Three topics of prime interest to research libraries are discussed during the program portion of these minutes: microforms, national serials data program, and the financial problems of research libraries. The presentations regarding microforms are the "The ARL Microform Project: A View from Within" and "Controlling the…

The fifteen speeches presented at the 25th Annual Conference of the Canadian Library Association are: (1) Presidential Address, (2) Theme Day, (3) The Revolutionary 70's, Are We Ready, (4) The Prime Mover: The Role of the National Library, (5) What You Expect Out of Machines, (6) Twenty-Seven Million People: Four Million Square Miles: Where Shall…

According to its President, the Association's achievements during the year were hampered by the change in Government, financial cutbacks, price increases, and job shortages for qualified librarians, but its membership continues to grow and its activities continue to diversify. Other topics covered in the report include the public lending right;…

The four papers in this volume of institute proceedings present: (1) a retrospective, subjective look at foreign-trained librarians employed in North American libraries and foreign students in North American library education programs, (2) statistical analyses of current policies and practices relating to the employment of foreign-trained…

By the first decade of the twentieth century, libraries were collecting pictures, post cards, clippings, recordings, music rolls, and stereographs. Circulation of these materials was often restricted, however. A number of progressive librarians stressed the acceptance of nonprinted materials as complementary to the book medium to the library…

This March 1973 survey assessed library use by non-affiliated users by type of library in the six county library council region. Among the items on the questionnaire distributed to over 100 public, academic, school, and special libraries were: (1) the purpose of the library visit and the subject matter of interest, (2) satisfaction with services…

A statement of the developmental process and content of the AASL certification model. (Author)

Examines issues of special library management and the emphases in SLA (Special Libraries Association) continuing education courses dealing with these issues. Five courses taught for SLA are described, including one-day courses on management communications, delegation, and effective supervisory skills, as well as seminars dealing with human…

The theme of the 1987 annual conference of the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) was "Information: Relationships with Other Disciplines." Educators agreed that to survive programs have to engage in interdisciplinary interaction, the crucial factor being either which discipline to join or how the school…

This summary of the 1988 Conference of the Association of Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) focuses on faculty participation in academic policy formation. Association politics, the ALISE research awards program, and special interest group programs on the role of catalogers and student participation in policy formation are also…

Discussion of professional status of the college librarian includes a definition of "colleges," decline of status of college library in American Library Association and Association of College and Research Libraries, crisis in higher education and implications for colleges, bias against "small" in academic librarianship,…

Various concepts from "In Search of Excellence" are described in context of authors' personal styles. Discussions address thinking in terms of options, using statistics, learning value of corporate politics, a bias toward action, productivity through people, the "lean-machine" concept, staying close to client, entrepreneurship…

Discusses professional ethics in librarianship as system of values and rules that govern way in which librarians view and practice their profession. Background, definition of terms (ethics, professional), development of codes of ethics, history of American Library Association Code of Ethics and 1981 statement, and role of education are covered.…

Discusses funding for library research (1964-84), including previous findings; problems in analyses of funding; activities of major research funding agencies (Higher Education Act of 1965 Title II-B, National Science Foundation, National Library of Medicine, Council on Library Resources); and funding by professional organizations. Problems and…

Examines issues arising from recent controversy associated with American Library Association's (ALA) support of MLS degree as minimum requirement for professional employment. Highlights include ALA involvement in legal cases and viewpoints of ALA groups focusing on goals, constituency and handling of conflict versus nature of librarianship and its…