Describes the Machine Readable Cataloging Format (MARC) and discusses the issue of accountability for maintaining cataloging standards. Groups that influence the use of MARC records are then examined, including the Library of Congress; publishers; vendors of cataloging services, including bibliographic utilities; professional agencies; district…

A librarian at the Western Illinois University Library examined a list of the approximately 380 current subscribers to the Alternative Press Index (API), which has been the only access point to most periodicals on the political left since its beginning in 1969, in order to see who and what kinds of libraries receive the index. The Library Bill of…

In December 1973, the Council on Library Development set up a task force to carry out an integrated study of library manpower and education needs in Wisconsin, and of the resources available to meet those needs. The study was concerned with personnel at all levels, in all types of libraries, media centers, information centers, and similar…

"Media Programs: District and School" offers the practitioner a framework for local adaptation in planning and evaluating an effective media program. It also provides us with an instrument for determining the standards of excellence that can guide us in local program development. (Author)

A compilation of questions addressed to the exploration of "Media Programs: District and School." (Author/PF)

Had the precedent set in 1920 been followed, the school library would long since have established its image as a media center and library schools would have been providing training in the nonbook aspects of school librarianship. (Author/AB)

A challenge to bring the revised American Association for School Librarians and Association for Educational Communications and Technology standards into the context of individual worlds. (Author)

The scope of these recommended standards for policy and provision of school library resource centers in Great Britain encompass the following six areas: (1) scope and arrangement of the memorandum; (2) the purpose and function of the school library; (3) administration, organization and finance; (4) staff: duties, status and qualifications; (5)…

Iranian school library standards were adapted from American school library standards and have received Tehran Book Processing Centre executive committee approval. While Iran has several foreign schools, libraries and librarians, there are no Iranian professional school librarians to take an interest in the standards. Furthermore, the present low…

A well rounded education in primary and secondary schools has been handicapped by the inadequacy or absence of good library services to support the instructional programs of the schools, to broaden the intellectual horizons of the students, and to inculcate in them a lasting desire to read. (Author)

Reactions of school library/media personnel and administrators to "Media Programs: District and School." (PF)

Four separate reports include (1) proposed international guidelines for school libraries; (2) standards and regulations for school libraries in the USSR; (3) the development of school libraries in Poland; and (4) the activities of the Federation of Yugoslav Library Associations, which is working on a national plan for library and information…

All states and the District of Columbia were asked for information on revised certification requirements for school librarians or media specialists within each state. The requirements, frequently in the original wording, are reported. (See SLJ p.22, December 1972, LJ p.4043, December 15, 1972, for Phase I.) (5 references) (Author/SM)

The definition of standards, background developments, the current scene, the impact of national standards, and issues or challenges affecting standards are discussed. (24 references) (Author)