After a brief discussion of considerations in book selection, the author suggests some new and classic titles in children's literature that may be useful in values education. Publisher, cost and grade level are listed for each recent title. (SJL)

No significant differences were found between the Bem Sex-Role Inventory scores of library science students enrolled at a large university in the western United States and those of a normative group provided by the author of the inventory. (Author)

Reports a method of studying subject relatedness among university faculty members based on the degree to which their publications--books, journal articles, advance research reports, and other forms--concur in Dewey Decimal Classification numbers. Use of this technique to study publications of a midwestern state university's faculty are described.…

Urges librarians involved in library user instruction to meet the challenges preented by the growing role of computers in bibliographic systems. (FM)

Reviews various evaluation techniques used on different campuses to measure the effectiveness of library instruction programs. (FM)

Discusses illiteracy in Canada and describes the steps that have been taken to improve this problem at the national, provincial, and local levels. (CHC)

Provides step-by-step instructions for ordering documents online through DIALOG and ORBIT, including some helpful hints. Tables show database or independent document suppliers; list ordering commands, with examples; and explain optional commands, for the two retrieval systems. (SW)

Describes a survey of 18 library schools conducted to determine if faculty are familiar with audiovisual materials available from the National Audiovisual Center, and how these materials are rated in quality. Results indicate that there is a need for more descriptive and evaluative information to reach library educators. (BK)

Presents a review, an analysis, and a projection of the use of machine-readable databases, including online search and support services, and emphasizes the application of bibliographic databases for special libraries. More than 40 references are cited. (FM)

Summarizes responses given by representatives of the four major bibliographic utilities (OCLC, RLIN, UTLAS, WLN) to 26 questions formulated to gather information for special librarians evaluating those utilities. An appendix provides specific data for each system, including address, affiliation, interviewer, and interviewees. (FM)

Describes a one-year program at Austin Peay State University to train paraprofessional library technicians. Curriculum consists of courses in typing, business communications, accounting, and office procedures. A supervised internship in a local library setting culminates the training. (CT)

Discussion of English language journals of librarianship of most interest to North Americans includes publications from the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, South Africa, and West Africa, as well as from UNESCO, IFLA, and Scandinavia. Some indexes, other secondary publications, and monographs are also discussed. (RAA)

Research dealing with reading interests, habits, and problems of the older reader has been primarily a tangential result of surveys concerned with reading activities of the general population. The studies reviewed were selected to give an overview of existing research with suggestions for future investigation. (Author)

Criticizes the Library of Congress' manner of representing the United States in international attempts to develop universal bibliographic control. Direct involvement by American libraries in international activities is urged, in order that actions taken be decided upon in a democratic fashion. (SW)

Summarizes the two recent studies of interest to the library community: (1) an A. D. Little analysis of past and present systems for dissemination of scientific technical information, and (2) Fritz Machlup's economic profile of key disseminators of scholarly, scientific, and intellectual knowledge. (FM)