Reviews 18 articles on Israeli libraries published between 1978 and 1995. Highlights concerns about the lack of a clear national role for the Jewish National and University Library, the slowness of libraries to adopt MARC standards, a weak national policy on public libraries, slow development of school libraries, and the limited professional…

This document presents three essays which challenge the image of women librarians as passive and subservient; reexamine the feminine ethic of caring; and document the power of a pervasive women's network that was generational as well as hierarchical and social. The first paper, "Invisible, Indestructible Network: Women and the Diffusion of…

Analysis of emergence of learning resources concept and interactive education principles as special phenomena in library science highlights a paradigm for librarianship, evolution of standards for school and college libraries as conceptual models, and textbooks in school librarianship, the library college, and for librarianship in higher…