Discusses the role of the emerging tribal libraries, designed to serve as repositories of Native American history and knowledge. Indicates that the tribal libraries and archives have provided a means for recentralizing documents important to Native American history that had previously been moved to distant repositories by outside elements. (MAB)

Discusses the history and findings of the National Commission on Library and Information Science's field investigations of library services for Native Americans. Concerns include literacy, collecting strengths, extent of library services, professional training for librarians, federal support, and access to collections both on and off reservations.…

Provides a history of Native American studies, focusing on Native Americans in North America, and includes an annotated bibliography for library collection development under the headings of reference works, before the Europeans, Indian-White relations, videos, and Web resources. (LRW)

Surveys the history of Indian immigration to the United States and the development of Indian collections in academic, public, and special libraries. Library services to Indian populations are discussed, with descriptions of specific collections, and suggestions are given to improve services and collections. (SLD)

Describes a project to develop a recommended core reference collection for a new campus location of a tribally controlled community college in Minnesota. Describes selection methods and provides a list of general selection considerations and criteria for selected works. Citations for five selected titles are appended. (18 citations) (MAB)

This report describes activities of the program TRAILS (Training and Assistance for Indian Library Services), funded from September 1985 to January 1987 by Title II, Part B of the Higher Education Act, to provide training, guidance, and direction to 506 American Indian tribes and Alaskan Native communities for improvement of public library and…

Four articles discuss library services to diverse user groups. Highlights include the Seattle Public Library's Human Diversity Training Program for library staff; cultural diversity at the University of Northern Colorado, including library collection development; information needs of physicists in special libraries; and library services to…

The Committee on Library Services to Ethnic Populations of the Colorado Council on Library Development was charged with developing a comprehensive plan to address library services for the increasing ethnic/culturally diverse populations in the state of Colorado and with identifying possible funding sources to implement the plan. In addition, the…