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Research has revealed that the principal's support of the school's library program is critical to its success. For this reason, it is imperative for librarians to understand the principal's perceptions and priorities This project was designed to determine the criteria that principals in South Carolina, USA use in hiring a school librarian, the competencies principals consider important for a school librarian to possess, and principals' level of satisfaction with the work of their current school librarian.

The present study examined children's responses to humor in fiction in order to (1) to discover what children find humorous in books they read or in those read to them, (2) to discover how they respond to humorous books, and (3) to understand the implications these responses havefor their comprehension and appreciation of humor and for their reading interests and preferences. A qualitative field study was conductedto study responses of children in one grade 4/5 classroom over afive month period. Data were collected by means of participant observation, Interviews, and analysis of documents. The results revealed that participants appreciated humor related to (1) superiority or sense of accomplishment, (2) physical events and appearances, (3) the scatological and gross t (4) language and wordplay. Children most often responded to books by: (1) retelling or summarizing, (2) reading aloudfrom the text, or (3) offering subjective evaluations. Less frequently, they (1) made personal connections or connections to other books, (2) offered Statements of analysis, or (3) offered interpretations. Responses revealed that some children lacked background knowledge necessary to understand and appreciate potentially humorous material. Sensitivity to more subtle forms of humor was heightened when passages were read aloud by a skilled reader. The importance of reading and sharing humor äs a social process was also revealed by the study's results.

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