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Greenstein, Daniel – 2001
This paper supplements a previous paper that reported on a tour of leading U.S. research libraries that are investing significantly in and have significant experience with innovative online collections and services. The previous paper reported the following five key challenges: architectural and technical; standards and best practices; strategies…
Descriptors: Archives, Cultural Background, Electronic Libraries, Information Technology
Carroll, Margaret Aby; Chandler, Yvonne J. – 2002
This study examines whether an analysis of characteristics of libraries or information centers and librarians in highly productive companies yields operational models and standards that can improve their efficiency and effectiveness and their parent organization's productivity. Data was collected using an e-mail survey instrument sent to 500 large…
Descriptors: Computer Software Development, Information Centers, Information Services, Librarians
Oberg, Dianne – 1996
This study examines the meaning of the concept of "principal support" from the point of view of seven teacher-librarians in two Alberta (Canada) school districts. It also explores the different ways in which these teacher-librarians went about increasing principal support for the school library program and for their role as…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Instructional Leadership
Markless, Sharon – 2002
This paper draws on the experiences of the author during the past 15 years of working primarily with school, college, university and health librarians, but with occasional forays into the public and special library domains. It is written by an educationalist and teacher trainer with an interest in library development; someone who has never run a…
Descriptors: Inservice Education, Instructional Design, Learning Theories, Librarians
Lupton, Paul – 1996
This paper examines information technology and learning; the role of the teacher-librarian and resource services in relation to the technologies; and the perceptions primary school teachers have of teacher-librarians in the integration of information technology into classroom programs, with an emphasis on the factors that facilitate the…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Educational Cooperation, Educational Technology, Elementary Education
Lynch, Beverly P. – 1998
A conference on the theme, "New Missions of Academic Libraries in the 21st Century," was held on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the founding of Peking University and the dedication of its new library building. The published conference proceedings included 144 papers. Plenary papers on the six sub-themes of the conference were…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Conferences, Continuing Education, Electronic Libraries
Yates, Barbara – 1997
The information technology revolution is affecting schools on a broader basis than just libraries. Teachers, administrators, and educational technology specialists are all espousing expanded roles to address the new opportunities, with the result that responsibilities are beginning to overlap and roles are becoming blurred. The use of increasingly…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Career Development, Change, Computers
Hopkins, Dianne McAfee; Zweizig, Douglas L. – 1999
The Library Power program is a school improvement initiative of the DeWitt-Wallace Reader's Digest Fund that began in 1988, designed to promote the full integration of the school library media program into the school curriculum in public elementary and junior high/middle schools. With a total investment exceeding $45 million, Library Power is the…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Course Integrated Library Instruction, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education