Management philosophy has shifted from emphasizing organization and control of library activities to concern with achievement of predefined organizational results through participation and coordination. This article examines some aspects of results-oriented management that have impeded adoption and considers what its future is likely to be in…

Based on a review of the literature and a questionnaire survey of 21 institutions which have had this type of library, this study examines their development and identifies factors that may have contributed to success or failure. (Author/JAB)

The Systems and Procedures Exchange Center (SPEC) of ARL, which acts as a clearinghouse for current operating practices in libraries, is now open to everyone. Its flyers and kits reporting results of surveys show how libraries solve budget and other management problems. (JPF)

This series of articles approaches the major issues in academic libraries including faculty status for librarians, mass instruction method for teaching library skills, performance appraisal for librarians, and the controversy as to a research requirement for all librarians. (JAB)

Discussion deals with the library environment under Theory Y administration, the drawbacks of management by committee, whether librarianship is really a profession, the collegial organization of libraries at academic institutions, the management of change, and the changes of bureaucracy with a strong, central administration. (JAB)

A practical survey of college and university libraries' use of periodicals, their cost effectiveness, and the use of interlibrary loans and the function of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest Periodical Bank in Chicago, Illinois is presented. (Author/AP)

Discussion of the future of academic libraries is presented. (AP)

In this article the Illinois Regional Library Council and its services, Infopass Program and Northeastern Illinois Delivery System, are described. Both cooperative functions are examined according to meeting the needs of individual libraries, cost savings, or expansion of services to the user. (Author)

Operative assumptions about librarians as teachers and the concentration of instruction on technical rather than conceptual skills are questioned. The importance of teaching a conceptual framework for development of library researching skills is stressed, with reference to ideas about the learning process. (Author)

A system for library orientation used at the University of North Dakota included cue cards suspended from the ceiling in five areas--reference, study room and computers, periodicals, government documents and microforms, and special collections--at which a tour group would listen to a brief talk. Student and staff response was favorable. (1…

Reviews the literature concerned with the users of maps in libraries, and presents profiles of four such user groups in an academic environment: students, faculty, business and government institutions, and the general public. Twenty-two references are cited. (FM)

This description of the experience of a large academic library using headings in the OCLC database which have been converted to AACR2 forms incorporating LC authority records includes specific problems as well as benefits. Cataloging guidelines used by the staff at the University of Illinois are appended. (RAA)

Discusses a study which examined the disposition, one year after input, of a sample of original cataloging contributed to the OCLC database by the Indiana University at Bloomington Libraries. (Author/FM)

Argues that the role expected of libraries is significantly different now from what it was for nearly 95 percent of the span of library history, and that this change of purpose has not been reflected in the current budgetary and management priorities of librarians. Nine references are cited. (FM)

Describes a study which sampled two card catalogs of varying sizes in order to find the percentage of personal authors who have only one entry, and discusses the implications of the results of the study for adoption of "Anglo-American Cataloging Rules 2" (AACR 2). (FM)