This is a collection of conference papers given by graduate students enrolled in a seminar course in Comparative Librarianship. Topics focused on library education and library development programs in foreign countries and Southwest Wisconsin. Professor Philip Altbach opened the conference with a summary version of his paper entitled…

The Student Library Assistants of Wisconsin (SLAW) have prepared this handbook to explain several phases of their student media assistant program, which seeks to organize clubs of high school student volunteers to work in school and public libraries. The handbook provides suggestions for organizing local groups, in terms of constitution,…

The Wisconsin Division for Library Services is responsible for the administration of federal programs for school and public libraries and for the supervision, improvement, and coordination of public, school, academic, and special libraries. The division's report presents both narrative and statistical descriptions of the status of all types of…