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Szudy, Thomas; Byrnes, Jane, Ed. – 1990
This publication outlines approaches librarians may take to begin a literacy program in a public library or a literacy coalition in the community, and provides guidelines for writing a successful literacy grant application to fund the coalition. Ways in which a library may advance literacy and serve patrons for whom English is a second language…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Community Involvement, Cooperative Programs, Grantsmanship
Simmons-Welburn, Janice, Comp. – Spec Kit, 2000
Over the past 10 years, many changes have affected the roles of librarians and other professionals in research libraries. The changes have been caused, in part, by technological advances, reorganizations, more focus on libraries as learning organizations, the use of teams and team-based approaches to tasks, and a recognition of diversity's…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Change, Higher Education, Librarians
Bertot, John Carlo; And Others – 1996
This 1996 National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS) survey gathered data from a national sample of public libraries concerning the current level of public library involvement with the Internet. The purpose of this study was to: (1) provide policymakers, researchers, and library professionals with longitudinal data that…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Costs, Demography, Depository Libraries
Featherstone, Jan Alyce – 1990
The purpose of this study is to look at how the academic library systems office (i.e., an entity or group of entities within a library whose purpose is to oversee the hardware and software systems functions within its electronic automated processes and services for the use of the staff and public) in Ohio has evolved to become a library-wide…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Information Technology, Library Automation
Venditti, Kathryn L. – 1996
The Black Heritage Public Library in Findlay, Ohio was begun by Nina Parker in 1981 to fill the gaps of black representation in American history and literature. The mission of one woman to counter the biased representation in local schools and present African-American history as a crucial piece of American history previously denied to all…
Descriptors: African Culture, African History, Black Culture, Black History