This article introduces a series of ten articles from the nine Regional Library Services Program Officers of the U.S. Office of Education.

The emphasis of archives is on the maintenance and preservation of materials for scholarly research and professional reference. Archives may be established as separate entities or as part of a library or museum. Film archives may include camera originals (positive and negative), sound recordings, outtakes, scripts, contracts, advertising…

This letter of transmittal from the President to the Congress of the United States accompanies the final report of the White House Conference and stresses the importance of libraries to the nation; emphasizes the responsibilities of the government to support library and information services; reminds administrators and legislators of their roles in…

Recommendations for the choice of corporate authorship and the form of corporate name are proposed as bases for international agreement in this area of cataloging. These recommendations are based on three assumptions: (1) that main entries are necessary and important; (2) that choice between conflicting alternatives should be to select that…

This document reproduces the adult education listings in the Syracuse University Bird Library Pamphlet File. All entries are classified under the subject Education--Adult, with each item listed alphabetically by title under one or more of the descriptive subject headings. One update listing, which is organized the same way, is also included. A…

The central focus of this research was to analyze the impact of ideas originating from within librarianship and information retrieval and those from other disciplines. Twelve most cited journals in librarianship and information retrieval (source specialties) were chosen for citation analysis. From these journals, 40 articles were randomly selected…

THE USE OF THE LANGUAGE LABORATORY HAS GIVEN MANY THOUSANDS OF INDIVIDUALS GOOD LISTENING AND SPEAKING PRACTICE AND HAS BECOME AN EFFECTIVE LEARNING TOOL. THE BASIC PIECE OF EQUIPMENT OF THE LANGUAGE LABORATORY IS THE TAPE RECORDER-AND-PLAYBACK, DESIGNED TO BE USED WITH AUDIOPASSIVE STUDY, AUDIOACTIVE STUDY, AUDIOACTIVE-COMPARATIVE STUDY, AND…

THE OVER-ALL OBJECTIVE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO PROVIDE SPECIFIC INFORMATION CONCERNING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF COMPUTER-BASED INSTRUCTION IN TEACHING THE USE OF THE LIBRARY. THE SIXTY-SIX STUDENTS WHO PARTICIPATED IN THIS THREE SEMESTER EXPERIMENT WERE UNDERGRADUATES ENROLLED IN LIBRARY SCIENCE 195, A COURSE OFFERED FOR CREDIT BY THE UNIVERSITY OF…

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS, STOREROOM SUPPLIES AND LIBRARY MATERIALS FOR PROJECT HEADSTART ARE LISTED AS MATERIALS YET TO BE RECEIVED. AN ITEMIZED ACCOUNT OF ITEMS RECEIVED IS PRESENTED IN CHART FORM REVEALING THE NUMBER OF ITEMS ASSIGNED TO EACH PARTICIPATING SCHOOL.

More than 2,000 documents about citations, citation analysis, citation indexes, and bibliometrics are cited in this bibliography. Some documents on communication in science, scientometrics, the science of science, and information retrieval have been included where they apply to citation indexing. Although most of the documents cited are in…

This bibliography presents selected monographs, journal articles, and dissertations dealing with school libraries/media centers. The 119 citations are listed in six categories: (1) bibliographies; (2) evolution of the media center concept; (3) development of instructional technology; (4) research supporting the media center concept; (5) standards…

Adult education and information science can be viewed as aspects of the endeavor to communicate collective human knowledge and experience. Where self-learners "need to know" intersects with information and library science skills in meeting user needs, dynamic interaction may take place. Information systems research at Stanford University, Purdue,…

This glossary was compiled to provide reference material for participants at Hawaii's Second Governor's Conference on Library and Information Services and is especially useful to those individuals not familiar with the terminology of the library and information sciences. Entries consist of 194 names, acronyms, and other terms which are arranged in…

Current trends in cataloging nonprint materials and the new Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) cataloging standards are discussed. The bulk of this paper is composed of suggestions for cataloging nonprint material by organizing data into prescribed areas, each of which contains one or more elements of information. (DS)