The use of any type of volunteer for essential (professional patron-oriented long term) services limits cumulative staff knowledge and undermines the case for full public support. However, the unemployed librarian can gain invaluable experience in special projects (unessential non-patron oriented in-house short term services) and should be…

Recounts current efforts to bring religious education to retarded children and the place of the library in those efforts. (Author)

This article deals with white minority groups, the nature and structure of these communities, their publications and endeavors to identify existing needs, and future development of necessary programs and relevant library services to the white ethnic community. (Author/AP)

The problems and challenges which confront parish librarians are the same whether the church library is part of the Protestant, Jewish or Catholic structure. This article is concerned with parish librarians and public libraries. (Author/NH)

A description of the oral history movement and discussion of oral history's relationship with libraries and librarians. (Author/LS)

Reviewed are library problems associated with book acquisition related partly to the situation found in publishing and partly to the need for improved communications between librarians and wholesalers. (Author)

Survey of 56 public reference librarians from New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania reveals that they perceive reference service as comprising question answering (34 percent); locating information (30 percent); service (17 percent); providing materials (7 percent); aiding readers in library use (4 percent); telephone referral (2 percent); 100 percent…

A brief review of the increasing need for library services to Hispanics includes reviews of two useful references. It is pointed out that library schools and the American Library Association can play a crucial role in providing quality library services for the Spanish-speaking, and programs at several library schools are mentioned. (LLS)

Discussion of librarianship as practiced in rural areas of United States highlights advantages of rural environment which affect role of the library, i.e., interpersonal relationships, need for creative modes of information service, potential to provide insulation against personal anonymity, potential for impacting community, opportunity to…

Identifies the advantages and limitations of online search services offered by libraries, cautioning the searcher and user to consider and evaluate all options before performing online search. The librarian's responsibility to solve the user's information problem in a desirable way is discussed. Five references are listed. (EJS)

Discusses the similarities between what librarians call activity bibliotherapy and psychotherapists call poetry therapy, and the need for cooperation between these professions. The interactive aspects of bibliotherapy and the need for professional training in this process are emphasized. (CLB)

Ways of maintaining good relations between a college library and the faculty, students, and other users are suggested. (PF)

Describes the services of the General Theological Library in Boston, Massachusetts, a nondenominational, ecumenical institution which provides mail order circulation of religious books for clients throughout the United States. (Author/JL)

Over the four years the student is in high school the most logical person to impart to hime a love of reading, as a lifelong, never failing source of ideas and inspiration, is the school librarian. This is his ladder to the sky. (NH)

Based on an acceptance speech given by the author upon receiving the Catholic Library Association's 1995 Certificate of Merit Award, this article discusses surveying teenagers, reviews what teenagers want from school librarians, and offers ways to serve teenagers better. (JMV)