Assesses the effect of the communications technology revolution on library and information specialists and the environment for the delivery of library services. Four functions affecting the library and information environment--management, communications, instruction, and publication--are noted. (EJS)

Details how a manual, nonautomated adaptation of Vernon E. Palmour's study on interlibrary loan costs, characteristics, and magnitude was designed and implemented to show interlibrary loan costs at the University of Oklahoma. Five references are cited. (FM)

Discusses several collections of poetry that children enjoy. (HTH)

A historical approach to the future of the book in the academic library postulates continuity with the past and breaks with tradition. Distinguishing between cumulative and noncumulative knowledge and basic and applied research, this article concludes that knowledge in certain disciplines is still best communicated by books. (Nine references).…

Presents a survey designed to find out the status of research materials in the field of Baltic studies. Deals primarily with such reference tools as bibliographies, catalogs, indexes, encyclopedias, dictionaries, and such sources as critical editions, collections of documents, media information, statistical information, and others. (Executive…

Discusses the effectiveness of using author-supplied indexing to increase subject control in information retrieval, and describes a study which compared author indexing for articles published in "American Mathematical Society" journals to indexing of the same articles by an editor of "Mathematical Reviews." Nine references are…

Describes a library exercise for journalism students designed to engage them in using library reference books. (HOD)

Indicates various kinds of graduate information science programs available at 36 universities and their addresses and phone numbers. The booklet from which this material was taken also identifies additional programs and other ASIS publications, and its availability is given. (RBF)

A variety of issues are considered in a discussion of faculty-librarian relationships: traditional training and characteristics of college librarians, faculty involvement in policymaking and library practice, the library needs of scholars, stereotypes and individual personality differences, and faculty status for librarians. (MSE)

This description of a program which enables a map library to augment its staff with volunteers from other departments includes objectives for the map assistants, the map librarian, and the institution; qualities that are looked for in participants; and problem-solving reading/discussion exercises designed to increase participants' skills. (JD)

Drew University's library is being expanded and renovated to more than double its facilities. The media resource center will include a television studio. (Author/MLF)

Provides a sampling of several authors' points of view regarding the right of authors to remuneration for library lending. Many of the 19 references cited are letters to the author. (CHC)

Describes a program designed to familiarize students with library research methods. (FL)

Discusses the necessity for conceptual frameworks as organizers of the content of bibliographic instruction, argues that such frameworks provide a necessary basis for generalizable and meaningful learning, and reviews seven conceptual frameworks for use in bibliographic instruction. Twenty-one references are listed. (RAA)

Appraises the effect of the Jarvis-Gann Proposition 13 for the reduction of real property taxes, on California libraries in general and on young adult services in particular. Statistics are provided that document the cutback in library services to children and young adults. (RAA)