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Matthews, Amber – Education for Information, 2021
While contemporary revisionist narratives frame the public library as a benevolent and neutral community resource, it has existed for over two centuries and has a deeply shaded past. Particularly, public libraries played key roles in projects tied to the industrialist mission of states and the education of select social groups during key…
Descriptors: Race, Social Justice, Inclusion, Public Libraries
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Diane Mizrachi; Michal Bus?ek – College & Research Libraries, 2023
This is the story of six books looted by Nazis from the Jewish Religious Community Library in Prague (JRCLP) that were discovered recently in the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Library. No scholarly literature describing similar experiences of North American academic libraries was found, nor were any professional guidelines for…
Descriptors: Books, Research Libraries, Academic Libraries, Antisocial Behavior
Hoffert, Barbara – Library Journal, 2011
Respondents to "Library Journal's" ("LJ") annual book buying survey of public libraries nationwide reported that adult book budgets were down eight percent overall, the largest plunge recorded since the survey began in 1998. What's more, for the first time ever, cuts were reported for every region of the country and every size of population…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Library Services, Library Administration, Library Materials
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Long, Dallas – Journal of Access Services, 2010
This article addresses concerns raised by members of the local Muslim community regarding copies of the Qur'an in the circulating collections at Milner Library, Illinois State University. The librarians conducted an analysis of the collection of holy books and investigated the rules and traditions of the Islamic faith that govern the care and…
Descriptors: Islamic Culture, Academic Libraries, Foreign Countries, Library Administration
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Rupp, Eric; Sweetman, Kimberly; Perry, David – Journal of Access Services, 2010
In 2007, New York University's Bobst Library assembled a group of staff charged with suggesting improvements to circulation policy. As a result of these efforts many changes were implemented at the beginning of the 2007-2008 academic year, including extended loan periods and the elimination of routine daily overdue fines. The changes were…
Descriptors: Library Services, Library Administration, Library Policy, Library Development
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Bullard, Rita; Wrosch, Jackie – Journal of Access Services, 2009
Automated storage/retrieval systems (ASRSs) are playing an integral part in today's library operations and collections management. Eastern Michigan University installed an ASRS as part of the new Halle Library, which opened in May 1998, to provide "storage" for up to 800,000 items. Over the past 10 years our policies and procedures have…
Descriptors: Library Services, Library Administration, Information Retrieval, Library Automation
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Wong, Yi Ling – Journal of Access Services, 2009
This paper takes a theoretical and practical approach in defining the "problem" of homelessness in libraries. The author examines three fundamental problems on homelessness. The three fundamental questions are: (a) Who are the homeless? (b) Why are they homeless? (c) What are their information needs in libraries? These questions are important in…
Descriptors: User Needs (Information), Homeless People, Public Libraries, Social Responsibility
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Lawrence, Peg; Weber, Lynne – Journal of Access Services, 2008
This article discusses some of the premigration tasks at Minnesota State Mankato in preparation for migration to a new integrated library system, ALEPH. The authors describe the review of circulation policies to make sure that only relevant, current data and practices were carried over. There is emphasis on the need for ongoing review of policies…
Descriptors: Library Networks, Library Automation, Library Development, Library Materials
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Fidishun, Dolores – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2002
Explains symbolic interactionism as a theory for analyzing research based on a qualitative interpretive process that can help librarians to understand the way in which the library staff and users view services, training, policy, and other issues. The theory focuses on the symbolic meaning of objects, such as books, and events as they are…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Library Personnel, Library Policy, Library Research
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Heaton, Shelley; Master, Nancy – Public Services Quarterly, 2006
This article reports the results of a survey of cell phone policies in university libraries conducted over a three-month period in 2005. The authors sought information about the libraries' problems regarding cell phone use and attendant noise by students and other library users. The authors began with an 18-question survey of one hundred…
Descriptors: Library Services, Library Policy, Library Administration, Telecommunications
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Urban Libraries Council, Evanston, IL. – 1993
The topic of this Urban Libraries Council (ULC) Frequent Fast Facts Survey is library staffing. These ULC Frequent Fast Facts Surveys are not intended to be scientific studies of the library community but rather "snapshots" on topics of current interest. Further analysis of the results is suggested, and for that reason, the completed…
Descriptors: Library Administration, Library Associations, Library Personnel, Library Policy
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Mairn, Chad P. – Community & Junior College Libraries, 2005
Libraries throughout history have utilized some method of communicating resources and services to their communities. Verbal communication progressed into newsletters, event calendars, bookmarks, and posters. More recently, technological advancements have allowed individuals to communicate ideas beyond the confined pages of a book or newsletter and…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, Community Colleges, College Libraries
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Waller, Andrew – Journal of Access Services, 2003
The Canadian university library members of two consortial e-journal deals were surveyed t o determine how many of the corresponding print journals had been cancelled as a result of their participation in the online package purchase. The survey indicated that the number of concurrent print subscriptions held by the libraries had notably decreased.…
Descriptors: Research Libraries, Electronic Journals, Library Research, Printed Materials
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Millet, Michelle S.; Mueller, Susan – Acquisitions Librarian, 2005
Following a library-wide brainstorming session and retreat, the Dean of the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library tasked an ad-hoc committee to discuss implications for the library and its users if certain processes were implemented or eliminated in order to streamline the processing of serials. As the library's collection continues to shift from…
Descriptors: Brainstorming, Academic Libraries, Electronic Journals, Printed Materials
Barrett, G. Jaia, Ed. – Association of Research Libraries, 2009
"Research Library Issues" ("RLI") is a bimonthly report from ARL (Association of Research Libraries), CNI (Coalition of Networked Information), and SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition). This issue includes the following articles: (1) Diversity in Research Universities (Bernadette Gray-Little); (2) An…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Diversity, Diversity (Faculty), Institutional Mission
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