Kinds Of Libraries Research Articles

Management Documentation Services

This article is concerned with services providing information about management (e.g. personnel practices, the use of management techniques) rather than the broader area of information for management. The manager's need for information services is examined by reference to actual enquiries put by managers in their daily work. The present state of documentation services (e.g. books, periodicals, abstracting and indexing services, guides to research) is examined, together with the various kinds of libraries providing information services on management. Finally, reasons for the non‐use of existing services by managers are examined and suggestions are made for the removal of these obstacles.

Another Structuring of Library Science for the Education of Librarians

I HAVE NOT here argued that generalists are needed (or will be needed) in libraries, any more than specialists. By implication I have said that our basic courses must, of necessity, in a first year, be general, at least in respect to libraries. As a study of history, or communities, or theory of knowledge, there is specialism, but npt in kinds of libraries. The argument is for an interdisciplinary education. The implication is also there that, by nature, man tends to specialize; thus there are lectures for faculty specialization, and independent study for student specialization. The argument that library education must be for generalists is somehow based on the phenomenon that most librarians move from specialty to specialty from cataloging to administration, from public library to school library. The years that pass between these changes would, I believe, negate most of the specific knowledge gained from any general or special courses taken years before at library school. Constant updating after graduation is a necessity in any field, and re-education for new responsibilities is normal. What we must aim at providing is an introduction to the profession in an intellectually and emotionally satisfying program. To do so we must provide a variety of learning experiences (seminars, large and small, lectures, independent study, research, and

読書施設の状況と住民の読書形態 : 公共図書館の設置計画に関する研究・1

This is the first report of the fundamental investigations for the planning of the library system to community area in Japan. Survey has been done in Amagasaki city in 1960 to know the distribution of the many kind of libraries, -public libraries, school libraries, libraries in the offices, rending book-stores, etc.-, how they are going to be used by the people, and what relationships are among them. Some of the results are as follows : 1) People who live in a residencial or commercial district read much books, compared with an agricultural community. 2) Ratio or number of readings depend on the age and school career of the people. 3) When people want to read a book, most people buy it at the book-store, some go to the rending book-store etc., and there are only few who go to the public library at the present circumstances. It seems mainly due to the poor condition of the public libraries, inferior to the number of buildings or books, compared to the other kind of libraries. Therefore, it is expected that more people go to the public libraries when the condition will be raised in near future.

The Library World Volume 56 Issue 5

WITH the end of the month Mr. C. B. Oldman will retire from the presidency of the L.A. He has had a successful year and—if that were possible or necessary—has increased the high esteem in which his colleagues hold him for his unobtrusive, friendly and efficient work for all kinds of libraries and especially for his direction of the examiners and assessors. Of the liaison he has maintained between the British Museum and the Association we and others have frequently made gratified comment. The year produced the best conference of recent years and has been one of steady progress in the rehabilitation and building of all sorts of libraries public and institutional; and, so far as public libraries are concerned, the annual lending of books is some thirty millions more than the record of a year or two ago. If there has been no spectacular event, no great new library, no revolution in library policy, and if the desired new legislation is still delayed, we can still say that our work increases in spite of the many things, alleged to be inimical to reading, from TV to cross‐word puzzles and pools, and the great demands modern industry makes upon the minds as well as the bodies of our people.

The Newspaper Office Library

The newspaper office library is quite unlike any other kind of library. It doesn't look like a library, it doesn't feel like one, it doesn't even smell like one. Books occupy a comparatively small space. A visiting librarian from a public library might well think he had been taken to the wrong place.

TRAINING AND PRACTICE IN SPECIAL LIBRARIANSHIP

The Syllabus of the Examinations of the Library Association is being modified to suit the needs of librarians employed in various kinds of libraries. In the nature of things no syllabus can be regarded as satisfactory for all types of library. We talk easily of libraries under three categories, public, university and special, but within each there is a wide diversity and the business of the syllabus must, therefore, be to provide a working foundation on which these varied interests may rightly develop. There is nothing exceptional in this. All training must begin by having regard to general principles, leaving the application of these principles to the judgment of the individual who applies them. Hence, what follows is based on the assumption that librarians in whatever library they are employed will be people who are capable of making a reasonable judgment on principles to suit their particular cases.

The Library World Volume 50 Issue 10

FROM everywhere there are reports of increased issues of books from libraries. The famine in copies no doubt accounts in part for it and, probably, there is also what is almost a resurgence of effort after knowledge amongst young men and women who are endeavouring in many fields of work to recover some of the losses of the war years. We cannot recall at any time when so much hard grinding study was being done as now. Pessimists about youth and juvenile delinquency (which however is incidental to a much younger age than that we are contemplating) would do well to reflect upon this fact. Whatever the cause, the immediate prospects for libraries in universities, works, and social institutions of every sort were never brighter. We know that certain types of “economist” of the faded “retrenchment and reform” type say the situation is temporary and artificial but, even if it is, and we are by no means acquiescent in this opinion, much ground may be won and held from any temporary good period. We think librarianship, under the present leadership of the Library Association, may be able to consolidate the position both for public and for other kinds of libraries. The Association was never better led than since the war; it has had remarkably statesmenlike presidents, an active council and an Honorary Secretary who for constructive capacity, vision, literary skill and fearlessness, combined with an energy and industry that leaves most of his contemporaries breathless, has not been surpassed; and he is backed by a Staff that rises to the ever‐increasing demands of the service. We are glad to write this last sentence, for Secretary Welsford has to cover many duties and serve many causes: receive and entertain the Association's guests from overseas; look after meetings; the educational services which now are very great; attend to the troubles of librarians everywhere and advise in them about matters ranging from salaries to ethics; our publications, accounts, catering, interviewing, negotiating with public departments and other bodies. As for the meetings of the Council and its committees, we are told, not by Mr. Welsford who knows nothing of this note, that its reports and papers ran in March alone to 200 foolscap typed pages! Of course Mr. Welsford has an excellent staff which assists him with real live interest. The time has come, however, as our readers now know, when special senior officers to deal with Membership and Education respectively are to be appointed to work side by side with the Librarian, the excellent Mr. Henrik Jones (who never fails the searcher, even the youngest, and seems to know what we are all doing) to carry “at a high level” some of the burdens. Annual Reports are not always read but we were drawn to these reflections by the recently issued Report of the Library Association for the year. We commend it to those who are inclined to leave it unread.

The Library World Volume 49 Issue 8

THIS journal is not devoted exclusively to public libraries; they are only part of the library fabric but, because the preponderant number of workers in our craft are in public libraries, they and their work naturally occur more often in our pages than do those of others. We have always urged that the profession is indivisable and that a librarian is a person who, in his fundamental training, should be equipped to serve in any kind of library. The tendency to create distinctions, based upon slight—and they usually are slight—differences of work, are unfortunate and have led to bickerings and sometimes recriminations. Even between the two arms of the public library service, the county and the urban, there has been an emphasis on the differences rather than the likenesses; and every wise librarian knows that the services of a fully‐engaged library in a town are exactly the same as those of a county except that the county has to cover longer distances. The emphasis is even stronger where public and nonpublic libraries are in question.

The Library World Volume 41 Issue 6

WE offer our readers good wishes for 1939. We hope that every kind of library may be allowed in peace to pursue its development for the spreading of good reading, to the end that enlightenment and with it wisdom may prevail amongst our millions of readers. We hope too that it will be another year of progress in service, in good and deftly‐employed technique, in the development of the will to make libraries interesting, attractive, useful and indeed inevitable and essential to all men. For librarians we hope it may be a further stage in the promotion of their profession, of growth of their own faith in it, and of increase in the willingness of those who employ librarians in municipalities, counties, colleges and other places to recognize training and service with better pay, prospects and status. We know that appreciation will not give greater willingness to serve; we do know it will give greater happiness.

The Library World Volume 6 Issue 6

The Library World Volume 6 Issue 6