The approach to planning described is a process of self-study for academic librarians that can be used to improve library effectiveness. (MBR)

Explores the increasing demands on resources and services of one large university library by the external community which led to attempts to pass on to the community some of the costs involved in resource sharing, e.g., fees for or reduction of library services, and examines consequences of these changes. (CWM)

Presents a state-of-the-art discussion of school library media supervision at the state, district, and regional levels. (Author)

Evaluates the adequacy or inadequacy of the services provided by the public, state, and school libraries for the handicapped in Nigeria. The scope, objectives, methodology, recommendations, and conclusions of the study are described, as are the institutions surveyed. (FM)

Presents the results of a survey of all state library agencies and the library agency of the Virgin Islands concerning their efforts to support local public library literacy programs and their means of support. (Author/JD)

Describes the philosophy, objectives, services, and experimental research of the Abadina Media Resource Center, which provides library services, materials, and education to elementary school students and provides research and training facilities for Nigerian teachers and school librarians. (Author/CWM)

Traces the various cultural and educational activities of the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (INIDCYA) in Iran in the development of children's library services. (Author/CWM)

Reports the findings of a survey of 226 faculty members in the social sciences at the University of Illinois concerning their use of serials. Information regarding their serial needs, patterns of use, and the usefulness of specified services is presented, and means of improving service despite budgetary restraints are discussed. (Author/JD)

Advocates replacing the traditional library card catalog with a more effective system. Technological developments such as machine-readable catalogs, automated authority control, and computer-output-microform make possible integration of nonbook media, government documents, journal literature, and local information into the main catalog. (SW)

Examines the role of public library services in adult literacy education, the definition of literacy, the nature of service clientele, literacy program development, literacy research projects, patterns of service, materials service, and librarian training for such services. References are given. (FM)

Uses several examples of "adult services" as they exist in libraries today in an effort to define the term. Programs and services described include cultural activities, business services, special language/information services for various ethnic groups, services for the institutionalized, handicapped, and geographically isolated, and…

Reviews the current dynamic nature of library service to the disabled and institutionalized, emphasizing that the concept underlying the provision of special materials, facilities, and programs for such persons is not essentially different from that which underlies service to other adults: the librarian's role is to serve as intermediary between…

Discusses the development and present status of special librarianship in Yugoslavia and uses the Central Technical Library at the University of Ljubljana to exemplify a central technical university library because of its historical perspective, present status, and its current role in the exchange of scientific and technical information in…

Development of a high school media center and services. (KP)

A literature survey of user attitudes and perceptions of circulation services (loan periods, availability of materials, hours of service) in academic libraries indicates a need for better library skills training and professional staff at the circulation desk. (LS)