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A self-instructional module consisting of two 30-minute videotapes and a workbook, designed by an instruction planning committee in a college library, provides students with information on the organization and structure of the library service system, as well as basic library skills and term paper search strategies. The program is part of two required courses (COM 111 and COM 112) and runs one week each semester. Use of encyclopedias, almanacs, and the card catalog are described in Videotape I, and Videotape II covers periodicals and periodical indexes; exercises are given for both units in the workbook. Only the workbook is used to cover search strategy for COM 112. Responses to the questionnaires used to evaluate the program for COM 111 indicate that the great majority of students and faculty responded favorably to the program and 65 percent of the students rated videotapes favorably. Overall, the program was effective in meeting established goals, although less than half (38 percent) of the students in COM 112 rated the workbook as being helpful to them in researching a term paper. Copies of the workbook, teacher's manual, and questionnaires are appended. (RBF)

1Boy Crusoe

By Allan Eric

Also published as" A Yankee Crusoe" . A 15 year old hard working and studious farm boy finds the lure of adventure on the seas as a merchant seaman more than he can resist. This is his story. " I was born in a little town in the State of Maine, near the close of the Civil War. My boyhood life did not differ materially from that of the average farmer's son in the remote country districts of New England--except, perhaps, that I read more and thought more. Hard work on the rugged soil, two terms each year in the little yellow country schoolhouse, a day's fishing now and then filled the early years of my life full to over-flowing. " What he gets is enough excitement and adventure to overflow his wildest dreams. How he experiences disaster and uses his wits and knowledge to overcome every problem makes for a great read. - Summary by Phil Chenevert