We must give new attention to what our picture books are saying, to whom they are saying it, and how well they are saying it. (Author)

The Technical Report Service of Bell Laboratories specializes in procuring and distributing report literature. (PF)

Presents guidelines to assist librarians in evaluating and selecting books with gay themes for children and young adults. (Author/PF)

Lists reference books that give premium rates and other information about insurance companies. (PF)

An examination of historiography in the context of library collections suggests that there exists between the library and the disciplines it houses a relationship in which the collection structures itself to meet the demands made upon materials of individual disciplines and determines the demands which can be made upon those materials. (Author/PF)

A workable system for collection development in this library is a weekly review of standard selection tools, catalogs, and publishers' notices by the book selection committee (library director and the department heads of adult, children's, bookmobile, and technical services). (JAB)

The book is a difficult medium to use to communicate information about an art that is not only visual but mobile. This article reviews childrens dance books that succeed in this difficult means of communication. (38 references) (Author/SJ)

Manuscripts and archives are important to historians and to the companies of origin. What should be collected and when, and the principles of acquisition for these similar materials are discussed. The chief difference is that archives are received'' from one's parent body, whereas manuscripts are collected.'' (8 references) (Author/SJ)

Doubtless everyone is tired of the subject of censorship; but I do have to give vent to my feelings when they are as intense as they are over the selection of a book as full of profanity as a Newbery honor book ( The Upstairs Room''). (Author/SM)

Procedures for solving the problem of overordering copies of books for which fewer copies would be sufficient are discussed. (SJ)

Using approval plans, professional selection can start where the work of the jobber leaves off. Librarians should evaluate service received and the long-terms effects on collection development. (Author/NH)

This paper is directed toward the librarian from a library with a small state document collection. It discusses some possible places to begin a state document collection. (MF)

A fully documented proposal for the adoption of the concept of book rejection is presented. (Author)

The response of readers to an article on Reference Book Reviewing" by Harry Whitmore (RQ, Spring 1970) is presented. (MF)

Selection of the storage facility is only part of the larger problem of how to select books for storage and in what form to store them. (NH)