The Medical Library Association's (MLA) guide for developing continuing education courses for librarians contains three main parts: a checklist, the text, and appendixes. The checklist provides questions to be considered in determining the scope of the course, designing learning activities, choosing methods and techniques, evaluating instruction,…

In its annual report, the Commission reviews its activites and summarizes its official program document: "Toward a National Program for Library and Information Services: Goals for Action." The development of the Continuing Library Education Network and Exchange and progress toward the White House Conference on Library and Information…

Programed materials for library education created between 1960 and 1974 are identified. Material included must be some kind of self-paced instructional sequence concerned with library education. Therefore, the scope of the bibliography includes as many aspects of librarianship as there are programed materials to teach it. The materials listed…

In 1974, the Southwestern Library Association (SWLA) with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities undertook a project to develop humanities programs to be implemented in local libraries. An institute was designed to train participating librarians in techniques for designing library programs incorporating themes from the humanities…

The Government Documents Round Table of the American Library Association provides a syllabus for teaching government documents courses. Developed from syllabi gathered from various library schools, the document includes course objectives, a course outline, and brief explanatory passages and charts. However, the bulk of the volume is bibliographic,…

This self-contained Institute was designed to provide elementary and high school librarians from disadvantaged areas, whether inner-city or rural, with an opportunity to study current practices and to develop solutions for operating their libraries as media centers, working with their community, and cooperating with existing public libraries. The…

The Educational Media Technician program at Burlington County College, Pemberton, New Jersey, ended its first year of operation August 31, 1973. The program had two main objectives: (1) to train and place students in jobs as paraprofessionals in libraries and media centers, (2) to train corrections institution inmates and parolees in library or…

Job roles of preprofessional personnel in Federal libraries in the Washington, D.C. area were studied in March and April of 1973. A literature review showed library technicians to be increasingly important to libraries. Indepth interviews were conducted at 15 libraries concerning staff composition, job descriptions, and educational requirements.…

Five separate articles summarize library education at the graduate, undergraduate, and technical assistant levels in the United States and library education in Canada and other parts of North America. Statistical tables are included within the explanatory essays. Over 30 pages of statistical tables give information on specific institutions. The…

In the first section four articles illustrate the basic concepts of the role of the library in college instruction. The library-college movement is discussed; Swarthmore College's "Teaching Library" in particular is examined. The second section contains four articles about actively established programs in library instruction. Following…

The papers presented at the first Canadian conference on information science are presented in this volume. Six presentations were given under the general topic of research: Research into Privacy and Data Banks, Communications Knowledge Software Industry for Canada, Census Data Access and Statistical Information Management, Communication System…

This report includes the three speeches and panel discussion that formed the substantive content of this conference. One speech concerns the functions of the library technical assistant in terms of current and future trends in library operations. The systems approach and new technologies are regarded as factors pushing libraries in the direction…

The purpose of this paper is to recommend guidelines for the development of a special collection of materials to support a fifth year master's program in Librarianship. Reasons for the desirability of establishing a separate library school library are stated and some of the factors to consider in the initial and continuing development of the…

An historical account of the apathy, neglect and mishandling of the archival papers of the State of North Carolina is given and the development of a truly archival agency is described. The subject of the second paper in this series of three papers is the relationship of archives to active record offices in North Carolina. It examines the State's…

The successful development of documentation and library services depends on the availability of sufficient qualified personnel. Unesco has therefore given high priority in its program to the question of professional training and will assist its member states in their efforts to train sufficient numbers of documentalists and librarians. To this…