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Show Book on Alcohol Studies Being Sent to Libraries Utah libraries which participated partici-pated in the research into the literature of the field of alcohol education are now receiving copies cop-ies of the resultant bibliography, " "Alcohol Education for the Layman." Lay-man." The work, by Margaret E. Monroe and Jean Stewart, has just been published by the Rutgers Rut-gers University Press after studies stud-ies completed at the Graduate School of Library Services, Rutgers Rut-gers University, New Brunswick, N.J. Both research and publication publica-tion were underwritten by the United States Brewers Foundation. Founda-tion. The purpose of the bibliography is to provide a reliable guide to studies on the effects of beverage alcohol now required in the educational edu-cational systems of all the states. Nationally, 816 school, college and public libraries took part in the research. The criteria of the selection of materials books, pamphlets and films suitable for use at school, college or adult levels required according to the authors, "sound authority in the field of alcohol education, competent and honest communication of the information informa-tion in a form useful to the layman, lay-man, and an important contribution contribu-tion to an area of alcohol education. educa-tion. Equally careful evaluation was made of the materials rejected re-jected as of those seleoted. The United States Brewers . Foundation, recognizing the need of a valid objective bibliograph-( bibliograph-( ical source to aid teacher and seudent in the required studies, financed the research and publication publi-cation as a public sen-vice. The authors speak of the "complete freedom of inquiry and judgment permitted us by the Brewers Foundation" which helped to create cre-ate "the highly satisfactory climate cli-mate in which we conducted the appraisal." The materials for "Alcohol Education Ed-ucation for the Layman" are thoroughly examined and carefully care-fully annotated, providing an orientation or-ientation in the field which has been entirely lacking. Copies of the book may be 'procured directly direct-ly from the Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, N.J. |