This study investigated the effectiveness of a video peer modeling and least-to-most prompting intervention in the school library setting, targeting the instructional delivery of an information-literacy skill to students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Research studies have evaluated the effectiveness of video-modeling procedures in the…

A preliminary study of the availability and distribution of library subject interests was made using the "Directory of the Associatation of American Library Schools." (PF)

A questionnaire was sent to 1,510 students who were admitted to various graduate library school programs but who failed to attend in an effort to detect any patterns in student reactions. (PF)

Directors of 100 library schools, both accredited and unaccredited, answered questionnaires designed to determine their attitudes toward library curricula in the areas of: theory versus applications, thesis requirements, library fieldwork, comprehensive examinations, course requirements, non-print materials, intellectual freedom and censorship,…

This paper discusses the rationale for faculty rank, status, and tenure for librarians at the College of Charleston. A brief historical overview of the profession of librarianship traces the evolution of the function of the today's librarian as a participant in the processes of teaching and research. Standards for academic status are given, as…

At our present state of development, courses in historical bibliography provide unusual advantages in relating the past to the present and opportunities for linking the different elements of professional study in schools of librarianship. Even if, in some future age, librarians are concerned solely with electronic journals and online services,…

Seventy-two graduates of the School of Librarianship of Western Michigan University who attended the school during the years 1965-1970 responded to a survey questionnaire. Data were compiled on the background and personal characteristics of the graduates, as well as their estimation of the relevance of courses taken to their professional duties…

To sample opinion on whether a junior college librarian needs special academic preparation, a 4-item questionnaire was sent to heads of 42 accredited library schools. It asked: (1) Have you special courses for students intending to become junior college librarians? (2) Do you offer special seminars for them? (3) Do you hold (or plan to hold)…

A frame of reference is needed in educating information professionals to grow and be effective in the future. Information professionals need sensitivity to information, its organization, and technological impacts on society, as well as the abilities to diffuse information and perceive analogy across the information field. Six subject areas to…

This guide presents up-dated information, on a world-wide basis, on training facilities in documentation and information work. Only data relating to the formal training of documentalists, information workers and special librarians are included, except for those countries in which only short courses or seminars are available. Forty-seven countries…

This paper attempts to assess the post masters training program given at Wayne State University Medical Library between 1967-1970. Probabilistic conclusions suggest certain educational activities be undertaken: (1) There is no justification to create a post masters program to teach basic library techniques and library schools must incorporate…

A description of the School for Documentalists and Special Librarians of La Plata National University in Argentina is provided. Some background material pertinent to the founding of the School is presented and the administrative relationship of the School to the University is discussed. Entrance requirements are specified, the course of study is…

While libraries, as a species of complex organization, may not be facing immediate extinction, the available evidence suggests their long-term survival prospects are not particularly encouraging. Libraries, in general, have not responded adequately to rapidly changing social, economic and political factors. The locus for change lies in library…

An experiment was performed on the use of telelecture, amplified voice telephone, in a class of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Missouri-Columbia. The telelecture was successful in that it exposed the students to another academic library administrator, and it appeared to be a successful learning…

A search of the literature of librarianship reveals that very little has been written concerning library school student associations. Two questionnaires were designed; one to be sent to the deans or directors of American Library Association accredited library schools; one to be sent to the presidents of student associations at American Library…