How Library Schools Respond to Inquiries.

ONE PHASE of recruitment activity that library schools are responsible for is the type of responses made to inquiries from prospective students. This phase is important in drawing more and possibly better students into the library schools and the profession. An attempt is made here to evaluate these responses through a survey. The author wrote to the 44 library schools accredited by the American Library Association and to 11 non-accredited schools.* Each school received a general inquiry on a postcard, without mention of age, and a letter, which stated that the applicant was 41 years old. The postcards and letters were mailed, from different addresses, February 15, 190, and the last day replies were considered was March 31, 1969. The schools were grouped according to size of enrollment, area of the country, and type of support (private, public). Only the significant figures relating to these groupings will be mentioned below. Some data will be compared to that included in an unpublished survey conducted by Normand Dumont, Shirley Edsall, and Annmarie Hug in 1955. Catalogs usually contain such information as admission requirements, history of the school, graduate study requirements, courses offered, fees, faculty, and financial aids, information used by inquirers