Six outstanding librarians comment on the Mission Statement from ALA's Public Library Association Goals, Guidelines, and Standards Committee. (JPF)

Motivation in the library must come from the nature of the task and the individual's attitude toward the task. It is the responsibility of the library to meet the hygiene needs of employees and to provide motivators. However, it is the ultimate responsibility of the individual to respond to the motivators. (Author/VT)

A survey of public libraries was undertaken to determine what is being done to attract non-users to the library. The respondents reported a variety of programs such as community-wide publicity, book promotion, and citizen-on-the-street interviews. (JAB)

Narrates the experiences of the Miami-Dade Public Library in dealing with Cuban immigrants in this area and its contributions to their success story. (VT)

Examines the position of school libraries in the educational system and discusses the lack of adequately trained staff to ensure the development and maximum efficiency of these libraries, and the need for all school libraries to meet certain minimum standards. (VT)

Inglewood Public Library publishes a variety of materials, mostly manuals. The library staff writes them, the city prints them, and then they are sold through the City Finance Office with sales credits going to library revenues. (Author)

Five branch libraries measured the quantity of books, sound recordings, and periodicals in their catalogs in comparison with the number available for loan. A sampling method similar to those used for political pools and market research was employed. (JAB)

Librarians will need to have the skills to serve physically disabled persons as mainstreaming of handicapped students and employment of disabled workers increase their use of libraries. Results of a 1976 survey of library schools to determine which offer programs preparing librarians to serve disabled persons and the handicapped are reported.…

A discussion of the questions addressed, and the questions ignored by the June 1977 report of the Network Advisory Group of the Library of Congress on a national bibliographic network. (Author/KP)

Suggestions for the planning of library media centers are presented, including educational specifications, budget development, design development, and orientation and inservice programs. (AWP)

Explains how transactional analysis could be used for understanding the problems of an academic library reference department. (PF)

Prepared by the Standards Committee, Reference and Adult Services Division, American Library Association. (PF)

Results of questionnaire mailed to random sample of 170 Canadian chemists and chemical engineers to assess use and effectiveness of Selective Dissemination of Information (SDI) services. (KP)

The primary role of the prison library should be to promote the prisoners' right to read, rather than being committed to providing services and materials to support rehabilitation programs of the prison. (JPF)

This article provides a framework for identifying the administrative parameters that affect the handling of microformated government publications in a library. Once the structure has been explicated, suggestions for successful administrative integration of microformated government publications are described. (Author)