A successful experiment was designed to put administrative matters in the hands of non-librarians in order to free librarians for collection development, instruction of students, and involvement with faculty in other university programs. (LS)

Speech given before the Conference on Public-Library Relations (New York City, February 8-9, 1968).

This booklet contains suggestions and ideas for librarians interested in using simple, hand-made puppets in their children's programming. Included are a script for a one-person puppet play, a list of 43 children's stories that would make suitable puppet shows, and suggestions for making and using puppet mascots and finger puppets. Four references…

Services provided by the library at Herlev Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark, are discussed, including patient and personnel lending, exhibitions, films, nursing school library, medical library, and music lending. (RAO)

A SURVEY OF SPECIAL LIBRARIES SERVING STATE GOVERNMENTS WAS UNDERTAKEN AS THE FIRST STEP TO COLLECT NATIONWIDE DATA ON SPECIAL LIBRARIES SERVING STATE AND FEDERAL GOVERNMENTS AND AGENCIES, PROFESSIONAL AND TRADE ASSOCIATIONS, AND COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY. THE DATA COLLECTED COVERED FISCAL YEAR 1964. THREE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-NINE LIBRARIES THAT ARE…

This guide to library resources in the Virgin Islands will introduce the reader to academic, public, secondary school, and special collections of library materials. By scanning the descriptions of the resources, services, and facilities of the territory's libraries, students and researchers can be assured of finding library assistance to fit their…

This report outlines planning activities of the Pahlavi National Library in Iran. Steps taken in the planning process include: proposal, recruitment of consultants and advisors, preparation of background papers, seminar on present conditions and beginning planning, preparation of position papers by consultants, and review. Descriptions are…