources which deal with the nineteenth-century Russian novel. It discusses bibliographies; bibliographic indexes and other indexes; dissertations; histories; handbooks, dictionaries, and encyclopedias; and special studies. Twelve notes are included; a 32-item selected bibliography is attached. (SR)

Twenty-two books related to the teaching of elementary-level mathematics are listed alphabetically by author in this annotated bibliography. With few exceptions, the books were published between 1976 and 1980. For each citation, information on author, publisher, and availability as well as a brief abstract is provided. A subject index is also…

A resource list of books and articles on educating young adolescents is provided for professionals who work with 10- to 15-year-olds and their families. Listed are 21 references on schooling, 8 references regarding effective schools studies, 9 resources for curriculum and instruction, 4 references for design and use of physical space, and 3…