This article serves as an introduction to the Classroom Teaching'' section of the journal and, as such, gives an overview of the articles included in the section. (3 references) (NH)

The emphasis of this article aimed at helping the librarian in the classroom is on preparation. To be prepared to teach, the librarian must blend the information gained from a faculty interview with insights gleaned from daily contact with students. (Author/NH)

The observations about the nature of learning and the role of the teacher in furthering or hindering students' efforts to accomplish it which are expressed in this article may cause both novice and old hand to re-examine their understandings of the teaching-learning process. (11 references) (Author/NH)

Combing the virtues of approval plans with those of the FASTCAT, new books in the Macalester College Library reach the borrower, on an average, one year sooner than they do at a neighboring college of the same size. (2 references) (Author/NH)

The fifteen years of operation of the program are reviewed and evaluated. (NH)

Urban main libraries must provide services and collections for very diverse users. (25 references) (SJ)

The High John Library experience is reviewed including its areas of success and failure as well as some suggestions about what should be done differently should such a project be again undertaken. (NH)

Described is the Westward Ho summer reading program sponsored by the Alabama Public Library Service. (SJ)

The threat from school libraries coupled with misdirected publicity efforts has created the need for a massive nationwide public relations and advertising campaign whose main appeal should be to nonusers. (Author/NH)

The paper describes the attempts made in recent years to determine the essential functions of a national library. It considers these functions in relation to the recommendations of the Dainton Committee and the proposals in the White Paper on the British Library. (14 references) (Author/MM)

Described in this article are the trends of library work with young people during the restrictive war years, and the succeeding period of austerity, to the palmier years of the 1950s. (29 references) (Author/MM)

This brief introduction sets the stage for this issue's topic of the libraries' role in social problems. (MF)