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Hinsch, Neil – 1987
The Sydney Public Library began as the Australian Subscription Library and Reading Room which opened in Sydney on December 1, 1827, with 1,000 volumes. The Municipal Council of Sydney took possession of the library in 1909. The library evolved from a closed access, fixed shelf position library to an open access system in 1910. A complete…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Librarians, Library Administration, Library Collections
Vainstein, Rose; Magg, Marian – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1960
This publication brings together for the first time in a single volume the status of public library standards in the United States. Based on a master's thesis submitted to the Department of Library Science at The Catholic University of America by Mrs. Marian Magg, the study has been brought up to date and also expanded. This bulletin provides not…
Descriptors: Educational History, State Policy, Guidelines, Library Development
Cohen, Nathan M.; Denison, Barbara; Boehlert, Jessie C. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1963
During the last decade, research has become increasingly important to the profession of librarianship. Seven library schools now have doctoral programs, foundation grants have stimulated and supported scores of major projects, and the research method has been recognized as an accepted technique for solving library problems. The increasing volume…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Annotated Bibliographies, Doctoral Dissertations
Johnson, Lamar – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1933
This manuscript reports a study of the secondary-school library. The library, it is claimed, exists first to improve the curriculum, and second, to encourage reading as a leisure-time occupation. The purposes of this investigation are: (1) to list and describe activities and devices used in outstanding secondary-school libraries; (2) to present…
Descriptors: Educational History, National Surveys, Secondary Schools, Secondary School Students
Buschman, John – 1983
This examination of the past and present states of collection development in the research library covers background information, theories, and associated problems. A historical review of methods that have been and are currently being used for collection development includes discussions of the changes imposed by World War II on the practice of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Background, Faculty, Higher Education
Colson, John Calvin – 1983
Intended to contribute to a better understanding of research library development in the United States, this report describes the history of the development of the library of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin from 1904 to 1918. It is based on records of the relationships between three principals--John R. Commons and Richard T. Ely (members…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Development, Higher Education, Institutional Cooperation
Cummings, Martin M., Ed. – 1988
Ten friends and colleagues of Warren J. Haas, former president of the Association of Research Libraries, contributed the nine papers in this Festschrift honoring Haas on the occasion of his 65th birthday and the tenth year of his leadership as president of the Council on Library Resources. The papers, which describe Haas's role in significant…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, International Cooperation, Leadership
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1909
Since the organization of the United States Bureau of Education in 1867 statistics of public libraries have appeared periodically in the annual reports. It has been the purpose to gather such statistics every five years, but it has not been possible to carry out the plan with perfect regularity. For forty years every annual report of the bureau…
Descriptors: Educational History, Statistical Surveys, National Surveys, Questionnaires