The problems confronting the interlibrary loan (ILL) librarian and the costs of ILL services, based on a survey of twenty libraries, are reported. (NH)

Experience has shown that when library procedures are simplified to the operational needs of its users, children look forward to their weekly library hour with anticipation -- and read with pleasure. (Authors)

Abandoning all hope of the federal government meeting the ever-increasing need for education, Navajo Indians have established a community college at Many Farms, Arizona, the first and only such institution on a reservation. The library program is described. (Editor/JS)

The library for the Bank Street College of Education in New York City and its laboratory school reflect the policy of interrelating divisional programs, serving school children, graduate students, and professionals with minimal distinctions. A current experiment is intershelving of print and audiovisual materials. (JS)

The Standing Conference of National and University Libraries' program which seeks to give prospective graduate library students a year of in-service training in various government, national and university libraries is described. Recent application and placement data are analyzed and conclusions concerning present problems and future development…

A collection of 144 general reference works was analyzed and encoded according to 254 identifiable characteristics of services and contained data, comprising an approach language" expressing search parameters. (Author)

Library Schools can devise improved techniques in reference librarianship and can encourage a research orientation by better understanding the structure of the literature and the way librarians operate within that structure. (8 references) (MM)

Mathematical models of library operations are presented which describe the amount of use made of resources by a user in a visit, the distribution of book circulation in a collection, the dependence of circulation on time, and the effect of multiple copies on user satisfaction. (9 references) (Author/NH)

Edited version of an address delivered at Institute on Public Library Management (12th, Madison, Wisconsin, April 26, 1968). The library network has not developed because the public has not recognized its potential usefulness. It can provide a new level of service if the value is not nullified by bureaucratic rigidity. (JS)

Establishing the criteria and compiling the data for more meaningful definitions of the role of school library media personnel is only a part of the total process which may include observation, interview, questionnaire, record logs, task analysis, consensus and/or content analysis. (Author)

A definition of the term library system," is followed by a discussion of state legislation relating to library systems. (NH)

Results of this study evaluating library reference service indicate a statistically significant difference at the .05 level between obtrusive and unobtrusive evaluation methods. Library staff answer a greater proportion of questions correctly when they are aware of being evaluated. The 30 questions used, a report form, and references are included.…