Legal education for prisoners integrates the goal of protecting prisoners' rights with correctional education goals. Legal education benefits from the resources in prison law libraries and high student motivation. Special problems include unrealistic prisoner goals and expectations and lack of necessary basic skills. (Author/CH)

The functions of electronic mail and online catalogs are described, and the possible uses of the two in conjunction for library purposes are explored, including notes between librarians, broadcast news, patron notifications, selective information dissemination, and interlibrary loans. (Author/CLB)

Seven vendors express their views on the importance of standards to facilitate the linkage of in-house and external computer systems. The subjects addressed include integrated versus linked systems, national and international standards efforts, and the involvement of librarians in the development of standards. (EM)

Describes EasyNet, a gateway system to multiple online vendors. It allows occasional access without learning each system's commands or contracting with each vendor, with either the searcher selecting the database or letting the system select one. Costs are described and various special option plans for specific types of libraries are explained.…

Suggests that gender is irrelevant to good library management, questions the argument that women make better managers because they are more nurturing, and stresses the need to challenge preconceptions about the roles of working parents if representation of the sexes among library managers is to reflect the librarian population. (EM)

Discusses M. Landsberg's "Guide to Children's Books," which contains her thoughts about 350 children's books. (FL)

A Canadian librarian relates her experience of being expelled from the United States, where she had an eight-month library job, after her four-month B-1 visa expired. Immigration laws and regulations affecting employment of Canadian librarians by U.S. libraries are explained and potential problems for both librarians and employers are described.…

Defines field of psychohistory, a form of history that makes systematic use of concepts, principles, and theories of psychology in order to enhance understanding of particular individual or of people and events in past; reviews major writers and publications; and discusses special concerns of the librarian. Thirty-four footnotes are provided. (EJS)

This discussion of the oral history and oral tradition of Africa covers the nature of oral archives, theoretical objections to validity of oral tradition and oral history as historical sources, value of oral archives for African countries, accessibility of oral archives, and strategies for improved access. Footnotes are provided. (EJS)

Discusses the effects of microcomputers on online services and products from the perspectives of the major participants in the online industry--database creators and providers; service or network operators; libraries and information brokers; and end users. Ongoing developments and trends affecting participant groups are reviewed. Three references…

Overview of recent developments in field of telecommunications, especially newer transmission media and equipment, highlights new information services and systems (telebanking, teleshopping, videotex); opportunities for libraries (storing material, information generation, provision of equipment, library management); reasons for adopting new…

Focusing on micrographics, this article discusses the role of the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM) in the development and sponsorship of standards applicable to libraries. Standards relating to microformats, assessment of microform quality, and truly "archival" conditions are examined. A list of current AIIM…

In ten countries today--but not in the United States--each time a book is borrowed from a public library, its author is credited with a small payment or library usage royalty. This system, known as Public Lending Right, or PLR, is described. (MLW)

Discusses political questions raised by the existence and growth potential of the online retrieval industry because it is privately owned and profit oriented. The user fee debate, information ownership, danger of manipulation, libraries as marketers, library action, and a library database consortium are highlighted. Seventeen references are cited.…

Details the evolution of the status of "academic professional" developed at Dickinson College to fill the need for a professional category for librarians and others who are neither administrators nor faculty. Faculty status, contract status, the tenure crunch, noncompetition, and arguments for the integrity of the category are…