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Examines factors that influences the formation of a guide to collection of manuscripts on American Indian available in the library of American Society. Historical background of the library; Forms of printed manuscript guides; Prerequisites of the guide.

This article focuses on the survey regarding the values and functions of the library. The National Opinion Research Center studied the functioning of the public library as a personal service organization and as a civic institution. The survey was conducted in seventeen cities, and 2114 persons over twenty-one of age. Two out of every five adults reported reading as a favorite diversion but only 25 percent made use of libraries. Those interviewed knew little about the services which public libraries rendered other than those of lending books. The American Library Association evolved standards for school libraries as to staff, resources, quarters, and administrative plans, in relation to the program of the school. Also, the educational film is now recognized as an important tool for public libraries in the recording and transmitting of knowledge and ideas.

This article presents an analysis of the library in education. The significance of the school library depends upon three factors of primary importance: its role as a contributing source to the curriculum; its position as a learning center in the school, a place where ideas are generated and knowledge is unified and integrated and its function as a dynamic force in promoting the intellectual growth of the individual. The library must be evaluated in these terms. The need for further study in the following areas: government and administrative authority; internal management and the use of library.

Part III. Evaluates the ways in which nursing bodies can build up libraries and library resources for the profession. Statistical guides for the profession; Plea for inclusion of basic training in the use of library tools and in professional writing in nursing education.

This article reports that in the future it may become commonplace for some documents never to be issued in "original" or printed form, but to be reproduced from typewritten or "cold-type" copy directly by one of the processes of micro-photography. While it may also become commonplace in the future for every home and office to be equipped with its own reading machine, right now it appears that the best customers are librarians. Some of the libraries suggested that a retrospective "micro" publishing program should have a higher priority than a program to publish current materials.

This article presents information about the Fifteenth Annual Conference of the Graduate Library School of the University of Chicago, which was organized in July 1950. The conference was based on the subject of bibliographic organization. The program consisted of the presentation of fourteen papers presented over a period of six days. The primary objective of the conference was not to present a survey of existing facilities but rather to bring together a wide variety of points of view concerning the problems of bibliographic organization, and thereby to try to bring about an understanding, if not a consensus of opinion regarding basic problems which must be solved before an effective organization of the world of recorded materials can be developed.

The article presents information about the Longwood Library near Kennett square, Pennsylvania. The Library specializes in regional or personal collections. It has an admirable collection of material on Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours and his family. Du Pont was the President and the Chairman of the Board of DuPont EI Nemours. Du Pont used to collect material relating to his family and the Du Pont company. This collection of material by Du Pont was recently added to the extensive collection of documents of the Library concerning Du Pont de Nemours.

Presents an abstract of the article "Physics Literature: A Reference Manual," by Robert H. Whitford. Information on a survey of physics literature at the college level; Description of efficient library methods; Comment that background materials have been interspersed for greater interest and information.

Presents an abstract of the journal ""Some Photographic Copying Methods Useful in Libraries," by Karl M. Weigert. Information on the use of photographic copying by the library visitors who wish to record quickly and cheaply small parts of articles or books for further study; Description of different methods of making photographic copies; Report that Leica Auxiliary Equipment is applied where only ordinary room light was available.