Summarizes events at the 1988 American Library Association (ALA) annual conference, which addressed such issues as professional recruiting, national politics, leadership, copyright problems, support for the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, accreditation, and intellectual freedom. A listing of ALA officers and awards is…

Ranganathan believed that effective reference service depended on the intuitive "flair" of the librarian and on the use of an analyticosynthetic classification scheme. (Author)

This comprehensive study of Brazilian library literature illuminates the important step towards a national plan through the creation in 1954 of the Brazilian Institute of Bibliography and Documentation with the support of UNESCO, the National Research Council, and other agencies. (Author)

The intention of this article is to serve as a guide to the literature treating the historical development of the American public library. (A fuller version of this article is ERIC document ED 071 668.) (22 references) (Author/SJ)

Librarians are not professionals because they are not involved with saving lives. However, their job is to be a curator of civilization. (DH)

The development of Romanian libraries in recent years with particular reference to the influence of the impact of information work is described. (Author/SJ)

About 206 titles of Chicano periodicals being published throughout the Southwest are listed. (NQ)

A single listing of 1970 and 1971 master's theses and doctoral dissertations, arranged under the various library schools to which they were submitted is presented. Several tables showing the distribution of theses and dissertations among the schools over the period 1966-1971 are also included. (311 references) (Author/KE)

The cataloging in source experiment of the United States Library of Congress ended in 1959. Studies on the feasibility of another pre-publication cataloging program were undertaken and a new cataloging in publication program was started in 1971. Other programs for pre-publication cataloging in Brazil and Russia are described. (21 references)…

A combination of quantitative and qualitative techniques were used to analize the journal articles indexed in one volume of Library Literature.'' This approach, merging bibliometrics and classification, yielded results in such areas as dispersion of articles among journals, frequency of article type and types of subjects covered. (16 references)…

This article serves as an introduction to the Classroom Teaching'' section of the journal and, as such, gives an overview of the articles included in the section. (3 references) (NH)

The emphasis of this article aimed at helping the librarian in the classroom is on preparation. To be prepared to teach, the librarian must blend the information gained from a faculty interview with insights gleaned from daily contact with students. (Author/NH)

The observations about the nature of learning and the role of the teacher in furthering or hindering students' efforts to accomplish it which are expressed in this article may cause both novice and old hand to re-examine their understandings of the teaching-learning process. (11 references) (Author/NH)

This article seeks to report the state of librarianship in Indonesia as it has changed during the lapse of eight years from the time the author left in 1962 and returned in 1970. (Author/SJ)

If there is to be a great debate" within librarianship, statement or restatement of objectives should be the starting point, not the possibilities of applying computers to libraries and information. If professional persons are to have influence over the future of society, a great debate must soon begin. (2 references) (Author/NH)