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THE PAST AS PROLOGUE: TWO DECADES OF MISSED CHANCES
NORMAN W. BESWICKIt is heartbreaking to recall that in 1970 it was possible to be very hopeful that a great new age of British school librarianship was about to dawn. It did not happen: and this…
THE MATERIALS AND THEIR CHANGING NATURE
RICHARD FOTHERGILLForecasting for the future is fun and when I started in education in the sixties my guesses were fairly accurate. So few new materials and methods of presentation were being…
STRUCTURES FOR SERVICES
DOROTHY McLELLANDThe initial impressions received by anyone surveying the structures for school library services in the United Kingdom may give rise to astonishment that there is such a diversity…
ENGINEERS FOR THE ENGINE ROOM: THE ROLE OF THE COLLEGES' RESOURCES SERVICES
MAURICE WILSONA fashionable cant in education is that teachers are not so much concerned with teaching as with learning. This belief emerged mainly as a result of the work of new thinkers in…
FUTURE TRENDS IN THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF SCHOOL LIBRARIANS
JAMES E. HERRINGThe aim of this article is to identify future trends in the education and training of school librarians by examining the demands which will be made on future school librarians and…
COLLEGES OF EDUCATION AND RESOURCE SERVICES IN SCHOOLS
GORDON KIRKIt is now generally acknowledged that the quality of the learning environment created by schools depends on the existence of efficiently managed and accessible resource services…
THE PRICE AND THE PACKAGE: YOUR LIBRARY PRESS
GRAHAM JONESIntellectual distinction and visual panache lie outside the scope of this note: it concerns the arithmetic of the journal world. In terms of merit, it assumes arbitrarily that all…
EDUCATING SCIENTIFIC END‐USERS: AN EXPERIMENT IN UNDERGRADUATE ON‐LINE RETRIEVAL TUTORIALS
STUART JAMESPaisley College of Technology was originally founded in 1897 and in 1950 became a Scottish Central Institution; it currently has some 3000 students, all of whom are studying at…