This report begins by examining the educational legislation governing the special technical schools for librarianship and information and documentation in West Germany, with emphasis on the practical approach implicit in the statutory requirements. The theoretically-grounded, practically-oriented program at the Gesellschaft fur Information und Dokumentation (GID) is then detailed as a model program for such schools. Three recently completed GID projects are described which involved online retrieval, experimental/descriptive depictions of the Science Citation Index, and bibliography of the information and documentation field. Recommendations for improving the teaching standards in these schools are also presented. The text is supplemented with seven tables and eight figures, and a 20-item bibliography is included. (EW)