On August 30, 2019, the Vatican Library hosted a satellite IFLA conference on topics related to education for professionals, exactly 90 years after the first international conference was held in Rome, when the IFLA was officially named and its first statute was established. This paper was presented at the satellite conference to briefly summarize…

The overarching assessment of youth services rendered by Leslie Edmonds in 1987 remains largely true today: that its most influential force remains not research, or evidence, or constant professional improvement or addressing field-based challenges, but "superstition." Research in youth services pedagogy, likewise, offers a perpetually…

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A brief review of the history of the Resources and Technical Services Division of the American Library Association from its founding in 1956 to the present is presented. (Author)

Among those profiled are Justin Windsor, William Frederick Poole, Charles Ammi Cutter, and Melvil Dewey. (PF)

A brief history of Stoke Newington and South Hornsey (North London), their literary figures, early volunteer libraries, and the evolution of the Stoke Newington Public Library. (LS)

Illustrates how the American Library Association's (ALA) federal legislative program has been implemented over the years, based on an officially adopted legislative policy and a flexible legislative strategy. Highlights the organizational components essential to an effective legislative program for libraries, whether at the federal or state level.…

History and current status of special libraries serving business, industry, and government. (LS)

Throughout the hundred years history of education for librarianship some issues have been discussed again and again without agreement being reached. A number of these are quite central to the problem of education for a profession: the desirability (or otherwise) of professional schools; the control of education by professional bodies; theory vs.…

The history of the development of the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules is a record of some successes and some failures in the attempt to produce a rational and efficient code. (Author)

Traces the chronological development of the national professional association for school media personnel: 1914-1951. (Author)

The benefits and the problems for American librarianship in the American Library Association (ALA)-Library of Congress (LC) association can best be understood through examining the origins of their relationship. (7 references) (Author)