Continuing education for librarians in the United States / Elizabeth W. Stone. The Library of Congress in American life / John Y. Cole -- Affirmative action and American librarianship Elizabeth Dickinson and Margaret Myers -- American Indian library services / Charles T. Townley -- Advances in American library history / David Kaser -- Trends in library education -- Canada / John P. Wilkinson -- Continuing education for librarians in the United States / Elizabeth W. Stone.
Summary:
"While the new technology and its role in library service are clearly of great interest, we have recently witnessed a new awareness among librarians of the many social, economic, and political problems that must be dealt with before information professionals can make sensible use of the new technology to improve and extend library service. Volume 8 of Advances in Librarianship focuses on some of the major nontechnological problems currently facing the profession. Problems which, while exacerbated or even stimulated by the rise of the new technology, clearly are not dependent upon this technology for solution"--Preface
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