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Peer reviewedHeim, Kathleen M. – RQ, 1986
As background for defining public library adult services in the 1980s the perceived role of the public library in the United States since its inception is summarized and changing definitions are analyzed. Data collection and analysis plans for the Adult Services in the Eighties Project are described. (EM)
Descriptors: Adults, History, Library Planning, Library Role
Olevnik, Peter P. – 1986
This paper reports the results of a study on the role of librarians in college library decision making. Emphasis is placed on the library directors' perceptions of librarians' participation in nine areas of decision making and the form of participation by librarians in these areas. The nine areas of decision making addressed by the study are: the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Decision Making, Decision Making Skills, Higher Education
Peer reviewedHayes, Robert M. – RQ, 1986
This brief description of the research program being carried out through the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of California, Los Angeles, focuses on issues, problems, and needs for research for long-range strategic planning for library and information resources in the research universities of the future. (MBR)
Descriptors: Budgets, Futures (of Society), Higher Education, Information Needs
