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Nichols, John V. – Library Trends, 1995
Explores the reasons for incorporating trend analysis of librarianship into library planning and marketing. Key financial and technological issues are reviewed, and the techniques of environmental scanning and alternative scenario-building to incorporate future trends are discussed. (AEF)
Descriptors: Environmental Scanning, Financial Support, Futures (of Society), Information Technology
Stieg, Margaret F. – 1992
This book assesses the role of library and information science education in the American university against a broad background of the issues faced by professional schools and the field in general. The book is based in part on information provided by eight accredited schools of library and information science. The issues covered include: (1) what…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Educational Objectives, Faculty, Graduate Students
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Mchombu, K. J. – Information Processing and Management, 1984
Evaluation of Tanzanian experiences in developing nationwide public library system under conditions of limited resources and unlimited user demands discusses six principles as basis for alternative strategy: liquidating irrelevant librarianship theories; establishing valid performance measures; adopting cost-effectiveness; giving primacy to…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Cost Effectiveness, Developing Nations, Formative Evaluation
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Atkinson, Ross – Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2001
This article aims to suggest answers to two questions: What should be the primary purpose of information services in general and libraries in particular as we enter the new millennium? Assuming such a purpose, what array of services should the library be prepared to provide? These questions are approached mainly from the academic library…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Futures (of Society), Information Science
Koltay, Zsuzsa; Parmer, Coleen – 1993
This case study of the Kossuth Lajos Tudomanyeyetem, an academic library in Debrecen (Hungary), conducted in May 1992, describes its functioning and needs. Information gathered through a series of interviews, tours, library reports, and a review of relevant literature forms the basis for the case study. An overview of the library in its historical…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change, College Libraries, Context Effect