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Massie, Dennis – OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., 2013
This report presents strategies for providing efficient and affordable interlending of actual physical items from special collections for research purposes, as well as advice on determining if a loan is the most appropriate way to fulfill a particular request. Lending physical items ranks among the most divisive issues in the field of archives and…
Descriptors: Library Materials, Library Administration, Libraries, Archives
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Haefele, Chad – Public Services Quarterly, 2011
While libraries offer next generation public services such as mobile access and e-books, these services are often neither home-grown nor sustainable. Libraries have a history of lending and services built on a simple model: they purchase an item and then provide it to the community. Unfortunately, the latest generation of services offered by…
Descriptors: Libraries, Library Services, Telecommunications, Electronic Publishing
Wendell, Laura – Peace Corps, 2012
This book is for community leaders, librarians, library committees, volunteers, aid workers and others who are interested in the practical aspect of starting and maintaining a successful library. Throughout the developing world, countless dedicated people respond to the pressing need for information in their communities by helping to start a…
Descriptors: Libraries, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Rewards
Kahn, Miriam B. – ALA Editions, 2012
Fire, water, mold, construction problems, power-outages--mishaps like these can not only bring library services to a grinding halt, but can also destroy collections and even endanger employees. Preparing for the unexpected is the foundation of a library's best response. Expert Kahn comes to the rescue with this timely update of the best…
Descriptors: Emergency Programs, Libraries, Library Administration, Preservation
Shivers, Cassandra – Computers in Libraries, 2012
The author, a digital access architect in the information systems department of the Orange County Library System in Florida, was given the challenge of creating a library mobile app around the 2009 holiday season. At that time, Sheri Chambers, digital content manager in the information systems department, and Debbie Moss, assistant director of the…
Descriptors: Information Systems, Libraries, Library Networks, Internet
Hellman, Eric – Library Journal, 2010
People keep writing articles about how valuable libraries are, even with ebooks and the Internet. What people are overlooking is that the reason libraries are having such fits dealing with a changing environment is not that libraries are unrecognized as fountains of value, it's that libraries are so valuable that they attract voracious new…
Descriptors: Competition, Internet, Library Services, Electronic Publishing
Farmer, Lesley – School Library Journal, 2011
This article presents the results of the latest "SLJ" survey of school expenditures and collections for 2009-2010. The survey reveals that librarians have used a variety of coping techniques to weather this economic storm, whether it is servicing more than one school, using additional volunteers, taking on more tasks, or seeking outside funding.…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, School Libraries, Librarians, Libraries
Kirschenbaum, Matthew G.; Ovenden, Richard; Redwine, Gabriela – Council on Library and Information Resources, 2010
The purpose of this report is twofold: first, to introduce the field of digital forensics to professionals in the cultural heritage sector; and second, to explore some particular points of convergence between the interests of those charged with collecting and maintaining born-digital cultural heritage materials and those charged with collecting…
Descriptors: Evidence, Persuasive Discourse, Information Technology, Cultural Background
Peters, Tom – Library Journal, 2009
The future of reading is very much in doubt. In this century, reading could soar to new heights or crash and burn. Some educators and librarians fear that sustained reading for learning, for work, and for pleasure may be slowly dying out as a widespread social practice. Several social and technological developments of the 20th century, such as…
Descriptors: Libraries, Library Services, Library Role, Reading Motivation
Penniman, Sarah; McColl, Lisa – Library Journal, 2008
Gone are the days of tiptoeing to the dumpsters with boxes of weeded books in tow. Lots of libraries are now taking advantage of the many low-cost services and solutions that promise to help extend the lives of collection discards. Some of these options can be very profitable. Some create goodwill within the local community. Some may seem more…
Descriptors: Libraries, Shared Resources and Services, Library Services, Library Materials
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Korah, Abe; Cassidy, Erin; Elmore, Eric; Jerabek, Ann – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2009
What is the future direction of reference books? What types of policies are libraries implementing regarding the purchase of electronic reference books? Are libraries still buying hard copy reference items when an electronic equivalent is available? This paper discusses a national survey of libraries regarding the purchase and use of electronic…
Descriptors: Libraries, Reference Materials, Library Services, Users (Information)
Head, Alison J.; Eisenberg, Michael B. – Project Information Literacy, 2011
The paper presents findings from 560 interviews with undergraduates on 10 campuses distributed across the US, as part of Project Information Literacy (PIL). Overall, the findings suggest that students use a "less is more" approach to manage and control all of the IT devices and information systems available to them while they are in the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Interviews, Use Studies, Library Equipment
Pattee, Amy – School Library Journal, 2008
Street lit is controversial stuff. Even though street lit is a huge hit with today's teens, one will not find the semiautobiographical novels of Vickie Stringer and Nikki Turner, the grandes dames of urban fiction, on many (if any) high school reading lists or, for that matter, on some public libraries' shelves. That's because street lit (aka…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Libraries, Librarians, Novels
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Tripathi, Manorama; Jeevan, V. K. J. – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2009
Purpose: The paper aims to study how the present distance learning libraries can improve upon their existing services and introduce new ones to enhance quality of services to distance learners. Design/methodology/approach: The paper includes a review of literature on quality assurance in open and distance education in general and student support…
Descriptors: Open Universities, Distance Education, Quality Control, Libraries
Wendell, Laura – Peace Corps, 2009
This book is for community leaders, librarians, library committees, volunteers, aid workers and others who are interested in the practical aspect of starting and maintaining a successful library. Throughout the developing world, countless dedicated people respond to the pressing need for information in their communities by helping to start a…
Descriptors: Libraries, Library Administration, Library Materials, Library Services
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