All sides of the issue are examined in the course of a dialogue between four members of the Centre for Educational Television Overseas. (LS)

A discussion of the current pressures on libraries to organize their non-book materials, and the reluctance of professional bibliographers to perform the bibliographic control of media which is essential to their location, selection, storage, retrieval, and preservation. (RM)

Describes studies illustrating how shared cultural knowledge (or lack of it) can affect reading comprehension, as well as those experiments directed to story structure. Implications for teachers and librarians are discussed. Forty-two references are provided. (EJS)

Query forms used in library information systems are expressed in a generalized notation. Three relations, the FIELD, the inverse FIELD and the RECORD, are defined to express file access operations in known-item and subject searches, browsing, clustering operations, and truncation and word proximity searching. Eighteen references are cited. (EJS)

Five articles discussing the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) cover its meaning to United States librarians, goals and objectives, the presidency of IFLA, Universal Bibliographic Control program, and Universal Availability of Publications program. An IFLA fact sheet including address, programs, membership,…

Tracing the development of school library controversies involving book removals, this article examines federal court cases including the Supreme Court's split decision in "Board of Education v. Pico." Outlined is how First Amendment principles have been used in the resolution of these cases. (MD)

Describes the computerized film documentation system being developed for use in the Film Archives of the Netherlands Information Service. The organization of the films by historical periods, the film access system, content analysis of the films, and operation of the film retrieval system are discussed. Four figures accompany the text. (Author/JL)

Presents information about book publishing in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), drawing on a variety of sources, including a survey sent to the publishing houses themselves. The reading public, organization of the publishing industry, and centralized administration are discussed. An appendix listing GDR publishers and a 33-item reference list…

Discusses advantages and disadvantages of online availability of computerized versions of encyclopedias and notes works currently and soon to be online, searching strategies (subject headings and full-text), cost effectiveness, and librarian skepticism. (EJS)

Study presents data based on American Association of University Professors (AAUP) tabulations for salary comparisons between instructional faculty and academic librarians. Eleven references are provided. (EJS)

A study conducted to determine essential competencies for school media specialists revealed that 21 competencies (in library organization and management, library services, instruction) met Florida Council of Teacher Education criteria for an essential competency and 42 did not (in curriculum planning, research, audiovisual production,…

A proposed cataloging and information access tool for children's media would combine the most useful aspects of library subject-heading lists and thesauri to meet American Library Association recommendations for subject cataloging of juvenile material. Computer-based production of a preliminary edition is planned for 1983. Fifteen references are…

Documentation of author's personal experience in the purchasing of a microcomputer discusses background learning, the purchase decision, needs assessment, computer literacy, general information on microcomputers, the situation assessment, and the final check. (EJS)