A seminar on practical MARC cataloging was held at Southampton University library in April 1972. MARC is an acronym for Machine Readable Cataloging, a system devised by the Library of Congress and developed with them by the British National Bibliography. MARC enables the catalog data for any given work to be read and manipulated by the computer,…

Services currently offered at the University of California, Berkeley, Library are evaluated in terms of their special or potential relevance to graduate students, especially as they meet students' needs in the various stages of their graduate careers--course work, dissertation proposal, dissertation research, and dissertation writing. (Author)

Describes the methods used to instruct students in the use of the Purdue University Physics Library. (PF)

The Mechanized Information Center, a department of The Ohio State University Libraries, offers to the campus community several batch-mode information services from commercially available data bases. The search request interview provides an opportunity for instruction regarding OSU's computer-based literature searches, automated library facilities,…

This paper discusses vehicles for education and training, tools and techniques for promotion, and details the information requirements of the processors, service managers, searchers, and end users of on-line data bases. (Author/KP)

Eighteen journal articles and monographs on learning theory and its possible applications to library instruction are listed and annotated. Most of the materials were published within the last 10 years, although some earlier titles that are considered basic are included. (EM)

This essay arguing for retention of sophisticated reference-desk service as separate from library instruction notes brief history of relationship and two fundamental reasons for separation: a "one-shot" lecture could not cover every tool useful for research needs of each individual student; and not all patrons are experiencing library instruction.…

The relation between library instruction and the reference function is explored, noting characteristics and aims of both functions, terminology (bibliographic instruction and library instruction), user attitudes toward library use, correlation of the two services, and purposes of both bibliographic instruction and the reference process. Sixteen…

Identifies nature of problems affecting library instruction in smaller public libraries and reports on writings which may be helpful to those libraries having no formal library instruction programs. Trends, a definition of the problem, literature reviewed, philosophy of library instruction, and programs over past 10 years are highlighted. (29…

Outlines history of library development in Japan, discussing the different role originally played by academic libraries in relation to their Western counterparts and noting increasing importance now being given to user education. The Kanazawa Institute of Technology Library Centre is given as a case in point. Ten references are listed. (Author/EJS)

Guidelines are presented for library collection development activities which include: budgeting and allocation, the formulation of collection development policies, the development of review programs to assist in the solution of space problems, and the description and evaluation of library collections. (Author/AP)

The University of Wisconsin-Stout library has developed a keyword out of context (KWOC) index to handle repetitive, routine or directional questions for students. (PF)

A new way to personalize library orientation and develop library skills using a media kit consisting of three cassette tape recordings and a workbook developed at Oklahoma Christian College is described. Selection of the equipment used is also discussed. (Author/KE)