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Matava, Tobie; Coffey, Dan; Kushkowski, Jeffrey – Public Services Quarterly, 2010
Today's academic library provides resources that users can access both physically in the library and virtually from academic offices. This increasing availability of online access means that information resources are no longer confined within library walls and librarians need to rethink how their constituents' information needs are being met.…
Descriptors: Information Needs, Academic Libraries, Library Services, Librarians
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Barnes, Newkirk; Peyton, Gail – Public Services Quarterly, 2006
The tremendous expansion of online information sources has prompted academic librarians to increase their outreach to undergraduates of the "Net Generation" in an effort to more effectively promote their libraries' resources to these students. Such outreach programs involve identifying library resources that support the…
Descriptors: Outreach Programs, Information Sources, Information Seeking, Reference Services
Lindberg, Dennis; Chalfoun, Eileen – 1985
This report examines the process of planning library services for off-campus students that was undertaken by the Vermont State Colleges (VSC) in 1982, and considers the implications of the plans for the system as a whole as well as for the Community College of Vermont (CCV), a non-campus, non-traditional college without a library. Following a…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Extension Education, Higher Education
Joslin, Ann – 1988
Based largely on recommendations from a 1986 strategy study, this long range plan for the improvement of library services in Idaho addresses goals and activities for the years 1989-1991. It is intended to support the direction of library development begun in 1984 to improve services to the user and to meet Library Services and Construction Act…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Annual Reports, Interlibrary Loans, Library Automation
Venner, David G.; Cotton, Sally – 1986
Of potential interest to small towns in rural areas, this report describes England's first attempt at applying to a rural area the concept of a multi-agency information and advice center based on a library. The comprehensive review covers all phases of the project: (1) identification of a community's information and advice needs; (2) consultation…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Attitudes, Community Characteristics, Community Information Services
Whitesides, William L., Sr., Ed. – 1998
This book, written by graduate students at the Catholic University (District of Columbia) School of Library and Information Science, examines current priorities, policies, and practices of public libraries. Following an introduction, "Reinventing Libraries: Responding to the Forces of Change" (Lisa Crisman), chapters include: (1) "A…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Appropriate Technology, Change, Cultural Context