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Mediavilla, Cindy – ALA Editions, 2018
Despite the proliferation of online homework websites and tutoring services, public libraries still have an important role to play when it comes to supporting young people's educational needs. Public libraries that take a proactive approach--by setting up organized homework centers--have the potential to become catalysts for better performance in…
Descriptors: Homework, Public Libraries, Library Role, Models
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Sequeiros, Paula – Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 2011
This paper discusses how public library readers in Almeida Garrett, Porto, create a reading atmosphere, focusing on meanings associated with aural conditions. Through a qualitative, single case study, ethnographic and interview techniques were applied. Readers' actual practices and discourses, through a theoretical sample, and those of managers,…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Reading, Foreign Countries, Ethnography
Canty, Adrienne Brown – Computers in Libraries, 2010
In 2008 and 2009, the Edmonton Public Library (EPL), where the author works as an information professional, completed a $6 million CDN (about $5.7 million) RFID conversion project with the installation of automated check-in and sorting equipment at six of its 17 service points. The sorters currently handle about 55% of EPL's system's total…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Information Scientists, Technological Advancement, Library Automation
McClure, Charles R.; And Others – 1995
This report is the result of the statutory mandate by the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS) to promote activities to extend the nation's library and information handling capability as essential links in the emerging global information infrastructure. In a study to inventory the challenges related to libraries' roles…
Descriptors: Cost Estimates, Information Services, Internet, Models
Palmour, Vernon E. – Drexel Library Quarterly, 1985
Presents the Public Library Association's planning model for strategic planning in public libraries. The development of the model is explained, the basic steps of the planning process are described, and improvements to the model are suggested. (CLB)
Descriptors: Committees, Library Planning, Library Surveys, Long Range Planning
Bertot, John Carlo; McClure, Charles R.; Ryan, Joe – 2000
This report summarizes the findings, issues, and lessons learned from the Developing National Public Library and Statewide Network Statistics and Performance Measures study conducted between January 1999 and August 2000. The overall goal of the study was to develop a core set of national statistics and performance measures that librarians,…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Information Networks, Information Services, Information Technology
Seager, Andrew J.; And Others – 1987
This volume contains descriptions of 62 library programs that have been identified as being exemplary in one of the following program topic areas: (1) services to populations without library or media centers; (2) services to populations with inadequate library/media centers; (3) services to special populations, including the disadvantaged,…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Higher Education
Koontz, Christine M. – 1997
This handbook is a guide to the complex process of library facility siting and location. It includes relevant research and professionals' siting experiences, as well as actual case studies of closures, openings, mergers, and relocations of library facilities. While the bulk of the volume provides practical information, the work also presents an…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Decision Making, Facility Planning, Facility Utilization Research
Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. Office of Management Studies. – 1983
This 11-document kit introduces the current and planned uses of telecommunications facilities in the computerized information systems of several research libraries, public libraries, and library groups contacted in 1983. The first two documents are excerpts from reports on networks: "Telecommunications: An Overview for OCLC," and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Computer Oriented Programs, Higher Education, Information Science
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Kascus, Marie; Aguilar, William – College and Research Libraries, 1988
Discusses the trend toward increased numbers of off-campus programs and the difficulty of providing adequate library services to off-campus students. Several delivery systems are described and compared, and a system at the University of Wyoming that utilizes bibliographic utilities is presented as model for off-campus library services. (22…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Accreditation (Institutions), Bibliographic Utilities, Comparative Analysis
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Savard, Rejean – RQ, 1986
Public librarians in Quebec were surveyed to compare their orientation toward a field-specific model of professionalism with their orientation toward a traditional model based on traits derived from other professions. Results indicate that they had a stronger orientation toward the field-specific model to measure the level of professionalism in…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Comparative Analysis, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries
Brawner, Lee B.; Beck, Donald K., Jr. – 1996
This book guides library administrators through stages of long-range needs assessment, particularly taking what they know about their user community, library services, performance standards, and anticipated resources, and using that knowledge to determine space and building needs. Tips, explanations, and hands-on planning tools come through…
Descriptors: Building Plans, Community Attitudes, Data Analysis, Evaluation Methods
Burlingame, Dwight F., Ed. – 1995
This book is a compilation of advice on library fundraising through the presentation of real-life case studies. Contributors offer both recommendations and caveats based on their firsthand fundraising experiences in public and college libraries. Libraries of varying size and financial scale are represented in discussions of pursuing grants,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Libraries, Endowment Funds, Fund Raising