Libraries and the Pursuit of Happiness

Duration: 29

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1981

Creator: Encyclopaedia Britannica Educ Corp

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Portrays the wide variety of services offered by public, school, and university libraries, using location photography to show the techniques used by a number of libraries to make their services accessible to the largest number of patrons. Includes sequences on library computers for patrons as well as reference librarians; on programs for special audiences, such as children, the disabled, and the business community; and on unusual services, such as the Atlanta Public Library's Toolmobile. Indicates that the goal of the contemporary library is, through its diversity, to help develop the diversity of the individual., if 1981, renewed

Complete Record: Portrays the wide variety of services offered by public, school, and university libraries, using location photography to show the techniques used by a number of libraries to make their services accessible to the largest number of patrons. Includes sequences on library computers for patrons as well as reference librarians; on programs for special audiences, such as children, the disabled, and the business community; and on unusual services, such as the Atlanta Public Library's Toolmobile. Indicates that the goal of the contemporary library is, through its diversity, to help develop the diversity of the individual.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.