Digital libraries and collections are a growing facet of today's traditional library. Digital library technologies have become increasingly more sophisticated in the effort to provide more and better access to the collections they contain. The evaluation of the usability of these technologies has not kept pace with technological developments,…

Since librarianship is making available and exploiting information for the benefit of people, librarians must know about information resources, about people, and about systems for linking resources and people. They need (1) basic abilities--literacy and numeracy; (2) organizational qualities, including vision, a questioning approach, perspective,…

Twenty-one case studies, representative of an area of concern in school library administration, are presented as a classroom technique for students of school library management. Analysis and interpretation of these cases by students provide a vehicle for teaching library administration. (AB)

Except where older documents are listed to preserve a series, the citations are restricted to current items. Publications of all faculty, students and staff of the Case Western Reserve School of Library Science are included. The scope of the research conducted by the personnel of the school and their interests in basic and applied approaches,…

International understanding and the advancement of knowledge are the two goals that are thought to be both quantitatively and qualitatively desirable as goal statements for internationalism in library science. (68 references) (MM)

Students and faculty in library schools and librarians in the field are engaged in a reassessment of librarianship and library education. Such special topics as communication and behavioral science, information retrieval, library automation and systems analysis and design are beginning to form the basis for a new core of library science. (5…

An attempt was made at Kent State University to obtain more student involvement in the activities of the library school. (AB)

The five points made in this paper are (1) library-centered library education must involve use of the organization of library literature; (2) that the dimensions of library literature include (a) the resources produced by and for librarians, (b) the literature of the disciplines upon which librarianship draws and (c) the literature with which…

A library school to serve the English-speaking Caribbean has been set up with Unesco assistance at the University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica. This article examines the potential demand for librarians in the region, discusses various problems facing the profession and prospects for the future. (15 references) (Author)

There is a considerable difference of opinion in the bibliographic repertoire to which students are exposed and the numbers and types of specific titles which they are required to recognize. (AB)

The need for librarians to participate in professional continuing education is stressed. (MF)

A survey of American library education and development in the last century. (LS)