A self-interview by a deaf person who is the District of Columbia Public Library's Community Librarian for the Deaf. (PF)

An interview with the chief of children's services, Duval county Library System, Jacksonville, Florida. (PF)

An interview with Margaret Garnaat, a young Zuni woman who runs the library in her pueblo. (PF)

An interview with Barbara Barber, community information librarian at the Topeka Public Library, Kansas. (PF)

An interview with Steve Rogge, county librarian, Cambell County, Wyoming. (PF)

Public library services are threatened by a national mood of economic conservatism. Librarians should actively combat the threat by defending services, making collective decisions, resisting inflation, seeking federal support, responding to charges from politicians, and increasing efficiency. (FM)

A profile of Marty Martelle, director of the Sacramento City-County Library System. (PF)

An interview with Bob Smith, coordinator for young adult services, Cuyahoga County Public Library, Cleveland, Ohio. (PF)

The world has changed rapidly and violently since the author went to his first library. But, he still believes in the mystery and magic of language, the power of the printed word, and in the library as a vital literary center and sanctuary as well as a headquarters of social and community activity. (Author/SJ)

This overview of public library unionism in the United States notes viewpoints expressed in the literature citing public-employee dilemmas, negotiation restrictions, and union effects on bureaucracies. Seventeen references are listed. (EJS)

This essay aimed at large and medium-sized public libraries discusses library administration as a low-level function meant to support, rather than rule, the nonadministrative staff; management and administration as separate functions; the delegation of responsibility; and tasks of the administrator. (EJS)

Discusses institutional library services for the mentally retarded and addresses the use of audiovisual aids in reducing residents' anxiety, the problem of residents' passivity, and retarded users in the public library. (FM)

Questions the impact of the new copyright law and warns librarians against expecting too much from resource sharing. (Author)

Summarizes findings of the 1990 American Library Association (ALA) Survey of Librarians' Salaries. Data are presented on salaries for seven academic and public library position titles in 1989 and 1990, and percentage differences between the two years are given. (MES)

Briefly describes the findings reported in the American Library Association (ALA) Survey of Library Salaries for 1988, including comparisons of salaries in libraries grouped into type and size categories, geographic regions, positions within libraries, and salary increases since 1986. Information needed to order the full report is provided. (CLB)