The primary goal of the Collection Development Program is to establish a well-balanced collection which will meet the needs of academic programs and satisfy the instructional needs of the academic community. In meeting the changing educational needs of students, faculty, and researchers, bibliographers must consider the evolving curriculum and the…

Librarians may most effectively promote library legislation needed to further the goals of libraries and library service through legislative lobbying activities. The legal basis for library legislation exists in the undisputed fact that libraries are agencies of learning and therefore merit the same legislative attention as schools. The most basic…

This discussion of the role of sound recordings--phonodiscs, tape cassettes and cartridges--in public and university libraries provides a brief review of types of collections and criteria for choosing materials, the variety of uses patrons may make of such collections, selection tools and patron input for collection building, in-house listening…

Three conference papers on the formulation of collection development policies are presented in this report: (1) Richard W. Blood, Assistant Professor and Social Sciences Bibliographer, General Libraries, University of Houston, discusses both the theoretical considerations behind an academic library's decision to write such a policy and the…

This report by the Committee on Library Orientation at the University of Virginia reviews the need for a unified, well designed sign system to assist users of the university libraries and discusses the categories and functions of such signs as identified in the relevant literature. A discussion of the current situation at the university and…

Although this handbook is addressed primarily to the hopital administrator, it contains material of interest to the librarian as well. Basic requirements for providing good library services to hospital staff are identified as: (1) well chosen and well trained manpower; (2) a current collection of information materials; and (3) appropriate space in…

A proposal for a library project for mentally and physically handicapped persons at Custer State Hospital includes a listening library for the residents of the hospital with a cassette player in each resident's room. Tape storage would be at the nurse's station on each floor, and the charge nurse on that floor would be responsible for the tapes.…

This policy reflects developmental patterns governing the evolution of collections in the University of Kansas Libraries. Policy statements, written by bibliographers, are provided for 54 subject areas: African studies; anthropology; applied English; architecture and urban design; art; astronomy and physics; biological sciences; business…

AS THE IMAGE OF THE JUNIOR COLLEGE LIBRARY HAS CHANGED FROM THAT OF A BOOK DEPOSITORY TO THAT OF AN ACTIVE LEARNING RESOURCE CENTER, THE NEED FOR STUDENT ORIENTATION TO ITS EFFECTIVE USE HAS INCREASED. PROGRAMS AT EIGHT COLLEGES ILLUSTRATE THE VARIATION IN SUCH PROGRAMS--(1) STEPHENS COLLEGE HAS FOUR INSTRUCTIONAL SESSIONS TO PROVIDE ORIENTATION…

Indices of the impact of public libraries on their municipalities are made by measuring the relationship of registrants against the municipal populations. Three indices based on registrants in households are developed. The methodology is based on "pairs" of libraries exhibiting two comparable characteristics--the population served and the per…

The purpose of the directory is to publicize innovative library activities in post secondary educational institutions. To compile the directory, a report form and cover letter were sent to 119 college libraries and 12 library schools. A total of 101 reports of individual programs were received with 75 libraries and five library schools responding…

The Committee on Manuscripts Collections of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section prepared five statements on recurring problems which plague librarians and archivists. The topics discussed are appraisal of items donated to a library for tax purposes, obtaining legal title to gift materials, the responsibility of a library to make valuable…

This survey is a description of the cataloging in publication (CIP) programs presently operational in four countries--the United States, USSR, Brazil, and Australia--and isolates in each of these national experiences the ingredients for success. Both the description of procedures and the recognition of factors which rendered the publishing climate…

This outline, which briefly describes the American system of education with major emphasis on professional library education, was designed for the foreign student interested in pursuing a graduate degree in library science. Specific topics include the A.L.A. accreditation system for library schools, the semester system, application and admission…

The four primary goals of these cost and funding studies are described: (1) to determine representative costs of present library services without network support; (2) to estimate future costs of library services at various levels of proposed network support; (3) to evaluate and compare the impact of a network upon costs of library services; and…