PPBS (Programming Planning and Budgeting Systems) has an exciting potential for libraries in fostering improved community relations, assurance of a fairer share of the public purse, and confidence among all concerned that the emergent public library is focusing its resources on the highest priority needs of the community. (Author)

A plan of technical services organization based on function rather than form of material is proposed and briefly described. Professionalism in technical services is also considered. (Author)

The survey examines three commercial services which reproduce on microfiche the catalog card output of the Library of Congress. Two services which index the National Union Catalog (NUC) and the Title II depository cards by LC card number are also described. (Author/NH)

The purpose of the Books/Jobs Program is to help Ohio's libraries reach and serve both those needing information and skills in order to obtain and hold jobs and the staffs of government and social agencies which work with the unemployed and underemployed. (Author/MF)

This article provides an overview of a new project for a long-range program of research to improve the quality of Federal technical library and information services. (MF)

The work of the professional librarian on the reservation with the Indian student is interesting and challenging. The library problem is different from that of other school libraries. However, in spite of the difficulties, there is much joy in working with these likeable Indian teen-agers. (Author/NH)

Several investigative approaches were used to determine the adequacy of these methods in producing management and planning data for library services for health professionals. (AB)

Five steps for setting up a library system based on a student-centered philosophy. (JW)

Traces the history of Title IV-A of the Library Services and Construction Act as it relates to correctional libraries, and the effect of the legislation within the last three years. (Editor/JB)

The Brooklyn Public Library's coordinator of children's services and other staff members report on a variety of successful innovations used to attract children to the library. (JB)

Summarizes the problems and solutions of an experimental research project in library service to the black urban poor. (MF)

A library-college media center can serve to merge the library and classroom and to establish an innovations center. The staffing requirements of the media centers include media specialists, media technicians, and media aides. (MS)

A description of the privately supported, American public subscription library in Paris. (JB)

Although library instruction in university libraries is agreed to be a "good thing, insufficient attention has been paid in this country to the human aspects of such instruction, to the people involved in it and to the social situation in which they find themselves. (Editor)

The opportunities National Library Week offers to school media specialists. (JB)