The training of library staff in interlending and document supply, an area often overlooked in library education and training programs, is explored, beginning with a survey of library associations and a range of schools and departments of library and information science. Responses from approximately 20 associations and 103 schools form a basis for…

A study of library and information science education research needs begins with a collection of readings which provide information on current research, along with needs in the areas of goals and curricula; library school administration, faculty, and students; the relationship among professional associations, library schools, and libraries; the…

Traces development of library/information science doctoral study; examines current status of doctoral programs including enrollment, degrees awarded, costs, financial aid, admission and degree requirements, and coursework; presents reaction to current status of programs by deans of doctoral and nondoctoral programs; and provides personal…

This report discusses the major issues addressed at a two-day conference of Australian and Canadian library and information science educators. Topics include education for the future; core competencies; institutional accreditation; trends in professional education; distance education; economic factors; management education; practical experience;…

Teachers are influential in motivating and improving attitudes towards reading. This article reports on an investigation of eight teachers of 10- to 12-year-old students from five New Zealand schools and the strategies they used to improve attitudes to reading. Each school had been identified as implementing effective reading programmes by a panel…

A report of a national survey of recent school library legislation action at the federal, state, and local level. (Author)

"Media Programs: District and School" offers the practitioner a framework for local adaptation in planning and evaluating an effective media program. It also provides us with an instrument for determining the standards of excellence that can guide us in local program development. (Author)

Gives 35 questions designed for self-analysis. (PF)

The School Library Association (London, England) presents a brief and simplified version of the 1967 "Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules" along with cataloging rules for non-book materials based on the "Non-book Materials: Cataloguing Rules" of 1973. The 33 rules are briefly stated, and short examples are given for main entries,…

Properly nurtured, the volunteer movement in education--and volunteers in our school media centers--will be with us for a long time. (Author)

An interview with Lindy Davis, school librarian in Delta Junction, Alaska. (PF)

School librarianship is now recognized as a section of the International Federation of Library Associations. The section is to act as an international forum for communication with those interested in school library services and will plan projects to assist school library development throughout the world. (JAB)