An innovative program for senior citizens, available through Wisconsin public libraries, furnishes multi-media kits designed to bring back memories of county fairs, train rides, and other familiar experiences. (JAB)

Countries are increasingly interested in providing adequate library services to ethnic minorities. The National Library of Canada's Multilingual Biblioservice is described. Cooperation on an international level is needed to provide efficient services to migrant workers and ethnocultural minorities. (Author/KP)

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has a contract with the University of North Carolina School of Library Science for support services in the operation of the EPA Library. The contract is carried out through an internship which permits students to experience special library work. (Author/PF)

This article examines the movement from 1939-1974 to organize American university libraries according to subject divisions. The origins of this form of organization are examined in early patterns of library organization and service, the need for subject access to library collections, the requirements of undergraduate students, and important…

A comparative analysis of the time and cost to a library of providing on-line searching services without charge, or for a fee, is presented. (Author/KP)

This article explores the growth, origins, technological development, and current activities of bibliographic data bases, and examines the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science national program relative to these aspects. (Author)

Various results of school media center services evaluations using the Purdue Self-Evaluation system are described. (AP)

An overview of a public library's puppet program is given with an illustration, list of materials, and step by step procedures for the construction of a portable puppet theater. (JPF)

Four papers discuss: (1) AACR2's effect on library public services; (2) problems of serials cataloging with AACR2; (3) the application of AACR2 to descriptive cataloging of serials in the Library of Congress and the CONSER (Conservation of Serials) project; and (4) bilingual serial cataloging at the National Library of Canada. (MES)

This discussion of the issue of confidentiality or privacy in reference service describes similarities to other professions and explores the legal ramifications of confidentiality. Suggestions are offered to complement official professional guidelines in this area. Twenty references are listed. (MES)

Describes the work of Educational Information Centers (EICs) in public libraries, using several case histories as illustrations. Ways in which EICs change libraries and their roles are discussed, and the support of the W. K. Kellogg Foundation for development of EICs is reviewed. Four references are listed. (MES)

Discusses the long-term value of bibliographic records to the library and the cost and service implications of that value. Topics covered include records in the public domain; sources of machine-readable bibliographic records (bibliographic utilities, state and multistate networks, commercial vendors, federal agencies, libraries); rights and…

This essay arguing for retention of sophisticated reference-desk service as separate from library instruction notes brief history of relationship and two fundamental reasons for separation: a "one-shot" lecture could not cover every tool useful for research needs of each individual student; and not all patrons are experiencing library instruction.…

The relation between library instruction and the reference function is explored, noting characteristics and aims of both functions, terminology (bibliographic instruction and library instruction), user attitudes toward library use, correlation of the two services, and purposes of both bibliographic instruction and the reference process. Sixteen…