Growing out of concern for lack of library school training for adult education work, this paper summarizes a literature review on librarianship for adult education, outlines topics of concern for a curriculum in adult education librarianship, and lists resources for use in developing such a curriculum. The literature review, focusing on the growth…

Discusses curriculum theory in the context of professional education for library and information science, and outlines steps necessary for curriculum planning: (1) diagnosis of needs; (2) formulation of objectives; (3) selection of content from the universe of knowledge; (4) selection of learning experience; (5) organization of learning materials;…

This discussion of experimental information retrieval focuses on the mathematical and statistical skills needed by students in librarianship and information studies. Theoretical approaches to document representation, query representation, database searching, and evaluation are reviewed, and changes in library schools' curriculum are suggested.…