Discusses charging users for public library services, library costs, and the financial structures that influence public library policy. (CHC)

Examines current developments by public libraries in the area of services designed to meet the information needs of female clientele. (FM)

Describes projects of Oklahoma libraries designed to combat the problem of illiteracy among adults and explains Oklahoma Image, a humanities effort aimed at attracting out-of-school adults to public libraries by focusing on the state's multicultural heritage. Column also reports adult service news from other states. (JD)

Librarians should expend less effort on debates about fees for services; instead they should seek to provide those services in the fairest possible manner. Cooperation with vendors, administrators, politicians, and others offers an opportunity to minimize through special subsidies the costs of the services to individual users. References are…

Describes a federally funded project to establish neighborhood resource centers in the branches of the Seattle Public Library system to disseminate university research materials and technical assistance of a local nature to neighborhood patrons. (LLS)

Discusses two special programs for the blind and physically handicapped of the Public Library of Nashville and Davidson County (Tennessee): The WPLN Talking Library and Library Services for the Deaf. (Author)

Suggests that the divisions and animosities of the library community could be resolved through proper emphasis on access to information and resource sharing. Urban versus rural library, school versus public library, trustee versus librarian, and issues of professionalism are examined. (RAA)

The International Year of the Child has provided a good time for librarians to begin to clear their sights, define what the real problems facing children's services are, and do all that is possible within their particular province to effectively serve children. (Author/CMV)

Reports the proceedings of the White House Conference on Library and Information Services. Major recommendations addressed structural changes for the Department of Education; development of a national information policy; cooperative programs for the functionally illiterate; libraries for disadvantaged groups; and an international exchange program…

Formal literacy education in predominantly oral societies, such as those in Black Africa, has flourished at the expense of oral cultural traditions resulting in language problems. Libraries should provide nonprint-oriented services for their potential users. (FM)

Describes the Bibliographic Service Development Program begun in 1978 by the Council on Library Resources. The program's goals include (1) providing effective bibliographic services for all who need them, (2) improving the nature and quality of bibliographic products, and (3) stabilizing the costs of many bibliographic processes in individual…

This report includes an account of the RASD program of the American Library Association at the 1979 Dallas Conference with an annotated bibliography on guidelines for information services, and a questionnaire distributed at the RASD Business Reference Services Committee meeting at Dallas, with tabulated results. (JD)

Examines the problems of providing multicultural and multilingual library services, focusing on material selection, cataloging, indexing, and classifying. (FM)

Discusses the challenge of ethnicity to the profession of llbrarianship, and explores current efforts to include ethnic and minority groups in library education and training. (FM)

Presents a methodology, known as microcosting, for identifying the unit costs of providing specific library services. It is applied for illustrative purposes to the determination of the unit costs of tracking overdue materials at a major university library; a task flowchart, mathematical formula, and data tables are included. (Author/JD)