In addition to the planning committee list, the program schedule, and summary of the results of the Institute evaluation questionnaire, the proceedings of the study institute on improving library services in New York State for handicapped children presents manuscripts of seven presentations prepared from the taped sessions. Included are a…

A modular computer program for subject access to multiple fixed-vocabulary bibliographic data bases has been developed. It is written in PL/I and Assembler Language for operation on the IBM 360 Model 91 computer at the University of California, Los Angeles, and can run on a computer as small as an IBM 360 Model 50. The program (MULFSCH) described…

Early design activities at the Institute of Library Research (ILR) are described in this part of the center for Information Services (CIS) project. Both library aspects and computer aspects of information services from data bases are covered. The appendices present various "read routines" and an inventory of programs written or utilized…

If citations are concentrated on a relatively small number of articles within individual journals as well as between different journals, selections of key articles can be published that should satisfy a high percentage of library demand for back runs at low purchase cost. To test this hypothesis, a test was carried out on self-citations in three…

In order to provide guidance to schools and school systems which are developing and improving their media programs, the Maryland State Department of Education has compiled a set of criteria based on the standards of the American Library Association and the National Education Association. The School Media Program in the Maryland State Department of…

Decision flowcharts are efficient and effective training tools for librarians and library employees below the administrative level. In addition, the cost of training programs is reduced by the use of flowcharts. Training staff in the performance of routine procedures is particularly suited to the use o f decision flowcharts. The two types of…

The Third Cranfield Conference on Mechanised Information Storage and Retrieval Systems was held on 20-23 July 1971 in Cranfield, England. The report describes a number of the key papers presented at this conference. (Author)

More than 600 documents published between 1893 and 1970 are cited in this bibliography on American Indians. The bibliography contains that portion of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) library collection that is written about, for, and by American Indians. Many of the citations include annotations. All publications listed are available for…

The complete comprehension of this paper requires a firm grasp of both mathematical demography and FORTRAN programming. The paper aims at the establishment of a language with which complex demographic manipulations can be briefly expressed in a form intelligible both to demographic analysts and to computers. The Demographic Computer Library (DCL)…

The American Medical Association and the American Library Association are comparatively studied in this essay which emphasizes organizational structure. The chief characteristics of professional associations are briefly reviewed and the three primary problem areas relating to organizational structure--participation of the membership, role of the…

THE EFFECTIVE USE OF FLEXIBLE SCHEDULING, INSTRUCTIONAL AIDS, AND MODERN TECHNOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES IN SMALL SCHOOL SYSTEMS IS IMPERATIVE IF THE INDIVIDUAL STUDENT NEEDS ARE TO BE MET. FLEXIBLE SCHEDULING AND THE USE OF CORRESPONDENCE COURSES MAXIMIZE OPPORTUNITIES IN A LIMITED CURRICULUM. THE USE OF AN AMPLIFIED TELEPHONE IN A CLASSROOM IS…

This meeting was designed to serve as an up-to-date learning resource for those involved in library education and as a centralized medium for the demonstration of projects and activities. Included in the report are discussions on (1) Principles of Adult Education Programming, (2) Needs Assessment Techniques, (3) Designing Education Plans for…

This article provided an account of the organization of cultural activities in the city of Bologna, Italy. It stressed the activities' significance in terms of the city's cultural policy by attempting to show obstacles encountered and efforts made to overcome them. (Author/RK)

Ineffective library school recruiting has contributed to inadequate library service to the Spanish-speaking citizen. (Author)

Depending on various factors prevailing in different countries, central transmission in collective consignments is not always the most economic method of dispatch of exchange materials, and particularly in the case of periodicals, not always satisfactory. (Author)