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Automation Is the Answer, but What Is the Question? Progress and Prospects for Central and Eastern European Libraries.
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Borgman, Christine L. – Journal of Documentation, 1996
Reports on a survey of 70 research libraries in Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia. Results show that libraries are rapidly acquiring automated processing systems, CD-ROM databases, and connections to computer networks. Discusses specific data on system implementation and network services by country and by type of…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Databases, Foreign Countries, Information Services
The Role of National Libraries in the New Information Environment.
Cornish, Graham P. – 1991
This document examines the impact of new information technologies on the various roles of national libraries. Seventy-two national libraries responded to a questionnaire designed to assist in determining how such institutions worldwide are responding to recent technological innovations. The first of six chapters identifies three basic…
Descriptors: Archives, Bibliographic Records, Change Strategies, Computer Networks
State Library Agencies, Fiscal Year 1996. E.D. Tabs.
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Kroe, Elaine; Garner, Patricia; Medina, John; Padgett, Regina – 1998
This report contains data on state library agencies in the 50 states and the District of Columbia for state fiscal year 1996. The data were collected through the State Library Agencies (STLA) Survey, the product of a cooperative effort between the Chief Officers of State Library Agencies, the United States National Commission on Libraries and…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Grants, Library Collections, Library Development
Improving and Extending Rural Library Services in Idaho.
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Weatherby, James B.; And Others – 1991
This study of rural libraries in Idaho was designed to identify appropriate alternative local revenue sources to support library services as well as ways of improving the coordination and delivery of library services in the state and extending library access to unserved areas. Data were gathered from U.S. Bureau of the Census reports and special…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Change Strategies, Computer Networks, Financial Policy
Telecommunications for School Library Media Centers.
Swisher, Robert; And Others – School Library Media Quarterly, 1991
Discusses uses of computer-based telecommunications and telefacsimile by school library media programs to provide information for management and services to users. A case study of telecommunications in Oklahoma that focuses on the application of technology for cooperative selection is presented, future possibilities are discussed, and an annotated…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Case Studies, Computer Networks, Elementary Secondary Education
Reports of the AAU Task Forces on Acquisition and Distribution of Foreign Language and Area Studies Materials; A National Strategy for Managing Scientific and Technological Information; Intellectual Property Rights in an Electronic Environment.
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Association of American Universities, Washington, DC. – 1994
The Association of American Universities (AAU) Research Libraries Project was designed to involve universities in the process of shaping the new electronic environment faced by research libraries. The project has engaged university expertise to develop recommendations for action at the national and institutional levels to assure that the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Area Studies, College Administration