School libraries have become a big business in Canada with very large budgets, specially designed quarters and facilities, and staff requiring a great range of skills and knowledge. The papers presented at this workshop examine the educational preparation needed by such personnel to administer a modern school library program. Background papers…

The views of theorists on Librarianship and library economy can be roughly classified into the following four groups: (1) There are two scientific disciplines existing independently: library science (with librarian activity and the library being the object of research), and bibliology (with the book, its history and development as the object of…

The activities of a two-week library executive development program held at the University of Washington are outlined. This program was organized to help executives of all types of libraries understand current issues and concepts in business and public administration so that they will be better able to meet the needs and demands on libraries as…

Thirty librarians from Great Britain attended the Seminar on Human Aspects of Library Instruction. This document is a transcript of the tape from the Seminar. It provides the text of the papers presented, and the verbatim oral questions and answers of the group discussions. The two papers presented are: (1) "Instruction or Induction: The…

This report contains recommendations concerning the need for additional opportunities in Ohio for graduate study in library science, as well as the probable location and the appropriate kinds of program emphasis for a new library school. The study considers the following campuses of Ohio's state-assisted university system: Kent State University,…

The purpose to be accomplished by study abroad is the education of society through the improvement of the educational opportunities for librarians who directly influence libraries in the social order. A year's study abroad would be a means of (1) introducing the treatment of other cultures which is needed for increased understanding of human…

To provide an opportunity for discussion of the educational needs of library personnel in the prairie provinces, a Workshop on Library Education was held in Edmonton on March 14, 1970. Approximately two hundred registrants representing all three prairie provinces participated. The papers presented are: (1) Issues, Decisions and Continuing Debate:…

The Sir Evelyn Wrench Travelling Fellowship for Librarians 1969 was awarded to Antonia J. Bunch. In this personal account of her one month tour of the United States, the author reviews her impressions of the twenty-one hospital and health science libraries she visited. (MM)

The first of this set of two papers discusses the administration and activities of the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress. The function of the Division is to safeguard, help acquire, classify and catalog, and make useful the collections of manuscripts in its possessions. To accomplish this the Division maintains a reading room and…

The quality of library service in biomedical institutions ultimately depends upon basic unit librarians. Although the hierarchy is necessary, it can only have as much real authority and cooperation as institutions vest in it by their degree of understanding and sense of personal worth. Vital to this is the local peer groups, which serves two basic…

Suggestions for the Library Education Evaluation, Licensing, and Accreditation Program were adapted from documents prepared by the American Library Association and other accrediting groups as well as from policies and procedures already being used. The Tehran Book Processing Centre executive committee approved this set of standards in the Spring,…

The Institute involved thirty-one participants (twenty-one working librarians and ten students) in a two-semester program, beginning in August, 1971 and ending in May, 1972. The program consisted of a four-day pre-session of cross-cultural training, thirty full-day sessions of lecture and discussion, and a two-day post-session of cross-cultural…

The papers presented at a one day workshop on the aspects of comparative librarianship are presented in this volume. The topics discussed are: (1) Methods and Evidence in Comparative Studies; (2) Social Change and Library Development; (3) Library Development in Latin America, a Scalogram; (4) Cross-Cultural Aspects of Assistance to Developing…

The eleven papers of which this proceedings is composed are separated into the five sessions of the symposium. Session I contains one paper concerned with the state-of-the-art which gives a definition and overview of information science education. The three papers in the second session, theoretical approaches, are addressed to the question of what…

The office of the Minister of Education of New Zealand appointed a working party in May 1969 and charged it with investigating and reporting upon the status of education for librarianship. The study encompasses: (1) existing educational programs, (2) the different kinds of library and their need for qualified staff, (3) present staffing and…