Academic librarians need to learn how people learn, what they want to learn about, how the whole man is put together and how he functions. The most important thing about a library is not how it is organized but why it exists. (Author)

The unresolved problem of titles with their attendent effect on professional status in the field of librarianship is discussed at length. (NH)

In a year of wonders in the world, signs of real change began to be clear in libraries and librarianship. (Author)

A survey determined that only libraries of academic and business encouraged professional staff to improve their levels of competence and subject knowledge by obtaining additional qualifications. (2 references) (AB)

Issue is taken with the library-college or librarian-as-educator notion which has gained favor with some academic librarians. The author states that one of the reasons for this movement is: Call librarians educators and they will have an effective talking point when seeking full academic status with the instructional faculty." (7 references) (MM)

Suggests that a librarian may help stimulate the use of reference materials by putting them on book trucks and wheeling them to the class that requests them. Describes the system used for overnight check-out of such materials. (RW)

There is a considerable difference of opinion in the bibliographic repertoire to which students are exposed and the numbers and types of specific titles which they are required to recognize. (AB)

The need for librarians to participate in professional continuing education is stressed. (MF)

Japanese bibliographies of library literature are reviewed and the history, scope, content and form of bibliographies and indexes covering writings from 1868 to the present are discussed. (Author)

Sooner or later a perfected edition of the present cataloging rules, purged of the noxious compromises, will have to be prepared. (Author)

A detailed guide on how to index slides using descriptors and on how to search the file once it is prepared. (AA)