Patrick Jones, winner of the 2006 Scholastic Library Publishing Award (formerly known as the Grolier Foundation Award), is 44--seemingly too young to receive what is, after all, a lifetime achievement award. Given annually to a librarian "who has made extraordinary contributions that promote access to books, encourage a love of reading for…

Both program planning and public relations are necessary in attracting readers, watchers, and listeners to the public library. (Author/PF)

Recounts current efforts to bring religious education to retarded children and the place of the library in those efforts. (Author)

Describes how reference librarians can help patrons use machine-readable data files. (PF)

Describes the experience of Georgia State University in producing a newspaper index. (PF)

Discusses the history of the American public library and suggests directions for research. (PF)

Intended to update the 1954 benchmark study, "Adult Education Activities in Public Libraries" by Helen Lyman, this 152-page bibliography of adult services literature lists journal articles, books, dissertations, and government documents alphabetically by author, or, if no author is given, by title. The subject index provided is organized…

In studying library cooperation as a process of exchange, it is possible to approximate its power to affect the ability of libraries to meet their professional obligations. (Author)

Describes the new Tokyo library, with its special services, especially for the visually and physically handicapped. (LS)

Describes the services offered by the national program administered by the Library of Congress Division for the Blind and Physically Handicapped. (Author)

The library's services to readers, collections, and publishing activities are briefly described. (PF)