Describes a library exercise for journalism students designed to engage them in using library reference books. (HOD)

Indicates various kinds of graduate information science programs available at 36 universities and their addresses and phone numbers. The booklet from which this material was taken also identifies additional programs and other ASIS publications, and its availability is given. (RBF)

A variety of issues are considered in a discussion of faculty-librarian relationships: traditional training and characteristics of college librarians, faculty involvement in policymaking and library practice, the library needs of scholars, stereotypes and individual personality differences, and faculty status for librarians. (MSE)

This description of a program which enables a map library to augment its staff with volunteers from other departments includes objectives for the map assistants, the map librarian, and the institution; qualities that are looked for in participants; and problem-solving reading/discussion exercises designed to increase participants' skills. (JD)

Drew University's library is being expanded and renovated to more than double its facilities. The media resource center will include a television studio. (Author/MLF)

Provides a sampling of several authors' points of view regarding the right of authors to remuneration for library lending. Many of the 19 references cited are letters to the author. (CHC)

Describes a program designed to familiarize students with library research methods. (FL)

Discusses the necessity for conceptual frameworks as organizers of the content of bibliographic instruction, argues that such frameworks provide a necessary basis for generalizable and meaningful learning, and reviews seven conceptual frameworks for use in bibliographic instruction. Twenty-one references are listed. (RAA)

Appraises the effect of the Jarvis-Gann Proposition 13 for the reduction of real property taxes, on California libraries in general and on young adult services in particular. Statistics are provided that document the cutback in library services to children and young adults. (RAA)

Relates information and referral (I&R) services to the specific needs of the older adult. Subjects considered include special problems of older adults, stereotyping, ways of dealing with older adults in the context of I&R, problem callers, relationships with other agencies, and situations when I&R cannot help. (Author/JD)

Discusses factors governing the choice between natural and inverted word order in subject headings containing adjectival phrases. (FM)

The three papers presented discuss the components of the pricing structure for online service vendors (Roger Summit); describe an information system designed to provide agricultural weather data to farmers (Lehnert and Scott); and explore the impact of information delivery systems for the home (Mark Plakias). (FM)

Describes how fast and in what stages earth science grew in America, using the 14,000 entries in "Bibliography of American-Published Geology: 1699-1850" as a database. Bibliometrics, a method to characterize and quantify scientific activity by analyzing published/unpublished materials as measurement of growth, of science was used.…

After a brief discussion of considerations in book selection, the author suggests some new and classic titles in children's literature that may be useful in values education. Publisher, cost and grade level are listed for each recent title. (SJL)

No significant differences were found between the Bem Sex-Role Inventory scores of library science students enrolled at a large university in the western United States and those of a normative group provided by the author of the inventory. (Author)