The purpose of this publication, part of the AASL Bottom Line Series, is to provide guidance for school library media education faculty who are preparing a curriculum folio for review by representatives of AASL as part of the accreditation process conducted by the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE).

Librarianship is not a profession. Most librarians fail to meet, for want of substantive knowledge, the three measures of professional functions. Most librarians are and will be advanced technicians until library education is considerably improved. (23 references) (Author)

British library schools and their programs are discussed by two Americans who taught at the College of Librarianship-Wales during the 1971-72 academic year. British and American programs are compared. (11 references) (SM)

A library school to serve the English-speaking Caribbean has been set up with Unesco assistance at the University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica. This article examines the potential demand for librarians in the region, discusses various problems facing the profession and prospects for the future. (15 references) (Author)

Accredited library schools should operate self-contained academic libraries as experimental laboratories and learning environments where library school students can put classroom theories into actual employment prior to graduation. Dependence upon parent campus libraries to acquire, organize and circulate library school books and serials should be…

The role of library schools in educating future librarians for the use of media is discussed. (5 references) (SJ)

The six experimental programs of the School Library Manpower Project are a source of optimism in the difficult process of curriculum innovation. (6 references) (SJ)

The situation in the graduate library schools is critically reviewed. (NH)

The best way to meet the national shortage of librarians is by preparing a limited number of imaginative, well-educated professional leaders and a much larger number of thoroughly trained technicians. (Author/JS)

Report of a meeting organized by Unesco for planning school library services in Central America and Panama. Present state, functions, and organization of national school library plans, and education of school librarians, were considered. (JS)

A survey determined that only libraries of academic and business encouraged professional staff to improve their levels of competence and subject knowledge by obtaining additional qualifications. (2 references) (AB)