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In their books The Assessment of Social Research and Exemplars of Social Research, Fellin, Tripodi and Meyer develop, describe and discuss a method for classifying and assessing social research. They state that “this classification system is intended for use with empirical research reports, and is not applicable for categorising non-empirical studies such as historical and bibliographical research. Furthermore, only reports of single research investigations can be usefully classified in this scheme.” [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Focuses on the use of the bibliographical research data taken by the National Association for Nursery Education in determining the development of nursery school education in the U.S. List of books published in 1928; Total number of publications dealing with nursery education; Identification of the magazines containing articles about nursery education.

Describes the use of computers in developing a comprehensive social science bibliography on Korea. Problems of bibliographical research faced by social scientists when utilizing previously recorded data; Details of a project which developed a social science bibliography on Korea; Factors affecting the degree of usefulness of a bibliographic system.

The article presents information on books and other literary work related to information science. The book "Guide to Unpublished Polish Bibliographies," by B. Eychler Polish, makes available to all libraries, institutions, and individuals the results of the central registration of all bibliographical research that is being planned, worked on or finished. The article "Soviet Libraries and Their Information Services," by G. Pomassl is a report of a tour of Soviet libraries. The purpose of the study was to obtain helpful data for establishing an effective information and documentation system in East Germany.

The article reports that New York Public Library has named staff members Richard J. Wolfe and C.E. Dornbusch to receive the first grants-in-aid from its Emily Ellsworth Ford Skeel Fund for bibliographical research. Dornbusch, Assistant for Exchanges in the Acquisition Branch of the Reference Library's Preparation Division, will be undertaking a revision and extension of the Bibliography of State Participation in the Civil War, 1861-1866, last published by the War Department Library in a third edition in 1913.

The discovery and the introduction of the works of Aristotle into Europe had a very deep effect in the scholarly life of the Middle Ages. As it is well known, there existed already an Aristotelian tradition based on the translations of the Roman Boethius (480–525), the logica vetus (old logic). However, the rediscovery of the late works of Aristotle in the XII century, the logica nova, was going to mark the beginning of very important achievements in all branches of philosophy in the wide sense of the word.1 [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The subject of immediate post-prophetic disconfirmazion behavior on the part of the primitive cult believer has been relatively ignored. Leon Festinger et al. in When Prophecy Fails explore to some extent the occurrences of rationalism and increased proselytizing in response to cognitive dissonance, itself brought about by the prophetic failure. Yet they do so only with regard to a recent American doomsday cult, the Lake City group. Others have often elaborated on the ultimate effects of prophetic disconfirmation in both primitive and non primitive groups, although failing to recognize those more immediate. Festinger's application of cognitive dissonance cannot only be extensively used to explain the immediate behavior of the modern believer subsequent to the prophetic failure but that of the primitive one as well. Such immediate behavior can then be shown to lead to those more ultimate effects of prophetic disconfirmation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents information on some research projects and methods in educational sociology in the United States. A committee of political scientists and psychologists at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts are to conduct a study of propaganda in the newsreels under a grant from the Committee on Research in the Social Sciences. Professor Carl J. Freidrich of the political-science department is to be assisted by Richard L. Schanck and Douglass MacGregor of the department of psychology and K.P. Herring of the department of government. The joint program hopes to cover several different phases of the problem from special angles of social psychology, public opinion, and public administration. The Works Progress Administration as one of the Federal Writers' Projects has authorized an important bibliographical research project. A complete bibliographical catalogue of all historical and current materials on the motion picture is being prepared and the most important articles and books are being abstracted for the use of students in this field.

A brief survey is made of the move to establish university institutions in the former British Central African Territories after the Asquith recommendations in 1945. The three university establishments in English-speaking Central Africa are recently founded and small. The pattern of university library development is influenced by immediate, cultural and social needs and conditions peculiar to Tropical Africa—lack of other types of libraries and lack of adequate book supplies. The libraries resemble those of small UK universities. Some com parative evaluation follows, of the administrative organization, acquisitions policy, readers' services and staff composition. Bibliographic and reference services, though well provided, should extend to training the student reader in an independent approach. The universities are providing national reference and information services. They should encourage greater co-ordination of library resources through co-operative activities. Training of indigenous librarians for national needs at all levels is an activity already being tackled and more help should begiven. Bibliographical projects and library research should be the main preoccupation for national benefit. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article presents a list of books on various topics related to economics. Some of the books included are, "Introduction to Social Science, a Survey of Social Problems," vol. 2, by G.C. Atteberry, J.L. Auble and E.F. Hunt; "Our Economic Problems," by M.E. Bohlman and H.W. Bohlman; "Basic Principles of Economics and Their Significance for Public Policy," by H.G. Brown; "The Politics of Mercantilism," by P.W. Buck; "Engineering Economic Analysis," by C.E. Bullinger; "Questions and Exercises on the Principles of Economics," by R.T. Bye; "Economic Principles in Practice," by B.W. Knight; "American Society and the Changing World," by C.H. Pegg; "Democratic-Republican Societies, 1790-1800," E.P. Link; "The Economic Development of the American Nation," by R.C. McGrane; "Some Historians of Modern Europe," edited by B.E. Schmitt.

The article offers information on the Jewish bibliography in the U.S. Topics discussed include the importance of communications and of information retrieval for the advancement of knowledge and freedom; the recent growth of Jewish collections in the U.S. and abroad; and also mentions that the work of the first modern Jewish bibliographers, was based on the collections of manuscripts and books to be found in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, in the British Museum in London, England.

This article focuses on a directive regarding the establishment of the Armed Forces Medical Library, issued by the U.S. Secretary of Defense on March 4, 1952. Implementation of this directive now awaits action by the Secretary of the Army and the Surgeon General. The Library shall be a joint agency of the three military departments, subject to the authority, direction and control of the Secretary of Defense, and under the management control of the Secretary of the Army.

Presents abstracts of theses in the field of speech published in the August 1955 issue of the journal 'Speech Monographs.' Rhetorical analysis of the public speaking of public speaker Richard F. Pettigrew; Pulpit speaking of orator Dwight L. Moody; Oratory of the U.S. senator Daniel W. Voorhees.

Presents news briefs concerning speech education in the U.S. as of September 1964. Schedules of the Speech Association of America National Conventions; Renovation of the Grady Gammage Memorial Auditorium at the Arizona State University at Tempe; Appointment of Don Garnett as instructor of public speaking and director of forensics at Arkansas State Teachers College at Conway.

Interest in the community is diverse. For some it is primarily theoretical, being directed, for example, toward the analysis of the structured relationships of individuals within the community, as into social classes or castes, or into institutions like those of the church, the school, cooperatives, or municipal government. For others the interest takes a practical form. The community is the recognized locus for the implementation of programs of education, public health, nutrition, social work, relief and rehabilitation, agricultural extension work, and the like. Some few may even be responsible for planning the establishment of new communities, as in reclamation and resettlement projects. Whatever these varied interests, however, they all come to a common focus in the structure and functioning of the community. The broader and deeper the scientific knowledge of the community, the better equipped each specialist will be to carry out his own specific task. In this article, consequently the problem of the community will be approached from the broadest possible comparative or cross-cultural point of view.

The article presents information on literary work related to information science. The article "Aid-to-Indexing Forms: Progress Report No. 2.," is a report of the experience gained in using aid-to-indexing forms received from authors of over 2,000 papers which appeared in six physics research journals. Another article "Citations of Physics Literature," by Ben-Ami Lipetz and Charlotte F. Dziurkiewicz, was prepared as part of a program to evaluate the potential usefulness of the citation index as a reference aid for physicists. It is hoped that it will prove useful in helping American physicists to find relevant Russian work.