This article describes how counseling and library staff combined efforts at Red River Community College to organize a career resource center. (HMV)

Report of a study designed to ascertain what trends practitioners, leaders, and professors foresee for the last quarter of the twentieth century as well as innovations they would like introduced in school media centers/programs during this time span. (Author)

Shoreline, Washington, Public Schools remodeled adjoining empty schools to form a high school; engineering students at the University of California (Davis) built their own housing; a Texas high school uses a wide corridor for a variety of purposes; Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, expanded its library facilities. (Author/MLF)

Lists the advantages of using paperbacks in elementary schools and libraries and gives a directory to some 70 publishers of paperbacks for children. (PF)

A review of the concept of educational technology and the implications of educational technology for school library programs. (Author)

Teaching book history as the story of its development as an artifact is undoubtedly important. However, placing that history more prominently within the social contexts of reading and libraries seems crucial to one's understanding of book history, since books are both the continuing means of social practices (such as reading), and since they…

Instructions for arranging screening schedules. (CH)

Describes typical programs of films designed to acquaint audiences with the full range of the film art. (CH)

This bibliography lists selected publications both from areas that relate pornography as a concept to libraries and, by extension, those that relate it to censorship. Introductory material includes listings of the Library Association of the City University of New York (LACUNY) 1987 Institute committee and emcees and LACUNY officers, and the 1987…

This document addresses the recommendation regarding community adult education information services in California's 1989 Strategic Plan for Adult Education. It presents an analysis of the state of the art, the nature of the California model, and four policy proposals to help guide its development. Chapter 1 offers a history and summary of the…

This qualitative study of expectations for and outcomes of practicums in library and information science had four aims: (1) to discover whether faculty, host librarians, and students had the same objectives; (2) to ask students what they experienced in the practicum and compare this to their previously stated expectations; (3) to assess the…

The purpose of this essay is to review documents from library literature which base their arguments in favor of academic status for librarians in whole or in part on the concept of academic freedom. Thirteen such items dating from 1956 to 1975 are identified and discussed. The essay is followed by a discussion of the actual meaning of the concept…

A study undertaken to find a satisfactory system of classifying and organizing materials for college or university learning assistance centers discovered that little information had been published. Further investigation revealed that the two major systems used in libraries, the Library of Congress (LC) and Dewey Decimal Systems, were found to be…

Guidelines for continuing education for information, library, and media personnel are presented in this report, which provides criteria for five different kinds of continuing education strategies: (1) group programs and activities; (2) individualized programs and activities; (3) instructional materials and technologies; (4) continuing education…

This manual introduces basic video production techniques for use by instructors in developing videos for classroom presentations and for "make-up" classes. The topics covered include script writing, camera movements, lighting, sound, location vs. studio production, working with talent, video editing, and the design of the overall production.…