First-year students have long been a primary focus of academic librarians’ research and assessment efforts. From these studies, and even more particularly from the unempirically based library literature, there emerges a picture of first-year students. These first-year students are extreme examples of their collegiate peers: “lazy, procrastinating, plagiarizing patrons of the glut of information...

? must we shut them away? Dr. Norman Capstick outlines a scheme which would save many old people from the isolation of an institution, but still enable them to receive the care and treatment that they need The aim of keeping old people in the community is partly to avoid resignation to an institutional life, with its loss of independence, and also because a hospital is essentially a therapeutic...