Public library services to children have made great contributions in the past and should be preserved at all costs. (5 references) (AB)

Public libraries can no longer be all things to all people," they need to set one or two major goals to serve one or two major sectors and give everything they have to this effort. (7 references) (Author/NH)

The purpose of the Voices of Brooklyn" project is to promote multicultural understanding and to involve the people of the various cultures in a common cultural undertaking. (Author/MM)

What should be taught in a library instruction program for general biology students is presented and two ways of providing the instruction are discussed. The two methods, lecture-demonstration and guided exercise are described, and evaluated for their effectiveness. (7 references) (Author)

Issue is taken with the library-college or librarian-as-educator notion which has gained favor with some academic librarians. The author states that one of the reasons for this movement is: Call librarians educators and they will have an effective talking point when seeking full academic status with the instructional faculty." (7 references) (MM)

A library hooks onto junior teens' interest in horror films and expands it to their favorite film personalities, the history of horror film, and film techniques and criticism. (28 references) (Author)

Do puppets belong in the library? The author says yes" and explains how puppets were used to introduce children to all kinds of literature which will yield suitable stories for puppetizing." (NH)

Reference librarians working outside the library with the library clientele may not only increase their effectiveness in transmitting information to library users, but they may become the key element in feeding information about user needs back to the library where administrative and selection decisions are being made. (Author/MF)

A critique of some hallowed assumptions about library cooperative efforts is presented. (Author)

It is the responsibility of the undergraduate librarian to develop substantive service programs and tangible goals. Such goals include close faculty-librarian understanding and cooperation, and productive student-librarian relations. (MF)

The American Library Association's (ALA) Black Caucus expects that the ALA Intellectual Freedom Committee will proceed to carry out the mandate--to censure and bring sanctions against those librarians and libraries that provide service to segregated schools established to circumvent the U. S. Supreme Court Decision. (Author/MF)

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