The emphasis of this article aimed at helping the librarian in the classroom is on preparation. To be prepared to teach, the librarian must blend the information gained from a faculty interview with insights gleaned from daily contact with students. (Author/NH)

The observations about the nature of learning and the role of the teacher in furthering or hindering students' efforts to accomplish it which are expressed in this article may cause both novice and old hand to re-examine their understandings of the teaching-learning process. (11 references) (Author/NH)

A deeply personal, religious article conveys the concerns of a librarian in Alaska. (MF)

The first of two articles provides an introduction to this issue. The second article discusses the key issues in rare book librarianship over the past 50 years, including acquisition, care, handling, storage, preservation, cataloging, classifying, processing, circulation, security, and training. Both references and a 77-item bibliography are…

In a year of wonders in the world, signs of real change began to be clear in libraries and librarianship. (Author)

Issue is taken with the library-college or librarian-as-educator notion which has gained favor with some academic librarians. The author states that one of the reasons for this movement is: Call librarians educators and they will have an effective talking point when seeking full academic status with the instructional faculty." (7 references) (MM)

In this document are suggested standards for Iranian university libraries. They have been adapted from foreign library standards to fit the Iranian situation and have been established to guide Iranian university librarians seeking to know the factors normally associated with good quality library service. They are neither intended to lead to poor…

In this document are standards for Iranian senior college libraries. A four year or senior college may provide a liberal arts education or preparation for a particular profession, like nutrition or banking. These standards have been adapted from foreign library standards to fit the Iranian situation. They have been established to guide Iranian…

The author primarily focuses on specific Israel contributions to librarianship, but at the same time observes their general library practices. (6 references) (SJ)

In most profit-making organizations, if a lack of funds forces a choice between a library and an information center, it would be the library which would go. (Author/MF)

When the author ran into other recent graduates at the American Library Association (ALA) annual conference in New Orleans in 2006, several told her they were not happy with their jobs. After months of searching, they settled for positions in isolated rural libraries, have jobs with little responsibility, or are expected to manage their staff…

Libraries have long functioned as institutions which exerted wide-ranging cultural-social activity as determined by the economic and cultural needs of society. Librarianship as an educational factor has become increasingly important during the past half century with respect to its quantitative growth and its quality world-wide. Although the school…

Forty-four documents printed between 1967 and 1974 are listed in this annotated bibliography of library science and documentation literature which were written in Vietnam in connection with the Library Development Activity of the U.S. Office of Education, U.S. A.I.D./Vietnam. The bibliography is arranged chronologically to reflect the…