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Creating & Managing the Full-Service Homework Center
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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
Library Facility Siting and Location Handbook. The Greenwood Library Management Collection.
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
Determining Your Public Library's Future Size: A Needs Assessment and Planning Model.
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
Library Fundraising: Models for Success.
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
Library Planning and Decision-Making Systems.
Hamburg, Morris; And Others – 1974
A research group at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, worked on the development of a system to provide the required statistical information for effective management and decision making in university and large public libraries. A management science approach was used. Library objectives, standards, and performance criteria were…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Data Collection, Decision Making, Library Administration
Standards for Library Service: An International Survey.
Withers, F. N. – 1974
This survey of recommended standards for library service in some 20 countries starts with national libraries; covers libraries in universities and colleges, special libraries, and public libraries; and concludes with school libraries. Within the chapters on each type of library, countries are considered separately. Abstracts are given of the…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Cross Cultural Studies, International Programs, Library Associations
Libraries Without Walls 4: The Delivery of Library Services to Distant Users. Proceedings of an International Conference Organized by the Centre for Research in Library and Information Management (CERLIM), Manchester Metropolitan University (Manchester, England, September 14-18, 2001).
Brophy, Peter, Ed.; Fisher, Shelagh, Ed.; Clarke, Zoe, Ed. – 2002
This proceedings of the fourth Libraries Without Walls Conference addresses key strategic issues arising from international, regional, and cross-sectoral approaches to the provision of library services to distant users. The following papers are included: Theme 1: Libraries and Virtual Learning Environments: "Introduction" (Peter Brophy,…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Uses in Education