Three sets of library arrangement guidelines are given for the small-school teacher. These guidelines relate to (1) order and receipt of materials, (2) classification and cataloging, and (3) care and repair of books. Details are given for establishing the card catalog, arranging books according to Dewey Classification, and organizing non-book…

The Wisconsin Association of School Librarians has produced a manual for standardized processing of all nonprint media, based on two principles: (1) the media should be centralized, organized, and administered for maximum access; and (2) content is more important than form. Definitions, cataloging, processing, housing, circulation, and care are…

With over 250 environment-related periodicals available to libraries in 1973, it seems imperative to provide a selective guide which will assist the small or medium-sized library in developing a reasonable cross-section of the great variety of periodicals in the field. The following list of seventy publications has been selected with such an…

Listed in this bibliography are 136 resource materials in the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) Library. The books, periodical articles, magazines, newspapers, and audio-visual materials are about Chicanos. Entries are arranged alphabetically by the author's or editor's name or by title when there is no author. General bibliographic…

Approximately 600 books and monographs, 350 journal articles, and 70 ERIC and Government documents published between 1877 and 1970 are cited in this bibliography. The materials listed comprise a collection at the University of Houston Library dealing with the history, culture, attitudes, education, and socioeconomic status of the Chicano. (JH)

The resolutions of the 15th Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM) cover the following topics: (1) Acquisitions Matters; (2) Reproduction of Library Materials and Computer Technology; (3) Archives and Manuscripts; (4) Bibliographic Matters; (5) Library Organization, Personnel and Research; (6) SALALM Organizational…

Volume 1 of the 15th Seminar on Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials contains: (1) Summary Reports for Sessions 1 through 6; (2) Program of the 15th Seminar; (3) Resolutions of the 15th Seminar; (4) Participants in the 15th Seminar; (5) Seminar Committees, 1970-1971; (6) List of Working Papers; (7) Working paper number one -- Progress…

Volume 2 contains 13 working papers from the 15th Seminar on Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials. The papers are: (1) A Report on Bibliographic Activities; (2) Microfilm Projects Newsletter; (3) Role of Latin American Legal Material in the Social Science Research Library; (4) A description of sources for Legal and Social Science…

Recycling of metals and materials has as its purpose the easing of two major environmental crises. First, we re-utilize scarce and non-renewable resources. Second, solid waste disposal problems can be alleviated. Industry has long been concerned with reclaiming its own waste products, and is now beginning to respond to the need for dealing with…

A brief review of the recent years of civil dissent and conflict in the U.S. and the underground press movement is presented as an introduction to this proposal that the university library of the State University of New York at Buffalo establish a system to acquire and house alternative materials. The author, assistant reference librarian,…

Prepared by an occupational analyst of the California Analysis Field Center, this publication is intended to suggest maximum flexibility in acquiring and organizing an occupational library. This is accomplished in sections which describe the purposes of an occupational library and provide suggestions for organizing the information, acquiring…

In setting out to design a system of cataloging, or to evaluate a given system, or to apply a system in effect, it is necessary to begin with a clarification of the ends which the product of cataloging - that is, the catalog - is to serve in the library. To contribute to an understanding of these ends, the present study considers the role of the…

Although numerous outstanding research collections as well as able professional librarians exist in South and West Asia, many people find Asian libraries difficult to use. Often researchers need specialized data which is hard for them to locate in the limited time available. This paper's purpose is to provide practical suggestions for scholars…

This research project studies the reading interests of junior high school students in a city school in the metropolitan Atlanta area. Four hundred and fifty students--representative of the school population according to grade level, race, sex, and scholastic standing--were given a questionnaire reflecting their reading interests and habits.…

Those of us who communicate only in English are limited in full exposure to African literary expression. While most creative expression by black Africans is oral, much has also been written in languages foreign to those of us oriented only to English. In the following list, therefore, any efforts to be exhaustive are controlled by the…