Report of a seminar that linked library education with product development. (Author)

This report contains recommendations concerning the need for additional opportunities in Ohio for graduate study in library science, as well as the probable location and the appropriate kinds of program emphasis for a new library school. The study considers the following campuses of Ohio's state-assisted university system: Kent State University,…

This article is based on a speech delivered at the Conference of the Southwestern Library Association, Oct. 17, 1968, in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

An educator dedicated to innovation takes a long look at the critical questions facing library educators today. This is an edited version of a talk delivered by the dean of the University of Maryland School of Library and Information Services at Long Island University in September 1969. (Editor/JB)

The author notes three approaches to library education today: the traditional approach, the information science approach, and the approach which seeks to use what is best in the traditional while incorporating the more promising innovations. The author feels that library education ought to prepare librarians to be solution seekers rather than…

Describes an applied research project which builds on a perceived need for community information and through exploiting the professional know-how of library science, takes the initiative in inventing and designing an information product and service to meet that need. Discusses cooperative planning and describes seven main components of the work.…

The purpose of this three-year research project, begun in the summer of 1967, is to provide information on the manpower requirements of the library and information professions in order to assist in the solution of problems relating to the selection, recruitment, training, and utilization of personnel in these changing fields. This report on the…