This is the fifth annual report of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS), covering the period July 1, 1975-June 30, 1976. Supporting studies described include: the role of the Library of Congress in the national network; the impact of Federal funding programs on public libraries; a national inventory of library…

The guide identifies over 75 sources of book reviews in the reference department of McLennan Library at McGill University as of 1977. Describing many standard reference books, the guide was designed to assist students looking for book reviews and to illustrate the variety of sources for reviews in the McLennan Library. Section one, Major Sources…

This publication has been developed to assist correctional administrators and librarians to comply with recent court mandates on prisoners' rights of access to legal reference services and materials. The Introduction includes some basic suggestions for selecting a location for the law library in a correctional facility, and considerations to be…

With today's demands for accountability, some new methods should be evolved for evaluating the services given by the school library media center. Since circulation counts, head counts, and similar statistics have provided only an approximation of the real services provided, an opinionnaire was devised to survey the faculty about library use,…

Following a brief description of the size and type of materials housed in the North Dakota State Library, provisions are outlined under which these materials will be loaned to school, public, academic, and special libraries and to individuals in the state. For each type of material or research request, procedures, costs, and limitations are…

Procedures for indexing local history pictures, both individual and in books, are explained in this manual, based on practices of the Newark, New Jersey Public Library. Details are provided about format of catalog cards; rationale for various pieces of information on the cards; the use of locality, with subheadings, as main entry; use of added…

Thirteen short papers are presented which discuss various aspects of library acquisitions, programing, and evaluation of services. Among the papers are the reports of the American Library Association's Committees on copyright and on legislation. Media topics included a compilation of bibliographies, primarily of film sources; a study of media…

The library program as a support to reading instruction in the primary grades is the focus of this handbook. The first section, "Philosophy and Program Implementation," stresses the key idea of integration of library and reading programs and presents specific suggestions for implementation. The second section, "Administration of the Program,"…

The reader-written book program at Rockford (Illinois) Public Library has been an extremely successful outreach program used to interest the disadvantaged child in library materials and services. Reader-written books are written by using the language experience approach techniques of having the child tell a story orally, recording that story on a…

Lockheed has undertaken Project DIALIB to determine whether online retrieval services could be useful to the general public, and if the public library could serve as the linking agent for these services. As part of the study, DIALOG, Lockheed's online reference retrieval system, has been made available to the public through four public libraries…

A Directory of services for the handicapped in Ohio college and university libraries is the result of a 1975 survey. Alphabetically arranged entries provide the name, address, and telephone number of each institution as well as the name of a person to contact for more information. Special services provided by each library are identified. These may…

The results of the first attempt at a comprehensive survey to identify and document interlibrary cooperation activities in each of the 50 states and United States territories are reported. Compiled by the Interlibrary Cooperation Subcommittee of the Association of State Library Agencies, the report is arranged by state and territory. It contains…

The literature is reviewed regarding possible uses of bibliotherapy and the use of books as therapeutic aids in the emotional stabilization of troubled children. Emotional problems of elementary school students are defined, and the methodology of bibliotherapy is discussed, including: (1) sensitizing teachers; (2) developing a library; (3)…

An annotated bibliography describes toys and games appropriate for a library serving the mentally retarded. Materials cited are entered under communication skills, concepts, life skills, motor skills, and sensory skills. A listing of publishers' and manufacturers' addresses is included. (NR)

For the purposes of this annotated bibliography, multitype library cooperation is defined as: Where two or more legal library entities cooperate in sharing resources, personnel, facilities, and/or programs with a library or libraries having a different legal base and being of another type. In an introductory section, sources of information on…