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Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. Office of Management Studies. – 1974
This kit contains a collection of representative documents on performance review procedures in academic and research libraries. Multiple documents from the Pennsylvania State University Libraries include a management guide to performance evaluation, a memo on performance evaluation from the librarian, and forms and instructions for use of both the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Job Performance
Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. Office of Management Studies. – 1974
This Systems and Procedures Exchange Center (SPEC) kit contains a collection of representative documents on performance review procedures in academic and research libraries. The kit comprises: (1) performance appraisal forms from the Stanford University Libraries; (2) a rating scale evaluation form and an essay evaluation form for professional…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Job Performance
Foster, Jocelyn – 1984
This collection of library documents, which illustrates current techniques for conducting user studies in order to facilitate specific public services planning and priority-setting efforts at the member libraries of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), contains excerpts from: (1) four general user studies conducted at the University of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Library Automation
Jenkins, Darrell L.; Person, Roland C. – 1988
Based on two surveys of Association of Research Libraries member libraries which were conducted in 1987 and 1988, this report begins with an overview of the responses from 48 libraries that had participated in development or fund raising campaigns within the past three years. Areas covered by the survey include library staffing and support,…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Educational Finance, Endowment Funds, Fund Raising
Westerman, Mel – 1984
This document is one of ten kits distributed annually by the Systems and Procedures Exchange Center (SPEC), a clearinghouse operated by the Association of Research Libraries, Office of Management Studies (ARL/OMS) that provides a central source of timely information and materials on the management and operations of large academic and research…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Databases, Library Administration, Library Automation
Bailey, Charles W., Jr., Comp.; Myers, Judy E., Comp. – 1991
This Systems and Procedures Exchange Center (SPEC) kit presents the results of a survey of library members of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) which assessed their perceptions of expert systems and determined their level of expert system development activity; 78 of these ARL libraries returned useable surveys, and 7 submitted planning…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Computers, Expert Systems, Higher Education
Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. Office of Management Studies. – 1983
In January 1983 the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) surveyed its members regarding their fund raising programs. A response rate of 85% (95 out of 113 libraries surveyed) was obtained. It was found that 85% of ARL member libraries had been involved in university-wide fund campaigns; that over 75% of the respondents had also conducted…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Educational Finance, Fund Raising, Higher Education
Black, William K. – 1987
This Systems and Procedures Exchange Center (SPEC) kit is based on information from 22 of the 71 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) member libraries that responded to a 1986 survey of 91 ARL academic libraries concerning the analysis of professional and non-professional positions, and on information collected from 17 additional libraries that…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Administrative Organization, Job Analysis, Library Personnel
Allen, Alice – 1985
Compiled from information and documents gathered during telephone and in-person interviews with Association of Research Library (ARL) member libraries, this publication examines cataloging policies designed to supplement national and network standards and cover situations that are not addressed at the national level. A concise summary discusses…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cataloging, Editing, Higher Education
Johnson, Peggy – 1990
Based on responses to a survey from 79 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) member libraries, this Systems and Procedures Exchange Center (SPEC) kit explores how these libraries are currently addressing management issues associated with materials budgets. The survey addressed the following broad areas: how libraries define their materials…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Budgeting, Higher Education, Library Administration
Burns, Robert, Jr. – 1987
Focused on the development of definitions and guidelines for management statistics, this Systems and Procedures Exchange Center (SPEC) kit is based on the responses of 91 academic members of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) to a survey investigating their internal uses of statistics, external statistics reporting, and tools for…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Data Collection, Higher Education, Library Administration
Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. Office of Management Studies. – 1977
At the request of the Pennsylvania State University Library, the Office of Management Studies surveyed Association of Research Libraries (ARL) members requesting information and documentation illustrating the organization, nature, and level of the library instruction function at their institutions. A review of the responses from 64 of the 94 ARL…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Administrative Organization, Centralization, Decentralization
Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. Office of Management Studies. – 1979
One section of a spring 1979 Systems and Procedures Exchange Center (SPEC) survey on communication in Association of Research Libraries (ARL) institutions examined how members exchange information with external groups including the university administration, faculty, users, support groups, other libraries, and the profession in general. According…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Committees, Higher Education, Library Administration
Zeidner, Nancy I., Comp. – 1976
This Systems and Procedures Exchange Center (SPEC) kit compiled by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) contains documents pertaining to bibliographic access in ARL libraries. Data collected in a 1975 SPEC user services survey are presented in two tables to illustrate new, eliminated, and planned services in ARL libraries and methods of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Cataloging, Higher Education
Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. Office of Management Studies. – 1975
This kit presents the results of a survey conducted by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) in 1974 to investigate and document various experiences of academic and research libraries in reclassifying portions of collections or entire collections and the relationship between libraries' particular classification schemes on effective…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cataloging, Classification, Higher Education
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