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Peer reviewedEstabrook, Leigh – Library Trends, 1979
Addresses the questions of why community library services have failed to become integrated with traditional public library services, and how such services may develop in the future in the light of service techniques, professionalism, organizational behavior, and trends in human services. References are included. (FM)
Descriptors: Community Information Services, Human Services, Library Services, Outreach Programs
Peer reviewedHaynes, Jean – Library Trends, 1978
The development of public library film services to the elderly is traced from its beginning at the Cleveland Public Library in 1941, through legislation that strengthened it, to current services, e.g., outreach programs. Guidelines for the improvement of service are included. (MBR)
Descriptors: Films, History, Improvement, Legislation
Peer reviewedParlato, Salvatore J. – Library Trends, 1978
Library film services for the hearing-impaired are discussed. Captioned and nonverbal films are defined, and a discussion of changing attitudes that resulted in integrated showing of these films is presented. Pointers on how to integrate, and sources of information on films for the hearing-impaired are also included. (MBR)
Descriptors: Captions, Deafness, Definitions, Films
Peer reviewedMcCallan, Norma J. – Library Trends, 1980
Provides a sense of scope and direction of rural public library extension services through the presentation of a library survey dealing with bookmobile programs, books-by-mail services, and the provision of services in general. (FM)
Descriptors: Bookmobiles, Delivery Systems, Library Services, Library Surveys
Peer reviewedEastlick, John T.; Schmidt, Theodore A. – Library Trends, 1975
Library service programs during the 1960s were mainly supported by federal funds. Since 1969 the costs of these programs seem to have been absorbed into regular library budgets. (PF)
Descriptors: Budgets, Disadvantaged, Federal Aid, Library Expenditures
Peer reviewedCasey, Genevieve M. – Library Trends, 1974
Explores the library and information needs of the aged and the functionally illiterate. (PF)
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Disadvantaged, Illiteracy, Information Needs
Peer reviewedLucioli, Clara E. – Library Trends, 1978
Aspects of providing such services are described, including (1) published standards; (2) outreach programs to meet specific needs of the deaf, elderly, and disadvantaged; (3) adaptation of equipment to meet special needs of the elderly; and (4) examples of programs integrated into the structure of public libraries of varying size. (MBR)
Descriptors: Definitions, Federal Aid, Futures (of Society), Institutions
Peer reviewedAnderson, Dorothy J. – Library Trends, 1987
A review of changing attitudes of library directors toward children's services shows parallels between the rhetoric of 100 years ago and that of today. Library directors interviewed believe children's services are essential to public library survival, the library's critical outreach arm, and dependent on multitalented, politically astute…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Futures (of Society), History, Immigrants
