Reading--Update: Ideals to Reality; Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Western College Reading Association (7th, Oakland, April 4-6, 1974).

The thirty-five papers in this volume were presented on the theme "Reading--Update: Ideals to Reality." The keynote address, delivered by Leland L. Medsker, was entitled "Postsecondary Education in the Decade Ahead." Titles of other papers include "Characteristics of Community College Students,""A Key to Unlock Aphasia,""The Realities of a Learning Skills Center In a College Without a Campus,""The Microcounseling Training Model: Interviewing Skills For the Reading Instructor,""Through Federal Funding land With Gun and Camera,""Active Listening,""Survey of Functions of Learning Programs in California's Two- and Four-Year Public Colleges and Universities,""The Minority Student in Teaching Communication Skills,""Using Experiences for Language Learning at the College Level,""Reading and Study Skills at the University of Kentucky Medical Center,""Getting Your Ideas into Print,""Dynamics of TNT (Teaching Notetaking Techniques),""A Learning Center at Stanford?,""Screening for Vision and Perception Disabilities,""Personalizing Reading Instruction in the Conventional Classroom,""Freshman Orientation: A Study Skills Approach," and "Implementing the Learning Resources Center: Who, Where, How, and With What?." (MKM)