Recommends that librarians consider emotional and other use-oriented classification and guides to supplement existing fact oriented classification schemes. Lack of imaginative acccess systems thwarts the exercise of user imagination in the pursuit of personal goals. (RAA)

Discusses the current widespread acceptance of the public library model for prison libraries, in which preferences of the inmates are the chief consideration in programing and collection development. It is argued that this model results in recreational programs and collections that fail to fulfill the prison library's role in education and…

Various techniques for providing reader's advisory services in public libraries are discussed, including managing the reader's advisory interview, writing annotations for booklists, preparing topical and effective displays, genre cataloging, holding book talks and reviews, using library space effectively, and utilizing e-mail discussion groups to…