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Schmidt, Aaron – Library Journal, 2010
What do a pink door, reading glasses, a website, and a Beetle Kill Pine ceiling have in common? Yes, readers will find them all in this collection of great design in libraries. But the reason they're featured is their important commonality: they were intentionally and thoughtfully placed in a library to meet people's needs or otherwise engage…
Descriptors: Library Development, Library Materials, Library Services, Public Libraries
Kuzyk, Raya – Library Journal, 2007
To the individual, garden areas link to the natural world, offering solace, refuge, inspiration, and purpose. To a low-income neighborhood, where often the only greenery sprouts from between cracks in concrete, their impact can be monumental, signaling sustainability, beautifying, attesting to value and worth--even prompting civic change. A 2000…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Gardening, Horticulture, Environmental Influences
Crawford, Paula J.; Thompson, Judith A. – Library Journal, 1979
Describes the method and circumstances which allow for free online searches at the California State College-Stanislaus Library. Discussion includes reviewing search requests, feeless flexibility, and cost effectiveness. (JVP)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Case Studies, Indexing, Information Retrieval
Shaffer, Kenneth R. – Library Journal, 1971
Excerpts from a new book by Kenneth R. Shaffer entitled Decision Making; A Seminar in Public Library Management." (Author)
Descriptors: Administration, Administrative Problems, Case Studies, Decision Making
Sager, Donald J. – Library Journal, 1973
A case study of one metropolitan Library's experience with cable television communications is reported in this article. (Author)
Descriptors: Cable Television, Case Studies, Educational Television, Information Services
Rubin, Richard – Library Journal, 1984
Relates experiences of public library in dealing with request for circulation records of inmate residing in county jail. Library policy, law and the prosecutor, preparing defense for refusal to comply with request, public relations, consequences of court appeals, and making the decision to comply with subpoena are discussed. (9 refernces) (EJS)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Compliance (Legal), Confidential Records, Confidentiality
Friedenwald-Fishman, Eric; Dellinger, Laura K. Lee – Library Journal, 2006
Public will--which effectively positions libraries as the critical educational, social, cultural, and recreational resource they so clearly are--goes beyond better promotion, clearer communication, or more partnerships to infect the people in a community with the bug to act on their notion that libraries are good and to turn belief into action.…
Descriptors: Public Opinion, Libraries, Community Support, Outreach Programs
Rogers, Michael – Library Journal, 2005
This article was sent into a column of "Library Journal" entitled "How Do You Manage?" Submissions to this column, are based on actual events in libraries across the United States and Canada. This particular piece describes a conversation between two library employees, where one, following a recovery from a devastating auto accident found…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Librarians, Case Studies, Interpersonal Relationship