Inglewood Public Library publishes a variety of materials, mostly manuals. The library staff writes them, the city prints them, and then they are sold through the City Finance Office with sales credits going to library revenues. (Author)

Five branch libraries measured the quantity of books, sound recordings, and periodicals in their catalogs in comparison with the number available for loan. A sampling method similar to those used for political pools and market research was employed. (JAB)

Librarians will need to have the skills to serve physically disabled persons as mainstreaming of handicapped students and employment of disabled workers increase their use of libraries. Results of a 1976 survey of library schools to determine which offer programs preparing librarians to serve disabled persons and the handicapped are reported.…

A discussion of the questions addressed, and the questions ignored by the June 1977 report of the Network Advisory Group of the Library of Congress on a national bibliographic network. (Author/KP)

Suggestions for the planning of library media centers are presented, including educational specifications, budget development, design development, and orientation and inservice programs. (AWP)

Explains how transactional analysis could be used for understanding the problems of an academic library reference department. (PF)

Prepared by the Standards Committee, Reference and Adult Services Division, American Library Association. (PF)

Results of questionnaire mailed to random sample of 170 Canadian chemists and chemical engineers to assess use and effectiveness of Selective Dissemination of Information (SDI) services. (KP)

The primary role of the prison library should be to promote the prisoners' right to read, rather than being committed to providing services and materials to support rehabilitation programs of the prison. (JPF)

This article provides a framework for identifying the administrative parameters that affect the handling of microformated government publications in a library. Once the structure has been explicated, suggestions for successful administrative integration of microformated government publications are described. (Author)

The literature suggests that children's library services have declined because librarians have neglected to document, evaluate, and measure their programs. The collection of such data would help strengthen their position with administrators who are dealing with financial stringency. Suggestions are offered to help counteract the decline of…

Communication between library patrons and staff is accomplished through a suggestion box and a "Talk Back" bulletin board where all replies to questions are posted. (JAB)

Procedures for developing quantitative measures of reference service are described. Through individual interviews, researchers compiled a list of 93 activities performed by the staff. Each activity was evaluated by the staff in four categories: importance, interest, complexity, confidence. (JAB)

Discussion of application of cost benefit analysis (CBA) accounting techniques to libraries highlights user willingness to be charged for services provided, reasons why CBA will not work in library settings, libraries and budgets, cost distribution on basis of presumed or expected use, implementation of information-seeking behavior control, and…

The first of two articles provides an introduction to this issue. The second article discusses the key issues in rare book librarianship over the past 50 years, including acquisition, care, handling, storage, preservation, cataloging, classifying, processing, circulation, security, and training. Both references and a 77-item bibliography are…