Development of librarianship as a profession is impeded by the librarian who is intent on developing the means to fulfill user needs without regard to the client, as well as those people who believe there is nothing esoteric or complicated about librarianship. Comments from selected CLW readers are included. (Author/MBR)

Describes the National Teacher of the Year awards program and presents the 1988 winner, Terry Weeks. Weeks, a middle school teacher from Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and a member of the National Council for the Social Studies, explains his philosophy of teaching and describes some of his unique classroom strategies. (GEA)

Discusses some of the growing concerns regarding the professional development of teachers. (JY)

President of the National Art Education Association discusses reasons for and meaning of membership in the association. (CB)

A review of The Women Doctorate in America: Origins, Career, and Family (New York: Russell Sage, 1969) by Helen S. Astin. (DB)

The Professional Standards and Ethics Committee of the American Society for Training and Development has adopted the first code of ethics for the training and development profession. (EB)

Reanalyzes recent data on newspaper editors' attitudes and behavior toward journalism prizes. Reports that most newspapers have policies that encourage prize seeking. (MM)

This essay explores a view of professions, invisible colleges, disciplines, and the diffusion of ideas. This discussion leads to the author's opinion that art therapy is a discipline around ideas, while art therapists are professionals. (Author/MKA)

The scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), while differing from the scholarship of discovery in its focus on the classroom, calls for a systematic investigation of a research question, a survey of the best scholarship on the subject, going public with one's findings in the form of conference presentations and scholarly publication, a…

What creates the "one-and-done" scenario is the National Basketball Association (NBA) rule that prohibits a player from graduating from high school and going directly to the NBA. The league's obviously cynical and self-interested rule prohibits a prospect from signing to play before at least one year has elapsed. In contrast, Major League…

The purpose of this study was to examine and describe the environmental factors that influence an undergraduate music education major's investment in instrumental techniques courses taught by a graduate teaching assistant. Each participant (three undergraduate music education majors and three teaching assistants) submitted to being interviewed…