The bibliography represents a critically evaluated collection of filmstrips for use with adults and young adults, with special focus on the needs of the under-educated and disadvantaged who read at the eighth grade level or below. Complete bibliographic details make the annotated listing useful as a buying guide. A subject index and an address…

Project Intrex is a program of information transfer experiments directed toward new services and facilities for people who seek information in large libraries. The Project Intrex program includes: (1) the assembly and organization of an information store of sufficient size; (2) the development of the essential facilities for storing, retrieving,…

At its eleventh annual meeting in 1966 the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials decided that the activity carried on principally by informal cooperation up to that time should be brought into a more formal organizational pattern. Draft texts of the Constitution, By-Laws, and Articles of Incorporation were prepared and…

The aims of this one-year research project undertaken for the School of Librarianship were: (1) to determine the various information needs of the user groups in the colleges, (2) to investigate present library services in light of the users' needs and (3) to propose immediate and long-term development plans for the library. In this study the role…

This symposium attempts to bring librarians and university presidents together, to alert the presidents to some of the conditions that have blocked librarians from more daring, and presumably more fruitful, cooperative ventures; to seek their understanding and concern for those considerations, and to elicit council, encouragement or discouragement…

This survey offers an analysis of the present effectiveness and capabilities of the Pueblo Regional Library in the areas of legal structure, facilities, organization, personnel administration, job assignments, Friends of the Library, reference services, circulation of Library materials, Library resources, registration, and budget. It also examines…

Network services for library education and research should include access to: documentation and personnel in combination for research and education and instructional laboratories, instructional packages and testing, and curriculum information for education and computer-based facilities for research. An ideal network, current networks and…

Recommendations are made for further centralization of cataloging and processing for libraries in Indiana. The eventual goal would be to offer such services to all types of libraries in the state, with the exception of special libraries and large university libraries, from several (three to four) regional area processing centers. These in turn…

The results of a questionnaire sent to the users of the Health Sciences Information Service (HSIS) at the University of Kentucky are summarized by this report. Several observations were made from the data presented: (1) when a dependable information service is organized it gets used; (2) the number of individuals who report the use of HSIS through…

The recommendations of this study are: (1) The western provinces of Canada should move toward making available to the university libraries of the region, the prospective benefits of a magasystem organization during the next ten years. (2) There is no present need or justification for mounting an immediate crash program to create the computer-based…

The purpose of this study was the examination of the Albuquerque Model Cities Library Materials and Cultural Centers and of their impact upon the community they serve. This was not a traditional cost/benefit study although it contains many of the aspects of such an analysis. The area served by the Centers is an area of relatively poor persons of…

Lack of adequate administration is concluded to be the main cause of Network inefficiency and ineffectiveness. Some of the recommendations for improvement of Network administration are: (1) The Colorado State Library (CSL) should remain the central agency for administration of the Statewide Reference Network (SRN). CSL should accept responsibility…

The views of three parliamentary librarians and two academics on the subject of library services to Australian legislators are given in this publication. A variety of viewpoints is given in order to stimulate and provoke reaction from the Members of Parliament for whom the book is basically intended. The five articles included are: (1) "The…

These standards are designed to provide a guide for library development in Iranian one and two year colleges. The institutions which they serve offer a diversity of post-high school instructional programs, some preparing students for elementary school teaching, or for a trade, some of them terminal as would be found in community and technical…

The purposes of the Workshop on Measuring the Quality of Public Library Services were to explore attitudes toward service, discuss the many facets of measuring library services and get a close-up view of one particular method of evaluating services: "hidden testing." Informal proceedings of the workshop include: (1) a talk of Ernie DeProspo…