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Ever noticed the morning‐after‐the‐night‐before effect of a good television documentary? It's a remarkable hangover. On trains, tubes, and buses; in pubs, offices, and homes; people are talking about it — analyzing, arguing, questioning, wondering. Although stimulating, it is more often than not a frustrating experience because there is no one to turn to for answers to the questions which have been raised, no one with the authority to settle the arguments and carry further the exploration begun by the programme. A wonderful teaching opportunity has been created and lost.

[1981 was proclaimed by the United Nations as the International Year of Disabled Persons. With the theme “Full Participation and Equality,” the IYDP sought both to promote total participation of disabled persons in all aspects of life and to encourage society to help them function as integrated members of their communities. One purpose of proclaiming such a year, and one means of achieving its goals, is to inform and sensitize the public. The following bibliographies are presented with those purposes in mind.

The University of Kansas (KU) libraries has faced increased requests for streaming video in the past five years. While we have provided access to many databases of films, feature films remained a problem. To write a collection development policy, the library undertook three investigations to ensure the outcome reflected the needs of the university.

Film titles included in Swank 300 and Criterion-on-Demand were checked against the CanIStream. it? website to check for availability through streaming, rental or purchase services. Student library users were surveyed to determine if they had streaming subscriptions and, if so, which ones. KU librarians also examined academic library collection development polices to understand how others have addressed this issue.

More than half of the feature films provided by the two vendors are available through subscriptions, renting or purchasing methods. A majority of students subscribe to one or more of these services. Many academic libraries are deciding not to provide streaming feature films.

There are no previous studies on students’ subscriptions to streaming services linked to availability of feature films offered from commercial vendors to libraries.

-- The purpose of this paper is to provide a selected list of free and subscription web resources for film and television (screen) studies.

-- Reference sources on film and other media studies were located, evaluated, and selected. The list is divided into four broad research categories; research databases and film catalogs (subscription products); film and television catalogs/databases (gratis); historical film streaming sites; and film studies portal sites.

-- There are a wide variety of resources available online that users can freely access as well as robust subscription products currently available to libraries to support research in film and television studies. Students and scholars can use both free and fee-based sites for film catalogs, film studies journal indexes, streaming video content, and other information and analysis on visual media.

-- There has not been a bibliographic list of online film studies resources undertaken since 2005, and many new web resources as well as databases have emerged in the field. The annotated list of resources in this study seeks to supplement and update what has been previously discussed in the LIS literature on web-based reference sources available for libraries supporting film and television studies.

Since the passage of P.L. 94–142, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975, on November 29, 1975, mandating that handicapped students be educated in the least restrictive environments possible, there has been an increasing demand for information related to the education of the handicapped. A common observation of teachers and administrators is that tedious hours of paperwork and conferences are required to plan individualized programs and meet governmental mandates.

A regular feature giving news and comments on events and productions in the field of visual aids for technical and scientific teaching and training

Stephen Hall asks why so few colleges of education are running film and television courses

Wide Range Cutting Oils. (col, 26 min) was originally made in France by Je Vois Tout for Mobil Oil Francaise, and a dubbed English version has now been made by Technical and Scientific Films Ltd.

Fresh support comes to that best economiser of road space, the bus, in a highly topical colour film Omnibus — For All. The battle of private car v public transport in town and city centres is clearly illustrated — the problems are presented and possible solutions shown. Starting with minor parking restrictions and one‐way systems, the film passes on to the possibilities of major replanning and rebuilding of town centres. Pre‐dating the Buchanan Report, the film anticipates it in some ways, and the importance of the bus in any scheme is clearly brought out.