The author sets forth the broad principles of rural library service and discusses some of the difficulties to be overcome. He then advocates the development of networks with strong headquarters organizations as being the most effective method of organizing a rural library system. (Author)

Without library quiet, mankind certainly would have been pushed over that brink the doomsday men of the nineteen sixties predicted. (6 references) (Author)

The Office of Standard Reference Data surveyed by mail 2,700 selected members of the Special Libraries Association to check their knowledge and use of NSRDS publications. The survey revealed that distribution and dissemination procedures of NSRDS publications need improvement. (Author/NH)

An account of a five week world tour by twenty-six school librarians is presented. (MM)

United States military libraries in foreign countries serve the American communities that have developed in response to U.S. military commitments. (2 references) (Author/MM)

To assist acquisition and reference librarians and bibliographers in identifying specific titles and book production in the Arab world. (Author/NH)

If our public libraries are to reach all our people, from the deprived and poor reader to the intelligent and highly trained. they must change their image, both structural and personnel, and must offer more and better services for all. (NH)

Both authors emphasize that no social issue is outside the purview of school libraries. (MF)

A brief description of an art contest sponsored by a library in which children were invited to submit art work constructed from common materials not normally recycled. (AK)

What librarians have done and are doing to serve the handicapped and institutionalized as well as what they might do in the future are explored. (35 references) (Author/NH)

The problems and challenges which confront parish librarians are the same whether the church library is part of the Protestant, Jewish or Catholic structure. This article is concerned with parish librarians and public libraries. (Author/NH)

Unless a limited set of specific goals is pursued with diligence, the local library may find itself running off in all directions at once, trying to satisfy every library-related need of a very heterogeneous "community." (16 references) (Author)