Steps for acquisition of necessary skills for expertise in law librarianship are described and the role of the Law Library of Congress in relationship to the responsibility of law libraries is outlined. (AB)

A brief account of the design and implementation of the first full-time one-year post-graduate course in science information work in Israel is presented. (Author/AB)

A young librarian encounters the public school bureaucracy in her involvements with the student and social crisis of 1969-1970. (Author)

The study has two purposes: (1) to provide a description of selected socio-economic variables characterizing the present doctoral population and (2) to provide a subjective evaluation of the library education programs by those people who are presumably the most knowledgeable people in the profession. (Author/NH)

Replicating to a high degree the results of the Olsgaard profile of authorship characteristics in academic library journals, this study analyzed five journals of interest to special librarians to determine gender, geographic location, and occupation of author contributors. Results indicate that women are consistently underrepresented in the…

Provides a brief history of the life of Melvil Dewey, describing his many accomplishments in several diversified areas. Fourteen references are listed. (CHC)

Describes the state of the art of librarianship in Bangladesh. A brief history of library education in that country is given, along with an extensive description of the library science program at the University of Dacca. (LLS)

Indicates that Bradford's law may be applied with a relatively high degree of confidence to citations in library science periodicals. The study tests verbal and graphical formulations of the law using 5,628 citations to journal literature referenced in College and Research Libraries and Special Libraries between 1940 and 1974. (RAA)

The history of the development of research, particularly under Dr. M.F. Lynch, at Sheffield University in Britain is followed by a general review of the research areas in both information science and library science. (MBR)

Critiques and advances an understanding for a method of establishing ethos-- promoting one's field by distinguishing it from work associated with women. Provides some reasons why this might have been important to women librarians and argues how this process applies to particular exigencies in the contemporary fields of library science and of…

Analyzes subject trends from 1975-84 in nine influential journals in library and information science. Thirty-two subjects which constitute 89 percent of the subjects published are discussed under five categories according to their distribution characteristics: (1) boom topics; (2) declining topics; (3) roller coaster issues; (4) stable subjects;…

This paper traces librarianship's notions of intellectual freedom to a widely analyzed concept in law and political science known as the marketplace of ideas. A stewardship orientation in librarianship is described, changes in the profession are examined, emotional factors and democratic values are discussed, and self-actualization is considered.…

Analyzes literature on information overload research in library studies using explication, physical analysis, and citation patterns. Makes cross-discipline comparisons with consumer science and psychology/psychiatry. Contains 93 references. (PEN)