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The publication includes papers from the opening session, eighteen working papers on library cataloging, eighteen papers presented at group meetings and plenary sessions, and papers from the concluding session. The inaugural address "Cataloging Enters the Spiral of Scientific Method" was presented by S.R. Ranganathan. The working paper topics covered terminology, authors, recall, names of governments, institutions, and conferences, titles, publisher series, periodical titles and multiworded names. A list of office holders, a time table and an index are appended. (AB)

These papers, produced for a graduate seminar at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, represent an attempt to devise a methodology for the comparative study of adult education. "Introduction," by G.S. Bains, provides a justification for the study of comparative adult education. "Comparative Philosophies of Adult Education," by Donald Verwayen, and "An Exploration of the 'Developmental/Rationalistic' Dichotomy for Comparative Adult Education Studies," by Michael J. Heus, examine basic philosophies. "The National Establishment of Adult Education," by Barbara D'Onofrio, concerns the status of adult education. "The Organization of Adult Education," by A. Brian Calhoun, "A Comparative Adult Education Inventory," by Marianne Maynard, and "The Arrangement of Study Activities," by Thomas C. Smrcka, present different forms of arrangement. "Cultural Differences and Evaluation," by D. Merrill Ewert, explores cultural influences creating differences between countries. (KM)

SINCE LINGUISTS HAVE ONLY RECENTLY TURNED FROM GRAMMATICAL ANALYSIS TO CONSIDER THE ROLE OF LANGUAGE IN SOCIETY, THE STUDY OF MODERNIZATION HAS BEEN LEFT LARGELY TO SOCIAL SCIENTISTS WHO CAN HARDLY BE EXPECTED TO DEAL WITH LINGUISTIC QUESTIONS. LANGUAGE PROBLEMS, HOWEVER, ARE KNOWN TO PLAGUE DEVELOPING SOCIETIES. IN POST-INDEPENDENCE INDIA, NATIONAL LANGUAGE, THE LINGUISTIC STATES ISSUE, PROBLEMS OF SCRIPT, AND MINORITY GROUP CLAIMS FOR LINGUISTIC AUTONOMY HAVE LONG PLAYED A DOMINANT PART IN PUBLIC LIFE. SO FAR SUCH PROBLEMS TEND TO BE TREATED PRIMARILY AS CULTURAL OR POLITICAL ISSUES. FEW ATTEMPTS HAVE BEEN MADE TO EXAMINE THEIR RELATION TO MASS COMMUNICATION, SOCIAL MOBILITY, SOCIAL CONTROL, AND OTHER ASPECTS OF SOCIOECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. THE PRESENT PAPER EXPLORES THIS PROBLEM BY EXAMINING THE LINGUISTIC POLICIES AND PRACTICES OF TWENTIETH CENTURY LANGUAGE SOCIETIES IN THE NORTH INDIAN STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH. THE AUTHORS ATTEMPT TO DEMONSTRATE THE CLOSE INTERDEPENDENCE BETWEEN COMMUNICATION AND POLITICAL PROCESSES BY SHOWING HOW THE POLICIES AND ACTIVITIES OF THESE INTEREST GROUPS BOTH AFFECT INTERNAL COMMUNICATION CHANNELS AND ARE IN TURN AFFECTED BY THEM. (AUTHOR/AMM)

Two possible approaches for teaching Asian studies at the elementary level are provided in this teaching guide. Focus is upon presenting selected, crucial aspects of Indian and Chinese culture to students who then compare cultural differences and likenesses. Cognitive and affective objectives are incorporated into the curriculum and, moreover, a paradigm for measuring cognitive and emphatic understanding of significant elements of Chinese and Indian cultures provides the teacher with an index of the degree of success or failure of this approach. The unit on China employs case studies of Chinese communities through which students study the physical setting, real life, and the ideal life of a Chinese community. Students are introduced to the rural and urban subcontinent in the unit on India by planning a vicarious trip to India in which each student begins to investigate what he takes along the trip as an insight into his own culture. Each unit suggests appropriate concepts to be developed, an outline of content, and a variety of instructional activities. A bibliography is included describing available, multi media materials on China, India, and Asia. (SJM)

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) entrusted to the International Film and Television Council (IFTC) the task of collecting documentation on world cinematographic organizations, in order to provide developing nations with information useful to the establishment of similar services adopted to their particular needs. The IFTC's study focuses upon institutions of a public nature whose objective is to promote the cinema and its applications to education, science and culture. The nature and function of the cinema are discussed, along with the kinds of audiences aimed at, the stages of operations involved in making films, and the types of institutions which carry on these operations. Information is provided on particular institutions which are responsible for specific categories of films--such as educational, scientific, and children's films--and for different stages of film production. The final major section explores examples--drawn from India, Canada, Sweden, Britain, France and Poland--of centralized national cinematographic institutions with inclusive functions. Seventeen appendixes provide additional details about aspects of cinema. (PB)

The four sections of the report cover the topics of cataloging, subject analysis, documentation systems for industry and the Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC) research report for 1970. The cataloging section covers the conflicts of cataloging, recall, corporate bodies, titles, publishers series and the entity name. The subject analysis section covers the formulation of basic subjects and isolates; compares "subject" with "system," compares natural and social sciences, and a case study. Management needs for information; management information systems; and information needs for design engineers; and food, glass, ceramics, and textiles industry needs are covered in the third section and several case studies are provided. The research report section includes classification, cataloging, and computer-aided document finding system research. (AB)

Faced with a multitude of internal problems caused by the large number of languages and language dialects in India, linguists discuss ways and means by which language instruction might be improved. An intensive language course given at Kerala is described in several addresses and in short articles on language theory. Commentary on all aspects of the course is included. (RL)

In an attempt to more closely relate the size of primary schools in Uttar Pradesh, India to the teaching activities, an experiment was conducted in some forty schools where classrooms were provided only for lessons for which covered space was essential. All other lessons were conducted in the open on the school site. An area utilization reduction of about 40% was achieved as well as a side effect of greater student interest due to increased individual activity. Climatic conditions in India were examined and it was concluded that outdoor teaching north of latitude 19 degrees North and below 2,000 feet above mean sea level is quite feasible. (NI)

TELECLUBS, BECAUSE OF THE NOVELTY OF TELEVISION, WERE SO POPULAR THAT OVERCROWDING, AS WELL AS UNEVEN ATTENDANCE BY CLUB MEMBERS, AFFECTED THE GOAL OF EVALUATING THE IMPACT OF TELECASTS ON CITIZENSHIP. GREATER SUCCESS WAS REALIZED IN BRINGING ABOUT SHIFTS IN INFORMATION THAN IN ATTITUDES, PERHAPS, BECAUSE THE EXPERIMENTAL GROUP STARTED AT A HIGHER LEVEL OF ATTITUDE THAN INFORMATION. THE MEMBERS WERE MOSTLY LOWER MIDDLE CLASS AND MALE, WITH A HIGH REPRESENTATION OF PROFESSIONALS. A BASELINE SURVEY AND A TERMINAL SURVEY OF 20 CLUBS AND THEIR 418 MEMBERS MEASURED THE IMPACT OF 20 SPECIAL TELECASTS. A SUPPLEMENTARY GROUP PARTICIPATION ASSESSMENT SCHEDULE WAS GIVEN TO DETERMINE THE EFFECT OF THE NUMBER OF FRIENDS THE MEMBERS HAD IN THE TELECLUBS ON THEIR ATTENDANCE, PARTICIPATION, AND RESPONSE. THIS DOCUMENT IS AVAILABLE AS B.1922 FROM NATIONAL DISTRIBUTORS OF UNESCO PUBLICATIONS OF FROM THE DIVISION OF FREE FLOW OF INFORMATION, UNESCO, PLACE DE FONTENOY, PARIS-7E, FRANCE, FOR $0.50. (MF)

A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK IS PRESENTED AND IS APPLIED TO NATIONAL REPORTS ON ADULT EDUCATION IN FIVE COUNTRIES. THE FIRST TWO CHAPTERS FEATURE COMPONENTS OF THE FRAMEWORK AND DETAILED DATA ON THE TOTAL EDUCATIONAL SCENE IN CANADA, HONG KONG, INDIA, ISRAEL, SUDAN, THE UNITED STATES, THE UNITED KINGDOM, PUERTO RICO, AND YUGOSLAVIA. CHAPTER 3 THROUGH 7 PRESENT NATIONAL REPORTS FROM HONG KONG, INDIA, ISRAEL, UNITED KINGDOM, AND YUGOSLAVIA. CHAPTER 8 REPORTS BRIEFLY ON IMPORTANT THEMES AND APPARENT AREAS OF AGREEMENT, INCLUDING PROBLEMS OF PROGRAM STATUS, PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT, INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION, FINANCING, AND THE PLANNING OF CROSS CULTURAL AND COMPARATIVE RESEARCH. AMONG THE AREAS PROPOSED IN THE LAST CHAPTER FOR FURTHER INVESTIGATION ARE TRAINING AND RESEARCH, TAXONOMY AND TERMINOLOGY, CULTURALLY RELATED EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS, AND THE IMPACT OF POLITICAL AND SOCIOECONOMIC PATTERNS ON THE NATURE AND ORGANIZATION OF SYSTEMS OF ADULT EDUCATION. THE DOCUMENT INCLUDES 29 TABLES AND CHARTS AND 84 REFERENCES. (LY)

Part I contains 22 papers covering all aspects of the library reference services including sources of reference materials, an evaluation of reference sources, building a reference collection, training a reference librarian, and the needs of the industrial and medical communities for reference services. All the papers are slanted toward the special needs in India. The 20 papers in Part II contain information about the processing of special library materials such as theses and dissertations, research reports, patents, off-prints, audiovisual materials, trade literature and periodicals. (NH)

Attempts to clarify the position concerning the giving of options in choosing questions on examination papers, and provokes thinking on the curricular and measurement problems associated with it. (Author/PG)