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Kaviev, Airat F.; Mamontova, Marina S. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
The relevance of the study is due to the intensive introduction of information technology to library activities. Active use of information technology has a significant impact on the professional development of a librarian. It requires a high level of information competence. The purpose of the paper is to present and describe an information…
Descriptors: Competence, Library Personnel, Professional Development, Foreign Countries
Brown, Jennifer A. Scott; Stefaniak, Jill E. – Contemporary Educational Technology, 2016
The majority of research that has been conducted on structuring mentorship programs has been on career support in terms of transferring tacit and explicit knowledge from the supervisor to the protégé. While the instructional design literature touts that cognitive apprenticeships provide a great framework for constructivist and situated learning…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Story Reading, Story Telling, Librarians
Consumer Health Information Provision in Rural Public Libraries: A Comparison of Two Library Systems
Flaherty, Mary Grace – Library Quarterly, 2013
To better understand health information provision in the public library setting, two cooperative library systems that serve primarily rural populations in upstate New York were studied. The central library in one of those systems established a consumer health information center (CHIC) in 1999. In the other system, the central library does not have…
Descriptors: Library Services, Public Libraries, Printed Materials, Library Personnel
Juniper, Bridget; Bellamy, Pat; White, Nicola – Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 2012
This study aimed to develop and pilot a questionnaire to determine the ways in which working in a UK public library system can impact the well-being of those deployed in the sector. The methodological framework was based on an approach used to evaluate the well-being of patients in a clinical setting. Based on the responses of 466 employees, the…
Descriptors: Evidence, Employees, Patients, Public Libraries
Bills, Linda G. – 1983
A project was conducted from 1980 to 1982 to determine the costs and benefits of OCLC use in 29 small and medium-sized member libraries of the Illinois Valley Library System (IVLS). Academic, school, public, and special libraries participated by recording the time and staffing levels used for and the cost of OCLC and pre-OCLC cataloging (by…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Cost Effectiveness, Library Expenditures, Library Networks
Miller, Edward P.; And Others – 1979
This survey of library personnel had the following objectives: (1) to determine the best subject areas in which to provide continuing educational opportunities for staff members, (2) to determine the level of subject content for each subject area, (3) to identify an expected participant enrollment for each level of each subject, and (4) to…
Descriptors: Librarians, Library Networks, Library Personnel, Library Surveys
Lindsey, Elizabeth – 1982
Site-visit reports for 12 correctional facilities libraries are summarized using the headings of the Policy Directive for Institutional Library Services, and centering only on the general libraries. Libraries studied are categorized as either adequate, minimum but functional, or inadequate. Observations and specific recommendations are presented…
Descriptors: Correctional Institutions, Financial Support, Guidelines, Institutional Libraries

Linsley, Laurie S. – College and Research Libraries, 1982
Presents results of a survey of users of Florida Library Information Network (FLIN), a statewide multitype interlibrary loan network. The paper centers on the role of academic libraries (the heaviest users) and discusses interlibrary loan staffing, request fulfillment, OCLC utilization, network performance and other factors. Eight references are…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Interlibrary Loans, Library Networks
Buchanan, Holly Shipp; And Others – 1982
In 1980 a survey was conducted of 600 hospital libraries within the Kentucky-Ohio-Michigan Regional Medical Library (KOMRML) Network (Region V of the National Library of Medicine's RML Program) in order to gather managerial information on library users; facilities; holdings; procedures; services; administration; personnel; budget; expenditures;…
Descriptors: Hospitals, Library Materials, Library Networks, Library Personnel
Bills, Linda G.; Wilford, Valerie – 1983
A project was conducted from 1980 to 1982 to determine the costs and benefits of OCLC use in 29 small and medium-sized member libraries of the Illinois Valley Library System (IVLS). Academic, school, public, and special libraries participated in the project. Based on written attitude surveys of and interviews with library directors, staff,…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Cataloging, Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making
Eckard, Helen M. – 1982
This report presents findings of the first national survey of U.S. library networks undertaken by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) from 1977 through 1979. A definition of library networks as used in the survey is provided, as well as information on the organizational type, general characteristics, nature of participants,…
Descriptors: Databases, Library Administration, Library Automation, Library Cooperation
Hendrix, Wilma; Rudolph, Janell – 1981
During the 1981 Spring Semester, the Memphis State University (MSU) Libraries asked representative groups of library users to give their views about the services, personnel, and facilities of the library system in order to evaluate the effectiveness of the libraries in the MSU community. This study indicates that the MSU Libraries are effectively…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Higher Education, Library Facilities, Library Materials
South Carolina State Library, Columbia. – 1989
Prepared as an outline of the long-range South Carolina Library development program required by the Library Services and Construction Act (LSCA), this document describes: (1) the library public, with emphasis on the disadvantaged, illiterate, blind and physically handicapped, persons with limited English speaking ability, the elderly, and the…
Descriptors: Information Needs, Library Cooperation, Library Networks, Library Personnel
South Carolina State Library, Columbia. – 1988
Prepared as an outline of the long-range South Carolina Library development program required by the Library Services and Construction Act (LSCA), this document describes: (1) the library public, with emphasis on the disadvantaged, illiterate, blind and physically handicapped, persons with limited English speaking ability, the elderly, and the…
Descriptors: Information Needs, Library Cooperation, Library Networks, Library Personnel
Lynch, Eugene A. – 1981
This survey of 22 secondary school libraries in southeastern Connecticut, conducted to determine the extent of school cooperation in cooperative library activities, quantified the schools which have the tools of interlibrary cooperation (union lists, directories, etc.) and identified the number of schools which engaged in specific regional…
Descriptors: Budgets, Delivery Systems, Interlibrary Loans, Learning Resources Centers
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