The employee's union and management at the Brooklyn Public Library are developing a new promotion policy and procedure. (PF)

A four-story screenlike "wall" containing stacks, offices, and reading rooms is added to a university library. (Author/MLF)

New Caledonia, a French territory (population 153,500) is the only Pacific island with a plurality European population (60,000), mostly French. There are also 17,300 Polynesian migrants and some Vietnamese, Chinese, and Indonesians living there. The South Pacific Commission Library holds 60,000 volumes and provides library services to the…

This is a bibliography of 236 children's periodicals published in the United States between 1789 and 1900 and collected by the Library of Congress represents those that could be identified and actually located. No comprehensive list of children's periodicals exists, therefore several sources were consulted to determine what had been published,…

This second annual encyclopedia summary updates the American Library Association's (ALA) evaluation of 10 sets and analyzes the deletions and additions made to each encyclopedia within the context of each publisher's revision plans. The board looked specifically for significant changes in purpose, arrangement, content style, general quality, and…

Academic libraries are particularly affected by current financial problems in U.S. higher education. Lack of funds to make transitions as rapidly as higher education has changed focus or added dimensions is a recurrent theme in academic library development. This article presents the major developments and critical points of U.S. higher education…

For the study of mass communication in social, cultural and political contexts, this annotated resource guide presents a list of materials available in the McGill University Libraries in Montreal, Canada. As a select bibliography, the guide concentrates on current sources, although some historical coverage of newspaper and journalism is included.…

This bibliography provides annotations on over 165 testing sources in the collection of the Humboldt State University (California) Library. Focus is on psychological and educational tests. Information resources are grouped according to information need, including sources of tests or information about tests, and by subject. The Library does not…

The Lekotek, a toylending library program for mentally retarded children which started in Sweden, has expanded to serve families with disabled children in Evanston, Illinois. The Lekotek procedure involves a parental interview to determine the child's needs and family visits in which a Lekotek leader has a one-hour session with the child and then…

This paper examines the training and education of information manpower in the formal educational institutions of Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East. The nature of the information, social, and economic infrastructures in developing countries is also examined. It is suggested that promotion of the supply side of the information…

To aid all interested persons in the use of Government depository libraries, the Joint Committee on Printing periodically publishes a committee print providing the addresses and telephone numbers of all libraries in the system. The 1984 committee print is divided into six sections: (1) an overview including subsections on authorization, types of…

This study addresses the problems caused by the major insect and rodent pests and molds and mildews in libraries and archives; the damage they do to collections; and techniques for their prevention and control. Guidelines are also provided for the development and initiation of an Integrated Pest Management program for facilities housing library…

This digest brings together the various views on curriculum-related roles for library media specialists. The first section considers reasons why a disparity between theory and practice exists in regard to the involvement of library media specialists as curriculum consultants. Several sources addressing this issue are reviewed in the second…

Funded by the Council on Library Resources, this project surveyed thesauri in the fields of art and architecture to seek out existing projects and analyze their content and form. It found that no comprehensive or standardized thesaurus presently exists for art and architecture; rather individual subjects are tailored to meet the needs of a…

This paper presents the major characteristics of the Chinese Character Code for Information Interchange (CCCII) and indicates its intended application for the interchange of Chinese information among computer systems and communication facilities, especially in library networks. It is considered sufficient for present day library applications,…