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Pennington, Jerry – Library Resources and Technical Services, 1985
Discusses transition of the small library into twenty-first century, highlighting evaluation of collection development plans and procedures, examination of catalog in terms of collection control, building of machine databases for future online catalogs to improve access to collections, and involvement in research to improve bibliographic control…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Databases, Futures (of Society), Library Automation
Brugger, Judith M., Comp.; And Others – 1996
Technical services workstations (TSWs) are personal computers that have been customized for use in technical services departments. To gather information on their use and prevalence in research libraries, the Program for Cooperative Cataloging Standing Committee on Automation surveyed the 119 members of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL)…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cataloging, Higher Education, Human Factors Engineering
Bakke, Celia; Whitlach, Jo Bell – 1991
For this kit, 119 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) academic libraries were surveyed to determine the impact of online catalogs on the training needs of technical services staff and on the planning and organization of programs to meet these needs; responses were received from 66 libraries. Analyses of the responses indicated that the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Educational Planning, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
Clark, Sharon E. – 1987
This Systems and Procedures Evaluation Center (SPEC) kit is based on information and documents submitted by 15 Association of Research Library (ARL) member libraries in response to an August 1986 questionnaire mailed to 19 ARL libraries selected on the basis of their size, level of automation, and organizational structure of copy cataloging. A…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Administrative Organization, Cataloging, Higher Education
Brennan, Patricia, Comp.; Reed-Scott, Jutta, Comp. – 1993
In the fall of 1993, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Office of Management Services conducted a survey to determine the status of automation activities within preservation departments in member libraries. The survey was sent to 68 ARL libraries that have established preservation departments under the management of a preservation…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Database Management Systems, Higher Education, Information Management