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Peters, Cynthia; And Others – 1984
The need to plan for operating and service patterns and to establish priorities for services to readers in the new Reference and Bibliographical Center at the Newberry Library guided this self-study. From December 1983 to August 1984, 32 staff members (grouped into 1 study team and 4 task forces) investigated the critical issues of bibliographic…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Library Facilities, Library Materials, Library Personnel
Gregor, Dorothy, Ed. – 1984
The 29 participants in this meeting on retrospective conversion included research and public library administrators; representatives from the Library of Congress, the major bibliographic utilities, and the regional networks; librarians with experience in planning retrospective conversion projects; three authors of the "Issues in Retrospective…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Automation, Library Catalogs, Library Cooperation
Kim, Sook-Hyun – 1983
A cooperative serials project was undertaken by eight members of the Association of Research Libraries to develop a regional resource sharing system for current serials. The goals of the program were to implement a cooperative serials acquisitions and deselection program and to promote a rapid and extensive interlibrary loan program through the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Interlibrary Loans, Library Acquisition
Wisconsin State Dept. of Public Instruction, Madison. – 1985
This survey updates a 1976 survey conducted by the Division for Library Services of Wisconsin. The original survey obtained broad information on patterns of participation in cooperative activities by all types of libraries, including volume demands, referral patterns, and needs for interlibrary loan and reference between different types of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cataloging, Cooperative Planning, Higher Education
Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Network Development Office. – 1985
The May 1985 program session of the Library of Congress Network Advisory Committee focused on the identification of key issues in the networking field. Presentations included discussions of major network developments in the last two decades, the changing network players, the impact of technology on networks, and library networks and the law. The…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Information Science, Library Automation, Library Cooperation
Harriman, Sigrid G., Ed. – 1986
The December 1985 program session of the Library of Congress Network Advisory Committee (NAC) focused on determining the effectiveness of networking, identifying a common vision or goal, and developing a strategy to accomplish that goal. The program session included remarks on the role of the regional networks in national networking by Louella V.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Information Science, Library Automation, Library Cooperation
Fact Finders, Albany, NY. – 1987
This report presents the findings of a survey of New York State Library System administrators and governors designed to provide an empirical benchmark of opinion within the New York State library system and to aid in discussion, evaluation, and planning at the library systems conference. Survey data were collected by means of telephone interviews…
Descriptors: Library Administration, Library Cooperation, Library Networks, Library Planning
McClure, Charles R.; And Others – 1985
This report summarizes activities conducted from fall 1984 through spring 1985, under a planning grant from the Council on Library Resources for Innovation and Improvement of Basic and Supplementary Education for Academic and Research Libraries. The report includes a review of selected literature related to educational programs for academic…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Library Administration, Library Education
Schroeder, J. R.; And Others – 1983
Recognizing that the major technical direction of this decade is toward proximity of computing function to its users, the Research Libraries Group (RLG) is moving to distribute its processing capabilities. The goals of this study were to formulate an architecture for an RLG distributed system, to identify pre-existing components appropriate for…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Data Processing, Evaluation Criteria, Graphs
Council on Library Resources, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1984
Highlights of the Council on Library Resources' (CLR) 28th year and descriptions of active projects are included in the body of this report. Preliminary materials include lists of members of the council and of the board of directors, council committees and officers, and council staff and consultants, as well as a memorial to Louis Booker Wright,…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Annual Reports, Expenditures, Grants
Nollan, Richard – 1986
In December of 1985 the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) conducted a survey of its 105 academic members to determine which libraries were acquiring and circulating microcomputer software and what policy guidelines were regulating this library function. Of the 74 libraries that responded, 72 indicated they were acquiring microcomputer…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Computer Software, Higher Education, Library Acquisition
Library of Congress, Washington, DC. – 1984
Fiscal year activities are summarized for seven organizational areas of the Library of Congress: (1) administration: office of the librarian and associate librarian for management; (2) national programs: American Folklife Center, Children's Literature Center, Educational Liaison Office, Exhibits Office, Federal Library Committee, Information…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Cataloging, Copyrights, Federal Programs

Gherman, Paul M. – Journal of Library Administration, 1987
Summarizes the responses of research library directors to the Library of Congress' Network Advisory Committee statement, which stresses an egalitarian network environment. The special role of research libraries and the effect on their participation in local area and multitype networks are discussed. (6 references) (CLB)
Descriptors: Information Technology, Library Administration, Library Networks, Library Role
Snoke, Helen Lloyd; Loup, Jean L. – 1986
This study was conducted to learn the extent to which member institutions of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) with Blackwell North America (B/NA) approval plans covering philosophy and political science are duplicating collections, and to determine what supplementary collection development practices are being used. Initial data were…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Interviews, Library Collection Development
Council on Library Resources, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1985
The 1985 annual report of the Council on Library Resources (CLR) describes an underlying uniformity of purpose in the activities of each of the three components of the program: research, exploration and installation of improved operating capabilities, and librarianship itself. The intent in each program is to reshape academic and research…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Annual Reports, Expenditures, Grants