The success of academic librarians depends on their ability to escape a working pattern of routine and reaction and to master the professional role--to be aware of the library's dynamic environment, to exercise individual initiative, and to willingly engage in critical analysis and evaluation of their and their library's performance. (Author)

Discusses the need for faculty development programs in library schools and examines some aspects of instructional development, microteaching, curriculum development, organizational development, and personal development as components in formulating such programs. (FM)

Outlines and illustrates the principles underlying the training of librarians in providing services to ethnic groups, discussing library education policies, the ethnic librarian, the language barrier, and course design. Twenty references are cited. (FM)

Outlines the development of public library policies and relationships with local government. Discussed are the prototype library, the imbalance of funding between large and small libraries, lack of theory in library education, and implications of the collectivist theory. The need for strong leadership and evaluation of library programs is…

Sketches a new educational framework for library science students to integrate library science into the field of information science and discusses six areas of future development. Major problems for the new information environment are information imbalance, availability of information, information literacy, and the need to maintain a human aspect.…

Outlines the costs for self-instructional packs consisting of files of offprints, original materials, and small publications at a university library. Full details of the assumptions and the basis of the cost analysis are included, based on a limited amount of literature available (references are included) and additional proposals. (Author/JEG)

A "home movie" videotape developed at California State University, Los Angeles, has provided a successful approach to the problem of orienting librarians to the operation and usefulness of the newest in media. (MK)

Describes the philosophy, objectives, services, and experimental research of the Abadina Media Resource Center, which provides library services, materials, and education to elementary school students and provides research and training facilities for Nigerian teachers and school librarians. (Author/CWM)

Describes the University of Florida's course, Automated Information Sources and Services, and presents the results of a survey of 46 accredited library schools which indicate that instruction provided in online searching is widespread and growing, but that great diversity exists among library schools in instructional goals and objectives. (CWM)

Orientation and training of staff for information and referral (I&R) work in libraries must be based on a clear understanding of the following: 1) what I&R is as a set of tasks; 2) what knowledge, skills, and resources are needed to perform those tasks; 3) to what degree the needed knowledge, skills, and resources are already possessed by the…

Reviews public library services in the People's Republic of China since 1949. Describes the Shanghai Library, the second largest library in China; the Shanghai system's three level network (municipal, district or county, and street or town) of public libraries which provides for resource sharing, librarian training, professional activities, and…

Though education for librarianship is contentious, the literature reveals a renewed emphasis on the value of practicum components. This article examines fieldwork in library education at Queensland University of Technology in Australia, highlighting the rationale for fieldwork, its aims and objectives, problems of implementation, benefits, and…

Discusses meeting the needs of learners in United Kingdom libraries. Topics include the role of the public library; barriers to learning; implications for libraries; motivation to learn; motivating learners in libraries; meeting users' learning needs; and training for librarians. (LRW)

Lacking a regional library school in the 1930s, librarians of the Maritime Library Institute (MLI) did not view themselves as inferior to the "trained librarians" of central Canada, but crafted a professional identity through mutual support and shared expertise. This essay discusses creation of the MLI; transforming the Maritime Library…

Addresses issues raised by the Special Libraries Association's (SLA) 1988 Policy Statement of Graduate Education regarding program length, accreditation procedures, education for other branches of librarianship, and models of the ideal library curriculum. Several additions to the SLA statement are suggested, and a copy of the statement is…