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A concerted campaign afoot came at the Socialist Scholars Conference a year ago, where the author appeared on a panel with Murray Bookchin, the author and co-founder of the Institute for Social Ecology, to discuss "The Politics of Ecology." Bookchin gave one of his elegant, impassioned, learned presentations, but it had a harsh edge to it of sourness and rancors directed against those who might hold to any of the tenets of deep ecology, particularly the ideas embraced in the term "biocentrism." Deep ecology, it seemed, was a part of the broad ecological movement in the U.S. that was wrongheaded and dangerous, diverting attention from the serious tasks of eliminating capitalism and restructuring class society, and was in some way a threat to the reasonable, right-minded form of social ecology. Next came a broadside presented by Bookchin to the national Green gathering in Amherst, Massachusetts, last July, a paper starkly and forthrightly called "Social Ecology Versus Deep Ecology."

Presents skill-building activities for elementary school children in the U.S. Role of paper wings in social studies; Instruction in making pinecone trees for art classes; Information on the use of candles in math.

Presents letters to the editors concerning politics and socioeconomics in the U.S. Support for replacing the paper dollar with a coin for silver mining interests; Failure of the Susan B. Anthony dollar; Need for national referendum on the dollar coin; Need for appropriate laws to prevent child abuse; Similarities and differences between post-modernism and pragmatism; Texas Governor Ann Richards comments on President George Bush; Emphasis of the American culture on youth.

Comments on several issues relevant to American politics and society in 1990. Act of moral cowardice and vicious hatred charged against the Dartmouth Review; Clarification that Newt Gingrich's critical remarks in a memorandum quoted in "The Washington Times," in October 1990 issue were not aimed at Democrats participating in the budget talks in the country; Evidence that the editors of the paper included the Hitler quotation intentionally.

The article presents an update of issues related to the social sciences and humanities online information services in the U.S. as of May 2004. The American Psychological Association will license from EBSCO the content contained in the former e-psyche database. Approximately 15,000 records from newsletters and other similar materials will enter PsycEXTRA, the association's new gray literature database. Other PsycEXTRA documents include research reports not submitted to scholarly journals, convention papers and abstracts, policy papers, newsletters, magazines, popular books, consumer brochures, curricula, and fact sheets. ProQuest Information and Learning announced the third release of the online collection American Drama, covering more than 1,100 dramatic works from the Colonial period to the beginning of the 20th century. David Belasco, Joaquin Miller, Clyde Fitch, and James Herne are among the leading post-Civil War playwrights added to American Drama 1714-1915. ProQuest also announced the first release of Twentieth Century Drama. When complete, the new database will contain 2,500 plays in English, the history of modern drama from the 1890s to the present day, all in searchable full text. H.W. Wilson released its updated Humanities& Social Sciences Index Retrospective 1907-1984, which features cover to cover indexing of some 1,200 scholarly journals with 1,300,000 articles.

The article reports that in 2013 Kalpana Shankar and Kristin Eschenfelder were winners of the Association for Information Science & Technology History Fund's Research Award and that Xiaohu Zhu was the winner of the fund's Best Paper Award.