The National Commission on Libraries and Information Science's (NCLIS) nationwide information program is based in part on the sharing of resources. The United States Book Exchange (USBE) and its existing services may have a role in this program, since the USBE's major function is the preservation and maximum utilization of publications through…

A revision of a bibliography published in 1970, this bibliography cites approximately 340 books, periodical articles, and newspapers found in the Mexican American Materials Collection at the University of Texas at El Paso. The materials, published between 1900 and 1971, are arranged alphabetically by author or title and are numbered sequentially.…

A guide for obtaining government documents at Booth Library, Eastern Illinois University, this document describes a step-by-step procedure for using a Federal depository collection. Illustrations are provided from the "Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications" author index, title index, and subject index. Item numbers are…

This project is concerned with public, school, and academic library services for the non-institutionalized handicapped of Indiana. Some of the most important questions which are discussed are the following: Who are the handicapped who are unable to use regular library materials and services? What level of library services is presently available to…

A simple normative theory applicable to public library services was developed as a tool to aid libraries in answering the question: which books should be bought by the library? Although developed for normative purposes, the theory generates testable predictions. It is relevant to measuring benefits from services which are provided publicly because…

The search for Afro-American books was launched to find books which would give black children a sense of dignity and self-respect for their heritage and which would help white children appreciate their fellow Americans. The shortage of such books is discussed. Criteria is given for selecting and for evaluating children's books, especially in…

The Connecticut Valley Libraries (CONVAL) is a consortium formed by the librarians of seven New England liberal arts colleges in order to use cooperative measures to make better use of library resources in the face of rising costs of materials and the increasing amount of materials needed in college libraries. A survey indicated strengths of the…

This essay reports on several major features of black academic libraries: collections, operating expenditures, staff, and salaries. Eighty-five black, four-year, degree-conferring institutions were queried, and fifty-one questionnaires were returned. The results are categorized in terms of type of support of the institutions. In the fifty-one…

This study was conducted between May 1968 - June 1969 to investigate the individual and differing book ordering procedures, book ordering stationery, and book servicing requirements by public library systems of the United Kingdom. To help aid the standardization of forms, a questionnaire was sent to one-third of all public libraries in the United…

There is ample evidence today that acidity resulting from manufacturing processes is the principal cause of paper deterioration. The significance of this discovery is that purchasers can avoid paper manufactured in such a way as to be auto-destructive. This investigation explores the collective use of color spot tests to distinguish stable from…

Three sets of library arrangement guidelines are given for the small-school teacher. These guidelines relate to (1) order and receipt of materials, (2) classification and cataloging, and (3) care and repair of books. Details are given for establishing the card catalog, arranging books according to Dewey Classification, and organizing non-book…

The Wisconsin Association of School Librarians has produced a manual for standardized processing of all nonprint media, based on two principles: (1) the media should be centralized, organized, and administered for maximum access; and (2) content is more important than form. Definitions, cataloging, processing, housing, circulation, and care are…

With over 250 environment-related periodicals available to libraries in 1973, it seems imperative to provide a selective guide which will assist the small or medium-sized library in developing a reasonable cross-section of the great variety of periodicals in the field. The following list of seventy publications has been selected with such an…

Listed in this bibliography are 136 resource materials in the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) Library. The books, periodical articles, magazines, newspapers, and audio-visual materials are about Chicanos. Entries are arranged alphabetically by the author's or editor's name or by title when there is no author. General bibliographic…

Approximately 600 books and monographs, 350 journal articles, and 70 ERIC and Government documents published between 1877 and 1970 are cited in this bibliography. The materials listed comprise a collection at the University of Houston Library dealing with the history, culture, attitudes, education, and socioeconomic status of the Chicano. (JH)