The main concern is with identifying exemplar user need studies and discussing the possible value of their methodology for a broader range of library services. (Author/MF)

This paper, a lecture to library school students, presents in detail four elements that make a special library special," as background for a discussion of suggested approaches to follow in managing a special library. (Author/AB)

A list of reference books is presented as a basis for a Canadian newspaper library. (Author)

A central library to service American business is a must for corporate libraries that cannot provide the published and unpublished source materials necessary for effective service. (Author)

The church library is primarily a special library which provides resources on the history, theology, educational programs, music, art and worship of a particular denomination not generally found in the local public library. (AB)

A list of several distributing companies which offer programs for paperback and hardback Book Fairs. (NH)

The work of the Federal Library Committee indicates that a group of librarians willing to work together on the solution of common problems can obtain the necessary resources and can be reasonably successful, providing they are endowed with goodwill, persistence, energy and imagination. (Author/MF)

A report on the progress to date achieved under the Library Services and Construction Act in USOE's Region VII by the region's Library Services Program Officer. (Editor/JB)

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

Discussion of the teaching role of the academic librarian focuses primarily on reference librarianship. The interaction between patron and librarian and the necessity for the librarian to teach are noted. Eighteen references are provided. (EJS)

Examines some of the basic principles that should be observed and techniques that can be used to handle inadequate library budgets. Topics discussed include the need to know what is being done, categorizing activities and relating them one to another, and evaluating the impact of change. (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)