Cautions that present purely qualitative accreditation standards tend to deny disaccreditation as a Committee on Accreditation (ALA) alternative and to reinforce mediocrity. Standards should be revised to accept certain quantitative, structural, and procedural changes to insure quality in library school graduates. (RAA)

Summarizes the highlights of the annual business meeting of the North Central Association's Commission on Schools. Lists members of the commission's reviewing committees and outlines actions taken by the committees during 1980. Provides a roster of the schools accredited by the commission in each of 19 states. (JP)

Examines the liaisons and relationships among libraries and the elderly, and those libraries and other community agencies working for the benefit of the elderly. (FM)

The purposes, functions, and underlying policies of both rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and Title VII indicate that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission should be required to certify when it brings class action suits. Available from University of Chicago Law School, 1111 E. 60th St., Chicago, IL 60637; single issue $3.50.…

Describes group education program for adoptive parents developed by a social service agency. The program aims at assuaging the fears raised in adoptive parents by the controversy over sealed records and the adoptee's search for biological parents. (CM)

Discusses the formation and outlines the role of Vermont's Professional Development Advisory Council for teacher education programs. The duties of the Council are outlined. (SH)

Discusses the potential of the "cooperative agency management system," a new management system based on the budgeting process that has been adopted at both the Department of the Interior and the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. (Author/JG)

Marilyn John, vice-president of the Native Association of Newfoundland and Labrador discusses what the Native Association is doing for the Micmac Indians, the Micmacs' attitudes about their old cultural ways, the Micmac language, and the Micmacs' future. (NQ)

Suggestions and recommendations are offered as a basis for a beginning of career education's promotion by key groups in teacher education. (TA)

Describes the activities of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) during World War II and efforts at rapprochement between NCTE and the Modern Language Association in the 1940s. (DD)

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Smaller government and community service initiatives mean public administrators must increase citizen volunteer involvement. They should adopt successful techniques from volunteer administrators for recruiting, selecting, motivating, training, and developing volunteers. (SK)

Indiana's Community Systemwide Response Initiative trains teams of extension personnel and juvenile justice in community needs assessment and action planning to address juvenile issues. Interviews and focus groups showed that participants valued the partnerships, which resulted in community action and increased services for youth and families. (SK)

In the 1960s and 1970s, some communities developed community schools--facilities to accommodate multitudinous human services for people of all ages and interests. Some schools are reinventing themselves as community centers, developing educational and recreational programs for youths and adults; medical/mental health, social-service and…