Vocational exploration can be facilitated through reading and identifying with persons in novels and biographies. Faculty and librarians listed works for students seeking a fuller sense of how it feels to work in a particular vocation. Recommendations were collated into an annotated bibliography. Limitations and responses are discussed.…

Reports on a study that examined collections of biographies of women in four elementary school libraries. Data are presented on collection size, distribution of male and female biographies in proportion to the student population, representation of ethnic groups, literary quality, and currency. A list of 49 recommended women's biographies is…