Suggests ways and means by which libraries and librarians should change to keep pace with changing needs in our society, and to be responsive to them. (AB)

Part of a series edited for the "ALA Bulletin by Jean E. Lowrie, chairman of the AASL International Relations Committee and head of the Department of Librarianship at Western Michigan's School of Graduate Studies. (Editor)

Part of a series edited for the "ALA Bulletin by Jean E. Lowrie, chairman of the AASL International Relations Committee and head of the Department of Librarianship at Western Michigan's School of Graduate Studies. (Editor)

The author of this poem is a writer and former children's librarian at the New York Public Library's Nathan Straus Branch. (Editor)

Summarizes some of the findings relative to matters of cost and effectiveness of library cooperation programs which may be of general interest to the profession as a whole. (NH)

This paper was presented at the Conference on The Library in Society--Towards the Year 2000, given at the School of Library Science, U.S.C., Los Angeles, April 25-26, 1968.

Urges public librarians to promote the fact that children's services are provided in a totally nonthreatening atmosphere without discrimination or depersonalization. (FM)

Suggests materials and services Australian libraries should provide for the assistance of immigrants with limited English skills. (HTH)

Discusses objectives for public library services to the disabled in terms of material, equipment, facilities, services, and staffing, and reports selected results of a 1979 survey of public library service to the physically impaired. (FM)

Discusses 10 ways state libraries can help combat illiteracy: as planner, initiator/catalyst, trainer, coordinator, resource back-up, demonstrator, disseminator/publicizer, funder, supporter of good public education, and consultant. (Author/LLS)