The key objectives of this report and bibliography are: (1) to describe the major emphases of literature related to research in the areas of inservice training in 2-year institutions, noting substantive studies, and (2) to delineate significant gaps in the present literature. Three fundamental inservice training questions are discussed: What is needed? How do we meet the need?; and What are the overriding problems in instituting inservice education? Gaps in the current literature on inservice education are related to the need to give more attention to: the role of the graduate school in and the effects of retrenchment and collective bargaining on staff development; data on inservice needs; descriptions of models for staff development and of inservice models meeting the special problems and potential of adjunct faculty and classified staff; problems posed by weak or nonexistent commitment to staff development by community college trustees or into methods to elicit and strengthen trustee support; seeking low-cost high-return programs; the value of community advisory boards in planning inservice programs and models for successful participation of such boards; and the influence and emphasis of accrediting agencies on staff development and inservice education as one indicator of institutional vitality. The annotated bibliography offers a review of the substantive literature pertinent to community college staff development. (DB)