The events and trends in the library world which have made news in the past year. Comments especially on issues of intellectual freedom and insurgent groups within library associations. (Editor/JS)

The basic need in library education for the next decade will be expansion at every level: technician, undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education, as well as faculty and scholarship aid. (JS)

Presented is an international, informal survey of postgraduate courses in classification and cataloging. (27 references) (SJ)

The six-year training program has provided some success in recruiting well-qualified graduate students with scientific and technical backgrounds who can work with scientists in collecting, digesting, and synthesizing information in the sciences. (MM)

Emphasizes the need for teachers and librarians to improve their training in order that they may be better equipped to respond to new developments in their work. They should also discover the similarity in the demands made on them and try to coordinate their activities more effectively. (MF)

Librarians can now perform functions justifying full academic status by providing crucially needed bibliographic and information services. Obstacles of bureaucratic orientation and lack of quality library education must be overcome. (JS)

Education for academic librarians must turn to subject specialization and preparation for meeting the faculty standards. Opportunities for continuing education must be provided. (JS)

This paper, a lecture to library school students, presents in detail four elements that make a special library special," as background for a discussion of suggested approaches to follow in managing a special library. (Author/AB)

Library schools must train young adult librarians toward commitment to relevant book selection. (AB)

The focus of the Library Education Experimental Project (LEEP) at Syracuse University has been the development of a computer based laboratory for library science students to use in class assignments and for independent projects, with MARC tapes forming the data base. Data bases, programs, and seven different class assignments are described and…

Traces the major developments in libraries from ancient times and concludes that another major development is overdue--the establishment of an organized body of scientific principles as a foundation for the study of librarianship as an intellectual discipline at first-degree level, for the development of pure and applied research, and for the…

"We of an earlier generation must constantly remind ourselves that just as the young rebels of our day are the Establishment now, so those who today strike at the pillars of society must themselves support the structure tomorrow. (Author)