Libraries, as well as larger information networks, are necessarily based upon the storage of information files consisting in many cases of written materials and texts such as books, serials, abstracts, manuscripts and archives. At the present stage of the "information explosion" no librarian can afford to ignore the contribution of…

The six sections in this manual are: (1) Evaluation of Standards, (2) Implementation of Standards Through Accreditation, (3) Conducting the Agency Self-Study, (4) Contents of the Agency Self-Study Report, (5) The On-Site Review and (6) Translating Study into Action. The appendix contains coding instructions for sections C and D of this guide.…

In Part I of this section of the guide, the agency is asked to set down a clear and comprehensive statement of its philosophy of service and program objectives. Part II calls for basic factual data concerning the agency and the community it serves. Part III seeks to ascertain the agency's policies with respect to certain principles adopted by the…

Fundamentally, library services should accomplish the same objectives for the blind and visually handicapped as for the sighted. There are, nevertheless, important differences arising from the need to compensate for lack of sight as well as from the conditions which blindness imposes on the means of rendering library service. By definition, blind…

Resources located in the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) Headquarters Library are inventoried in this library bulletin. Entries follow the IPPF classification scheme and are arranged by topics: (1) general office management and administration; (2) contraceptive methods; (3) family planning (general); (4) United Nations,…

Titles and prices for filmstrips with records, filmstrips, films, cassettes, film loops, disc recordings for utilization as audiovisual resources for library services for the mentally retarded are listed. A list of publishers and distributors of suitable educational and library materials is also provided. (AB)

This publication describes how the Library of Congress classification adapted for children's books by the Inglewood Public Library can also be used in the classification of children's sound recordings. One of the major features of the classification system is its applicability to various media, as it provides a method by which the same work can be…

Early in 1969, the Sacramento State College Library began a series of bibliographies designed to aid its patrons in making more effective use of existing library resources. This publication, Number 7 of that series directed specifically to areas involved in the college's developing ethnic studies programs, cites materials published between 1905…

Resources located in the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) Headquarters Library are inventoried in this library bulletin. Entries follow the IPPF classification scheme and are arranged by topics: (1) general office management and administration; (2) contraceptive methods; (3) family planning (general); (4) United Nations,…

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.…

Resources located in the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) Headquarters Library are inventoried in this library bulletin. Entries follow the IPPF classification scheme and are arranged by topics: (1) general office management and administration; (2) contraceptive methods; (3) family planning (general); (4) United Nations,…

The Russian transliteration package provides the equivalent of six units of this instructional package, but it is presented as a continuous sequence that requires a total of three to four hours of a trainee's time. It is presented in the form of a programmed text. (Other units of the instructional package are: LI004051-004054. The package is…

This booklet is both an explanation of the independent film (also known as "avant-garde" or underground film) and a catalog of Grove Press' underground films, which are available for sale or rent. The topics covered include ways the independent film differs from the commercial film, the importance of and a short history of the independent film,…

GANDALF (General Alpha Numeric Direct Access Library Facility) is an information retrieval system designed and implemented at the University of New Mexico for the purposes of retrieving abstracts from large abstract data bases, such as the ERIC system. Previous batch-process information retrieval systems for use with the ERIC data base have been…

Books for preschool through junior high age children are cited in this annotated bibliography which contains full bibliographic citations, price information, Library of Congress card number and appropriate grade level for each entry. The bibliography is divided into the following sections: (1) picture and Picture-story books; (2) stories for the…