What should be taught in a library instruction program for general biology students is presented and two ways of providing the instruction are discussed. The two methods, lecture-demonstration and guided exercise are described, and evaluated for their effectiveness. (7 references) (Author)

Issue is taken with the library-college or librarian-as-educator notion which has gained favor with some academic librarians. The author states that one of the reasons for this movement is: Call librarians educators and they will have an effective talking point when seeking full academic status with the instructional faculty." (7 references) (MM)

A library hooks onto junior teens' interest in horror films and expands it to their favorite film personalities, the history of horror film, and film techniques and criticism. (28 references) (Author)

Do puppets belong in the library? The author says yes" and explains how puppets were used to introduce children to all kinds of literature which will yield suitable stories for puppetizing." (NH)

Reference librarians working outside the library with the library clientele may not only increase their effectiveness in transmitting information to library users, but they may become the key element in feeding information about user needs back to the library where administrative and selection decisions are being made. (Author/MF)

A critique of some hallowed assumptions about library cooperative efforts is presented. (Author)

It is the responsibility of the undergraduate librarian to develop substantive service programs and tangible goals. Such goals include close faculty-librarian understanding and cooperation, and productive student-librarian relations. (MF)

The American Library Association's (ALA) Black Caucus expects that the ALA Intellectual Freedom Committee will proceed to carry out the mandate--to censure and bring sanctions against those librarians and libraries that provide service to segregated schools established to circumvent the U. S. Supreme Court Decision. (Author/MF)

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The interest of any adolescent can always be captured with a good story especially if it is told by a professional performer. The actress Frances Foster visited a vocational high school and introduced the students to the excitement of the theater. (MF)

Some of the contributions librarians can make to the Child Welfare League include: participate in day care programs, plan book programs for preschool and school age children and help day care personnel select and acquire library materials. (NH)

Only those processing centers which serve two or more different jurisdictions" are included in this list. (Author/NH)

The concept of shared cataloging described here differs from that of central processing both in scope and depth. The arrangement stresses the sharing of the existing cataloging information with the special library, rather than the processing of material for that library. (Author/NH)