A STUDY WAS UNDERTAKEN TO OBTAIN AND COMPILE INFORMATION FROM INSTITUTIONS WHICH HAVE DEVELOPED TRAINING PROGRAMS FOR LIBRARY TECHNICIANS. THE COMPILATION, IN REPORT FORM, WAS INTENDED FOR ADMINISTRATORS WHO PLAN TO START LIBRARY TRAINING PROGRAMS, AND FOR STUDENTS, VOCATIONAL COUNSELORS, AND POTENTIAL EMPLOYERS WHO LACK INFORMATION ABOUT EXISTING…

Training of supervisory personnel in libraries is a relatively new practice. The first year of an in-house program is described with suggestions for increasing its effectiveness. (10 references) (DH)

This catalog describes a collection of 290 reels of audio-taped lectures suitable for the college and secondary school library. In total, the tapes represent a basic collection suitable for any college library. Most of the reels contain 45 to 60 minutes of recording. The 556 selected programs cover 24 academic subject areas, including foreign…

Information collected by questionnaires, correspondence, and consultation with library personnel at four collegiate consortia shed light upon the role of libraries in the functioning of these consortia. The results showed that many expectations went unmet. Namely, specialized collections were not efficiently built and shared, faculties exhibited…

Community college librarians should have an understanding of student and faculty characteristics at the local institution, occupationally oriented programs, and the role of professional and semiprofessional library staff members in order to serve their clientele more adequately. Realizing that community college students have average or below…

The Northeast Academic Science Information Center (NASIC) was developed to promote the increased and more effective use of machine-readable bibliographic information resources to support the information needs of the academic research community of the Northeast. NASIC was involved with the continued testing and evaluation of available…