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Rapid changes in technology make it increasingly important to understand the impact of modes of presentation and the use of computers to obtain data. In order to begin to explore the effects of new technologies in the domain of anti-drug public service announcements (PSAs), 154 adolescents from the Boys and Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Philadelphia were randomly assigned to one of three series of six anti-drug PSAs or a series of six political PSAs (control). Half the subjects viewed and evaluated the PSAs on a laptop computer, while the other half viewed the PSAs on a TV monitor and evaluated them using a paper and pencil self-completion questionnaire. As expected, sets of anti-drug PSAs were judged to be more effective in helping people avoid drugs than the set of political PSAs. There were, however, important differences in effectiveness as a function of gender and ethnicity. In addition, in contrast to previous research, there were only minimal differences between the use of computer methodology and the more traditional TV and paper and pencil methodology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focuses on the development of a local check-in system for serials management at the Nesbitt Library in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Application of Microsoft Access and basic Kardex check-in principles; Common problems in automating check-in and claiming; Presentation of several possible check-in process based on predicted enumeration.

The article presents information about the Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP), which has, in the past two years, significantly added to already existing archival collections with the addition of several important groups of labor-related materials. In 1986 due to the expansion of its present office structure and the creation of an in-house computer center, the Rochester and Pittsburgh (R&P) Coal Co. donated many of its corporate archives to IUP. This collection, consisting of 420 linear feet, constitutes one of the most complete groups of coal company records in the East. Probably the most significant group of papers consists of the presidential files of R&P and of its several predecessor companies. Lucius Waterman Robinson left papers rich in labor history and the industrial heritage of Western Pennsylvania. B.M. Clark and his son, Heath S. Clark, both served as president during periods of industrial expansion and labor-management strife, and these are reflected in their surviving correspondence. The R&P collection also contains a unique group of early financial ledgers which document the founding of the company's 17 mining towns, beginning with the parent company's incorporation in 1881.

The issue of format duplication in academic library collections is increasingly complicated and perplexing in an environment of static or dwindling resources, soaring user expectations, dynamic access models, and inconsistent and changing publisher and vendor pricing structures. The problem is further complicated for libraries serving a university with multiple campus locations. This paper surveys recent investigative projects and highlights the work of a Duplicate Formats Task Force at Pennsylvania State University charged with determining the extent and nature of format duplication at that institution. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

This paper presents the results from a comprehensive study of aging attitudes among 97 social work students and 80 non-social work students at a mid-sized university in south central Pennsylvania. Overall, students had moderately negative views of aging and expressed little desire to work with older adults. Non-social work students possessed significantly higher knowledge about aging; no other group differences were found. Demographic, individual, mental health, and professional characteristics were significantly related to attitudes about aging and de- sire to work with older adults. Implications for curricular changes and out-of-class volunteer experiences to improve students' perceptions of aging and older adults are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the impact of the frame in which people interpret global warming. In 1999, 637 respondents completed a mail survey in five counties in central Pennsylvania. Half of the sample received questionnaires that framed global warming in terms of the local impacts of mitigation policies, whereas the other half received questionnaires that framed global warming in terms of the national impacts of mitigation policies. The results show a statistically significant but small difference between the local and national frames in the respondents' willingness to support government policies, as well as to take voluntary actions to mitigate climate change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper compares and contrasts school counsellor training programmes in two institutions from different cultures: The University of Ilorin, Nigeria and The Pennsylvania State University. While the USA is an industrialised Western nation, Nigeria is a developing African nation. A comparative inquiry of this nature is likely to provide a comprehensive and contemporary view of the national conditions from which guidance and counselling concerns emerge in the two countries. The areas covered include course content, method of training, programme emphasis, and accreditation. The implication of these issues for the development and improvement of counsellor education programmes are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Many models of supervision have been presented in the marriage and family therapy literature. Although the benefits of an integrative approach have been reported, few of these existing models are truly integrative in nature, and even fewer have been designed specifically for supervision of couple therapy. This paper offers an integrative model of supervision based primarily on the Intersystem Model of couple therapy of the Marriage Council of Philadelphia.* This model incorporates individual, interactional, and intergenerational therapies into one unit, providing a base from which the supervisor of couple therapy can be most effective. A detailed case of supervision is utilized to demonstrate the model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Changes in politics, the economy, demographics, and local leadership all led to the establishment of the Potter Thomas Bilingual School in Philadelphia in 1969. This paper examines the school's history and how it has created, implemented, and sustained various language policies that have constituted its bilingual program over the last 30 years. Using Kaplan and Baldauf's (1997) model, I will identify how Potter Thomas reconfigured its language-in-education policies to challenge "deficit" discourse and promote "resource" discourse (Ruiz, 1984) toward language diversity and speakers of languages other than English. I conclude with present and future challenges to Potter Thomas' bilingual education program, including a critique of the role Title VII funding has played in the program's development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Detailed information on coal transportation is a necessary and important element of energy policy formulation. At the intrastate scale comprehensive information is often difficult to collect because of industrial confidentiality. In order to test the accuracy of publically available data, origin-destination movements of utility coal are estimated for Pennsylvania, using a maximum-entropy model of spatial interaction. A series of models is evaluated incorporating assumptions on transportation cost and mode, connectivity of origins and destinations, and coal properties. The inclusion of contract arrangements through restricted connectivity produces the greatest improvement in estimated flows. Attempts to specify a general cost function by the addition of coal properties (Btu. sulfur, ash l produces no significant improvements in the goodness-of-fit. The paper concludes that the identification of unobserved transport cost data by the method of residuals meets with mixed success. The results indicate that separate calibration of large-volume flows is a useful direction for further study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Urban Archives Center at Temple University was established in 1967 by a member of the History Department to document the lives of common urban dwellers in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Instead of collecting the papers of well-known figures, these new social history archives acquired manuscript collections that represented services provided to working-class people. Typical collections include the records of housing, minority, educational reform, social welfare; and labor organizations. Currently, the Urban Archives Center serves as the research base of the newly established Center for Public History which is jointly administered by the library system of the and the History Department of the Temple University. The Archives is one component of the Center for Public History, which also offers courses in applied history through the History Department, programs with the Philadelphia Board of Education, and conferences on various aspects of public history. One of the Center's most important acquisitions of the last few years is the records of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. Acquired through the Center's participation in the Penn Central Railroad Appraisal Project, the collection now comprises one of the largest collections of organizational records housed at the Temple University.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has had a long and varied industrial history out of which rose, among other things, the first labor party, U.S. President Zachary Taylor's scientific management, and labor activist William H. Sylvis' brand of modern trade unionism. Indeed, at least one labor historian has suggested that Philadelphia was the headquarters of the trade union movement in the 19th century. During the past year, the Urban Archives of Temple University at Pennsylvania, has been involved in a project to survey and acquire business and labor records relating to the city. As a result, the Archives have added several significant collections to its previous holdings. Perhaps the largest labor collection in the Urban Archives is that of the Upholsterers' International Union (UIU), covering the period from 1937 to 1976. The papers comprise approximately 175 linear feet and, while unprocessed, some sections are available for easy access. In particular, the extensive minutes of the Executive Board are a valuable source, containing the actions and correspondence of the board on every UIU resolution, dating from Sal Hoffman's election as president in 1937.

The Fred Lewis Pattee Library of the Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania, is a major resource for the study of labor history, the world of work, and industrial relations. In addition to the excellent general library collection of monographs, serials, and Pennsylvania and federal documents, primary sources are concentrated in two special collections: (1) the Pennsylvania Historical Collections and Labor Archives, which also houses the labor oral history collection, and (2) the University Library's Microforms Division. The major record group in the Historical Collections and Labor Archives relates to unionization in the steel industry. Records of the United Steelworkers of America contain a vast array of documents from the union's international headquarters. A large labor oral history collection complements the union records and personal papers in the archives. Not surprisingly, the majority of the interviews are with individuals who have been associated with the history and development of trade unionism in the steel and metals industries.

The subject of this paper is popular scientific culture and its significance in the city of Philadelphia during the 1820s. The impact of the public lecturer Robert Goodacre was at least some function of the difference between the demand for popular science and the provision of associational science in a city on the brink of fundamental social change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents information about the UE/Labor Archives (UELA), a division of the Archives of Industrial Society at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The UE/Labor Archives was established in 1975. It is the official repository for the records of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) and its geographic districts in the U.S. It is also the home for dozens of other collections about labor in Western Pennsylvania, including labor union records, corporate employment and personnel files, the records of labor attorneys, labor activists and organizations associated with the labor movement. The UE collection is also the repository for the records of all cur- rent UE districts in the U.S. The records of Districts 2, 6, 7, and 11 are open, and those of District 1 are partially opened. Two closely related collections in the UELA are the papers of Thomas Quinn, a former UE activist and current director of the Pennsylvania Bureau of Mediation and Conciliation, and Margaret Darin Stasik, a former UE activist and staff member.

Original peer-reviewed articles related to the non-pulmonary effects of inhaled particulate matter are presented in the June, 2004 issue of "Inhalation Toxicology." These articles are a reminder that the respiratory tract is an important portal of entry of air contaminants that may have effects throughout the body. The articles published here were originally presented as papers in the first International Specialty Conference of the American Association for Aerosol Research, which was held 31 March-April 4, 2003 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.