In Pennsylvania 375 public, academic, and special libraries were surveyed in an effort to gather information concerning their interlibrary loan activity during April, 1978; personal discussions with librarians across the state were also conducted. Both sources were used in the development of recommendations for improving bibliographic access. The…

Two separate surveys were undertaken in order to gain information about the field work practices and policies of libraries and schools of librarianship. The survey of schools was carried out during the winter of 1969/70, and that of a sample of libraries in the Spring or Summer 1970. This report interprets the results of the survey of schools; as…

The online search evaluation form recommended by the Machine-Assisted Reference Section Committee on Measurement and Evaluation of Service of the American Library Association is discussed. Each of the 10 questions recommended for inclusion and questions rejected as inappropriate are analyzed. Eleven references and the Search Evaluation…

Because the information/library field in and around London seems well-provided with short courses covering a wide range of topics of presumed interest to people working in this field, a project was undertaken to design and test measures for assessing short courses and to explore the possibility of applying evaluation measures to such courses.…

Brief summaries are provided of 17 library projects being conducted in Illinois during 1974. These deal with the following matters: 1) the development of the Illinois State Library; 2) library manpower training; 3) library research; 4) the Illinois State Library Materials Processing Center; 5) the professional development of library personnel; 6)…