A two week, part-time institute, formed by the Community College of Denver to acquaint library supervisors with minority life-styles and aspects of employing minority library technical assistants, is described and evaluated. The first part of the document describes the Institute, its chosen problem, plan, and program. The personnel and…

A survey was conducted to provide an analysis of faculty homework expectations on which to base a viable pattern of library service. Students were surveyed in winter quarter 1974 about their life patterns and use of services, with particular attention given to homework assignments and library use. Faculty were given the results of the survey,…

Librarians store, protect, and provide the knowledge our modern society needs, but it is frequently difficult to justify the services a reference librarian provides. The work load of a reference librarian varies greatly with periods of frantic activity separated by much longer inactive periods. The role is principally passive, waiting for library…

In light of today's inflation and the changing priorities of the present Administration, the Office of Education (OE) has taken careful stock of its inventory of programs and has attempted to plan rigorously for the needs of the present and the future. Over the years, OE expenditures on library programs have had significant impact on public,…

The Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, to which was referred the joint resolution (S.J.Res.40) to authorize and request the President to call a White House Conference on Library and Information Services in 1976, reports favorably thereon with amendments and recommends that the joint resolution as amended, do pass. The Committee does not look…

Developed by the State Library with the advice of the North Dakota Advisory Council on Libraries, this long range plan describes programs developed to meet the assessed needs of the State population, insofar as it is possible to satisfy these needs through the provision of public library service. The plan is to be reviewed annually and revised in…

An eight-question survey was mailed to every fifth home in Plainedge, New York, on January 10, 1974. The questionnaires were color coded according to election districts to aid in determining if there were any differences in attitudes toward, or use of, the library, in relation to location, or possible correlation with census tract data relating to…

Four instruments to be used in developing school library and media programs are included in this package. Two questionnaires, addressed to students, teachers, administrators, and library staff, inventory current services and determine service priorities. Seventeen charts for data collection and a 20-page costing matrix are provided. Instructions…

These are published presentations of the symposium in Canberra, Australia. The first major paper is a survey of Southeast Asian Studies in Australia since 1945. Other papers include: a review of progress of the Australian Advisory Council on Bibliographic Services survey of Southeast Asian resources in Australian libraries; current and future…

A university library can and should be a center for individual access to all forms of research information media, both print and non-print. The author presents a summary account of an effort to determine existing needs at the University of Connecticut for non-print information resources and services under the following headings: the University of…

The Institute on Environmental Information Programs for Public Libraries which was held at Western Michigan University on May 7-13, 1972, brought together practicing public librarians who had been successfully coping with the service demands made on their institutions by growing concern over environmental problems. As librarians who are dealing…

This document is an annotated bibliography of research studies published between 1960 and Fall 1972 on the topic of library services to children, from preschool to age 14. The first section is a discussion of the significant findings of the studies cited, with an evaluation of the implication for the library profession. The second section consists…

The basic thrust of the planning and operation of the research project reported here was to investigate methods of accelerating the development of a climate of receptivity to new influences in the emerging and vital area of networking, to which the Ohio library community has a recorded commitment and whose impact will create a new perspective, and…

Document delivery support for selective dissemination of information (SDI) services provided by the Center for Information Services, University of California at Los Angeles, was measured by the following: (1) Obtaining copies of all steady-state SDI searches from Biological Abstracts'"BA Previews" data base delivered to the University of…

An automated service center was established to assist in developing improved and extended instructional materials services for all teachers and students in the public and private schools of an eleven county area in New York state through offering coordinated and automated purchasing, cataloging and processing of all forms of instructional…