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Peer reviewedTully, Bill – Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 1998
John Metcalfe was a leader of the Free Library Movement in Australia in the 1930s, becoming a well-known educator, writer, and state librarian. His involvement in national and international library cooperation from the 1940s to the 1960s widened his earlier New South Wales focus. There is a strong democratic focus in Metcalfe's writings on…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Authors, Biographies, Cataloging
Peer reviewedAgboola, A. T. – International Information and Library Review, 1993
Examines the development of Nigerian University libraries and the political factors that created them and continue to effect their development, with a focus on those established between 1980 and 1984. Users, governance, finance, buildings, staffing, collection development, services, cataloging and classification, and automation are described.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Developing Nations, Economic Factors, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedCanevari de Paredes, Donna; Kishchuk, Marie – Canadian Library Journal, 1991
Describes a library cataloging project at the Ukranian Museum of Canada in Saskatoon. Topics discussed include the initial collection assessment, preliminary planning, funding, staffing, objectives during the first and second years, copy cataloging using the UTLAS system, original cataloging, distribution of the museum's catalog, and future needs.…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Utilities, Cataloging, Foreign Countries, Futures (of Society)
