A three-part, model certification scheme for school media personnel is presented. The first part is a discussion of the planning of state certification designs including point-of-entry into the profession, continuing development of competencies, and basic entry-level competencies. The candidate assessment process is discussed in the second part…

A working meeting in Bangkok, Thailand, September 13-15, 1973, was called to consider three main topics: (1) the current status of exchange of information on population and family planning; (2) the feasibility of establishing national and regional networks for collection and dissemination of information on population and family planning; and (3)…

In 1968, a project was undertaken to establish an audiovisual learning resource center within the Dana Medical Library at the University of Vermont. Measures were pursued to increase faculty and student involvement, to expand collections, to organize collections by subject headings, and to formally establish the Office of Instructional Resources.…

The present report is the twenty-first in a series describing research in information storage and retrieval conducted by the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University. The report covering work carried out by the SMART project for approximately two years (summer 1970 to summer 1972) is separated into five parts: automatic content…

A set of guidelines for evaluating films before purchase is provided in this revised manual. Included are sections on how to form an evaluation committee, schedule a screening, write a synopsis, judge the potential uses and audience, and assess technical quality. An evaluation form is provided and its uses explained. A special section demonstrates…

The Watergate scandal has profoundly shaken the confidence of the American people in their government. One aspect of Watergate which can be immediately corrected is that of secrecy. In the abolition of secrecy and the defense of intellectual freedom, librarians have a role to play. American librarianship has taken upon itself the task of providing…

The role of the information center in the National Program for Library and Information Services is projected. The various types of information centers are identified and defined, and the generation, processing, communication, and use of information and knowledge are reviewed. A plan is given for the integration of existing information centers into…

Advanced technology will have a great effect on medical education because it can speed up medical education and boost the quality of instruction without straining the capacity of medical schools to expand or driving costs to unreasonable levels. Six examples of an application of advanced technology to medical education are described in this…

The universities' need for knowledge is expanding with the knowledge being created, but the need is for knowledge to be readily available, not for it to be permanently stored on each campus. To accomplish this entails dedicating existing libraries to the service of all universities through interlibrary loans, extending interlibrary cooperation to…

Three problems in the field of library science concerning the education of reference librarians which this project attempted to solve were: (1) unsatisfactory teaching methods, (2) variation of education and skill among students and (3) lack of self-instructional materials. The development and testing of computer-assisted instructional materials…

This paper, in making several proposals for improving university design to meet the needs of students, urges that students be given a greater role in planning physical facilities. The following proposals are made: (1) No rigid line of demarcation should be drawn between living and working facilities; (2) the design should provide for a maximum…

This is the report of a survey conducted to determine what journal literature resources were available in 178 institutions of higher learning offering graduate training programs in reading. A survey questionnaire was developed which listed 47 journals, tabbed in an earlier study as highly productive reading research journals. The questionnaires…

Literature cited in this annotated bibliography is organized into 5 categories: (1) fiction--52 entries published from 1940 to 1966; (2) poetry, plays, creative writing--8 entries published from 1966 to 1967; (3) myths, legends, folktales--23 entries published from 1947 to 1967; (4) nonfiction--32 entries published from 1959 to 1967; and (5)…

In 1925, "Tales From Silver Lands" was awarded the Newbery medal as the most distinguished contribution to American children's literature for the year. The book contains a collection of 19 short stories learned from the Indians of South America as the author traveled to different lands. As described on the dust jacket, the tales are…

The purpose of this study was to determine whether participation in the activities of a library resource program would improve the psycholinguistic abilities of a group of disadvantaged first grade pupils from an urban community. Twenty-five children for the experimental group and 25 for the control group were selected randomly from one school in…