Librarians and media specialists need to know how to develop a political campaign for the improvement of student learning through increased public support for school library media programs. The first step is to organize, with a steering committee and a network of people, for communication and action. Goals must be formulated, priorities…

This paper provides a cursory description of 22 new items available at the Great Plains National (GPN) Instructional Television Library--programs in history, geography, reading, language, and mathematics for elementary or secondary school students; course materials in accounting, management, and mathematics at college level; informative materials…

Discusses benefits of library training for undergraduate students in political science and identifies strategies for integrating library research into the undergraduate curriculum. Concludes that one of the major objectives of political science education should be to help students acquire political information-gathering skills. (Author/DB)

Discusses the history, present state of the art, and future possibilities of bibliographic control of microforms and how bibliographic control directly affects microform use in libraries. (Author)

Discusses five main components in teaching on-line bibliographic searching: (1) general introduction, (2) specific introduction, (3) demonstration search, (4) live search, and (5) assessing search results. Methods of demonstration involving videotaped searches, audio cassettes, and digital cassettes as well as live demonstrations are analyzed as…

Discusses efforts to establish international agricultural information services. The activities and the future of these systems such as the FAO's International Information System for the Agricultural Sciences and Technology (AGRIS) are also presented. (HM)

Describes the collection of papers located in the Congregational Library in Boston which relate to the history of American education in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Papers include manuscript minutes of meetings, financial ledgers, correspondence of the American Education Society, and reports concerning colleges and theological…

Shows how a learning lending library can be established to coordinate early childhood education at home and in nursery schools. (RL)

This annotated list of almost 75 free periodicals is designed to enrich the curriculum for junior and senior high schools, and to serve as a resource for teachers and librarians. Information is given on content, format, frequency per year, and value to student and teacher. (Author/JK)

The supervisor of consumer education for the Ohio State Department of Education lists guidelines developed for the consumer education coordinators placed in 16 of Ohio's 102 vocational education planning districts. He notes that the State provides funds for two services operated by the coordinators, resource libraries, and inservice programs. (MF)

The American Studies Research Centre at Hyderabad, India, is primarily a library whose collection focuses on a field that cuts across many disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. It is a resource center for Indian scholars teaching and researching American subjects. (LBH)

Four aspects of user satisfaction are identified and discussed: output, service policies, library as a whole, and interaction with library personnel. While techniques for output measurement have received the greatest attention, other assumptions can be made about user satisfaction measurements. They will be affected by requirements, expectations,…

Describes the emphasis of decision support systems as being on the decision making process itself, rather than the flow of information; reviews the uses of microcomputers in libraries in recent years; and compares five decision modeling software packages. An appendix lists the name, manufacturer's address, price, and hardware requirements of each…

Describes how school media specialists may function as change facilitators through indirect leadership, operating on the basis of expertise rather than organizational position, and illustrates four communication strategies used to accomplish this function. (CLB)

Discusses end-user searching at Exxon through in-house training and with Searchmaster, a user friendly front end system. The six menu-like Searchmaster programs, which permit end-users to perform routine searches on specific databases, are described. (EM)