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Stielow, Frederick J.; Tibbo, Helen R. – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 1987
Describes the addition of a collection management module to an advanced reference course in the arts and humanities, and reports the preliminary findings of a practicum that used the Research Libraries Group Conspectus as a basis for collection analysis in the humanities for a university library. (Author/CLB)
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Graduate Study, Humanities
Atkinson, Hugh C. – American Libraries, 1987
Discusses the goals of library networks in terms of sharing scarce resources and improving user access to information, and advocates cooperative library planning to enhance these goals, including interlibrary activities and multitype library systems. (CLB)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Cooperative Programs, Interlibrary Loans, Library Collections
Hirshon, Arnold – 1988
This report responds to a proposal for an internal audit of the library collection at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) and describes various measures that University Library Services (ULS) has already implemented to automate the inventory process and improve security. Introductory materials provide an executive summary and background…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Facility Inventory, Higher Education, Library Automation

Cash, D. Michele; Paar, Jerry – RQ, 1987
Surveys of labor educators and academic librarians, designed to study library usage by participants in labor education, indicate that a lack of communication and understanding exists between the two departments at many institutions. Increased cooperation and library utilization are recommended. Twenty-seven references are listed, and the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Labor Education, Library Collections
Comptroller General of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1984
This report summarizes the views of depository librarians on the Government Printing Office's (GPO) depository library program as obtained from a questionnaire administered by the U. S. General Accounting Office. The questionnaire was developed to obtain background information for that office's response to the request of the Chairman of the Joint…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Depository Libraries, Federal Programs, Government Publications
Commission on Preservation and Access, Washington, DC. – 1993
Although a sustained campaign has been underway to preserve published materials of importance to scholarly research in the United States, there has not been a similar impetus for the preservation of unpublished materials and the kinds of collections held by archives. A systematic methodology for developing preservation priorities for archival…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Archives, Documentation, Information Services

Isaacs, Margaret – Australian Library Journal, 1987
Examines the place of fiction in the library collection, the attitudes and practices of Australian librarians with respect to fiction, and the factors, including historical ones, which have shaped these attitudes. A proposal for a new approach to fiction in public libraries is presented. (Author/CLB)
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Fiction, Foreign Countries, Library Collections
Texas State Library, Austin. Dept. of Library Development. – 1986
This publication contains information taken from the 1985 Annual Report/System Membership Applications submitted by public libraries in Texas. The statistics reflect each library's last local fiscal year or status at the end of that year, except in the case of staffing and schedule information, which is as current as possible. The report is…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Depository Libraries, Interlibrary Loans, Library Collections
Texas State Library, Austin. Dept. of Library Development. – 1987
Information presented in this report is taken from the 1986 Annual Report/System Membership Applications submitted by public libraries in Texas. The report is divided into five sections which contain: (1) general information, including listings of the Texas State Library governing or advisory committees; the Texas State Library Administrative…
Descriptors: Depository Libraries, Financial Support, Library Collections, Library Expenditures
Morra, Linda G. – 1992
The Library Services and Construction Act (LSCA) Amendments of 1990 required the General Accounting Office (GAO) to conduct a review of the Department of Education's Research Library, which is a component of the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI). Data were gathered by reviewing several existing studies of alternatives for…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Federal Government, Federal Legislation, Financial Support
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1991
The Library Services and Construction Act (LSCA) Amendments of 1990 required the General Accounting Office (GAO) to conduct a review of the Department of Education's Research Library, which is a component of the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI). Data were gathered by interviewing one researcher and four librarians familiar…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Federal Government, Federal Legislation, Financial Support

Podolsky, Arthur – 1991
Based on information from the 1989 Federal-State Cooperative System for Public Library Data (FSCS), which was collected by the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) in machine readable format, this report summarizes information about the public libraries that was supplied to NCES by the State Library Agency…
Descriptors: Financial Support, Interlibrary Loans, Library Circulation, Library Collections
Barringer, Sallie H. – 1987
Conjectural outcomes of the passage of a recently proposed constitutional amendment to make English the official language of Texas may be compared to the actual linguistic situation in Belgium. Following the revolt led by French-speaking Walloons in 1830, French was used for all national laws and decrees in Belgium as well as for secondary and…
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Bilingualism, Cross Cultural Studies, Culture Conflict
Hefner, James A.; Rhodes, Lelia G. – 1987
Historical antecedents as well as contemporary social and cultural factors have impeded the Black student's quest for excellence in education. As a result, the historically Black colleges have, since their inception, existed to provide a quality education to those who have been excluded from the educational mainstream. Now that the focus of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Black Colleges, Black Education, Black Students
1984
A collection analysis project (CAP) was conducted at the Wolfgram Memorial Library of Widener University (Pennsylvania) in 1983 in order to critically evaluate library collection development methods in relation to the present and anticipated needs of faculty and students. The project followed a model developed by the Association of Research…
Descriptors: Budgeting, College Faculty, College Libraries, Guidelines