A study was made to determine the usefulness of library education as seen by 40 practicing academic, special, and public librarians in the southern San Francisco Bay Area (California). Interview questions were designed to discover librarians' positions and backgrounds; the usefulness of courses they took in library schools; their opinions on field…

The Leadership Training Institute at the School of Library Science, Florida State University, has compiled a guide for evaluating programs in library leadership training. There are chapters on the qualifications of a training director; the evaluation process; context evaluation, which includes a statement of the problem, objectives, and criteria;…

This report describes the results of a project to conduct research on and to develop instructional materials for use in on-the-job training of professional and non-professional library personnel in scientific and technical libraries. The project began on June 28, 1967 and was completed on May 15, 1969. This report reviews previous research,…

In its 1973-74 year the Leadership Training Institute (LTI) program focused on training needs in the areas of planning, evaluation, general management, and communications. The LTI team worked with directors and staffs of Title II-B institutions to increase librarians' skills in service to isolated communities, adults, and community colleges.…

A collection of original essays, case studies, and research reports is presented on the problems, hopes, and techniques of instructing library users and nonusers, from the kindergartener to the postschool adult, in the effective use of libraries and their resources. First there is a comprehensive overview of the research to date on library user…

This annotated bibliography includes selected items on public, school, university, and special music libraries and librarianship 1937 - 1973. Publications are primarily in the English language, with a few in French. Coverage extends to music library administration, acquisition of materials (including musical editions, performance parts,…

The purpose of the 1971 Higher Education Act (HEA) Institute for Training in Librarianship and Drug Education was to train teams of librarians and media specialists from academic and school libraries to develop comprehensive drug education packages made up of both commercially available materials and locally produced learning aids designed to meet…

Twenty-five educators participated in a two-week program to study the roles for library technical assistants and the program for their education. Speakers offered introductory and background presentations on the following topics: library education and manpower policy, the qualifications of library technical assistants for various types of…

This selective review of the library science literature of the five-year period 1965-1969 aims to provide library science teachers and libraries with a checklist of material pinpointing the more significant works in each major area. The selection has been limited to 150 works from various parts of the world in order to keep the review within…

A library-oriented, concentrated course in the use of computers in libraries is a definite need in the profession. Librarians can learn the use of computers even though they have no background in data processing. The profession is also in need of a course syllabus which can be used either in a formal college course or in an in-service training…

The course discussed in Part I: Library Science 301, is concerned with the selection and utilization of Negro resource materials. The course is geared to the mind of the librarian as reader, the technician who shares the interest in theme, plot, and character analysis of the issue-oriented college student pursuing the leads of an assignment or…

International exchange programs, of professionally qualified librarians or those nearing professional status, should be mutually beneficial. To dispense the planning efforts for such exchanges, it is necessary to establish a Post-Professional Study Centre (PSC). The PSC would: pool the requirements of many different libraries, match applications…

The Institute was designed to educate twenty superior college graduates in the fundamentals of librarianship and the theory and practice of archival work. Besides the core curriculum in Librarianship, four especially designed courses in archival work were given. The Seminar on History, Development, and Character, of Archives discussed the…

The first three units of this twelve unit combination workbook and instruction manual which is designed for non-professional library personnel presents an introduction to basic reference works and with bibliographic tools. The first unit which introduces reference tools, discusses what reference work includes and the how to use such reference…

The reference tools discussed in these two units of the instructional package (other units are: LI004051 and LI004053 through 004055) are: General Technical Encyclopedias and Engineering Handbooks. The unit concerned with encyclopedias summarizes the basic features of a good encyclopedia and gives some general procedures which are helpful in…