This series of articles discusses the use of adult and student volunteers in school libraries, focusing on volunteer recruitment; planning, implementation, and evaluation of volunteer programs; training methods and materials; and appropriate rewards for volunteers. (CLB)

High school librarians have the opportunity to educate the majority of the future adult population in the continued use of libraries. This requires a well-defined plan of library-use instruction, interaction with teachers, description of user groups and their informational needs, setting of behavioral objectives, and constant revision of the plan.…

A comprehensive assessment and dissemination study is presented which can be used to design continuing education programs and services for constituents of a professional association that are based on data describing their personal and situational circumstances. In this report, community college libraries and learning resources centers are the…

Describes a publicly funded, five-day training program presented by the University of Michigan's School of Information Studies, which was designed to train school library media specialists to use and apply virtual library technology. The importance of the virtual library concept, the training rationale, and a day-by-day overview of activities are…