The elimination of routine and repetitive tasks by computer arrangement and display can result in clear and identifiable time-savings of library personnel. (Author/PF)

A successful experiment was designed to put administrative matters in the hands of non-librarians in order to free librarians for collection development, instruction of students, and involvement with faculty in other university programs. (LS)

This bibliography of the holdings of the Lighter-Than-Air Society includes books, serials, manuscripts, and photographs acquired by gift and purchase. Information on Lighter-Than-Air craft is contained in technical treatises, scholarly histories, biographies, popular narratives and tales of adventure in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish,…

Compiled from information supplied by directors of the systems and State departments or agencies administering library programs, this directory provides listings that are current through November 1, 1978. The listings are arranged regionally and alphabetically by the names of the specific reference and research library resources systems to which…

Services provided by the library at Herlev Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark, are discussed, including patient and personnel lending, exhibitions, films, nursing school library, medical library, and music lending. (RAO)

Bibliographic citations and annotations are provided for 54 publications related to public library-school library cooperation; the period covered is May 1972 to January 1978. (JD)

This report outlines planning activities of the Pahlavi National Library in Iran. Steps taken in the planning process include: proposal, recruitment of consultants and advisors, preparation of background papers, seminar on present conditions and beginning planning, preparation of position papers by consultants, and review. Descriptions are…

This report presents information on the administrative organization of library instruction programs for university undergraduates in the United States and England. Particular attention was paid to libraries with professionals designated as "library instruction librarians." Four patterns of organization were found; broad staff involvement…

The intention of this essay is to serve as a guide to the literature treating the historical development of the American public library. It also provides a selective analysis of the literature dealing with the role of the public library. An extensive selected bibliography is included along with an appendix which is a short critical essay on the…

A survey is made of the more important technological and managerial problems in the planning of university library services and recommendations are made for a positive program of innovation and development. Two approaches are explored in considerable detail. The first is the use of operations research models of the acquisition and storage…