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Peer reviewedHorn, Roger – College and Research Libraries, 1972
As the university or research library grows it loses sights of any objective for existence except existence itself. In the end it collects as much as it can and selects little or nothing. (Author/MM)
Descriptors: Bureaucracy, College Libraries, Information Needs, Library Role
Peer reviewedParson, Willie L. – College and Research Libraries, 1984
Discusses a paradigm for academic librarianship that requires greater sensitivity to and identification with needs of library users. Centrality of library academic community is questioned, noting insistence of librarians on independent status of library and failure of bibliographic instruction programs to make issue of critical thinking top…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Beliefs, Higher Education, Information Needs
Peer reviewedDougherty, Richard M.; And Others – College and Research Libraries, 1989
An article originally published in 1973 discusses the increasingly difficult role of the university library director and identifies factors contributing to the declining status of that position. Recommendations for ameliorating the problem are offered. The introduction discusses the applicability of the article to the current situation of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Administrative Problems, Administrator Effectiveness, Budgeting
