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Breeding, Marshall – Library Journal, 2009
In a year where the general economy presented enormous challenges, libraries continued to make investments in automation, especially in products that help improve what and how they deliver to their end users. Access to electronic content remains a key driver. In response to anticipated needs for new approaches to library automation, many companies…
Descriptors: Library Automation, Corporations, Vendors, Computer Software
Matarazzo, James M.; Pearlstein, Toby – Library Journal, 2007
Corporate librarians hold the key to determining new ways to work within their environments. They must drive the process to change the view of the company library as a liability--as overhead, as a cost center, as part of the problem--to the library as a solution center, a necessary investment. For the sixth consecutive year, corporate libraries…
Descriptors: Institutional Evaluation, Special Libraries, Internet, Information Scientists
Freedman, Jenna – Library Journal, 2006
Chris Dodge, a renowned alternative pressologist and the librarian at "Utne" magazine, has been known to say, "Every library should be a special library." In order to meet this challenge, the librarians at Barnard College decided to start a collection of underground publications known as zines. In this article, the author describes how librarians…
Descriptors: Librarians, Special Libraries, Electronic Libraries, Library Services
Savage, Noel – Library Journal, 1973
Statements exerpted from documents presented at the second regional hearing of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science held in San Francisco are included. (Author/KE)
Descriptors: Law Libraries, Libraries, Library Education, Library Networks
Hamel, Dorothy – Library Journal, 1973
Las Vegas is home to a variety of public, special and school libraries. A directory is provided to encourage ALA librarians to visit them during the 1973 convention. (DH)
Descriptors: Libraries, Library Collections, Library Cooperation, Library Networks
Forcier, Peggy – Library Journal, 1988
Describes the Pacific Northwest Conspectus Database, a regional resource assessment tool which includes information about library collections in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington. Use of the database by academic, public, and special librarians to better manage their collections and to coordinate planning and purchasing with other…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Databases, Interstate Programs, Library Acquisition
DiMattia, Susan S.; Blumenstein, Lynn C. – Library Journal, 1999
Discusses virtual libraries in corporate settings from the viewpoint of five special librarians. Highlights include competitive advantage, space and related collection issues, the use of technology, corporate culture, information overload, library vulnerability and downsizing, and the importance of service over format. (LRW)
Descriptors: Competition, Corporate Libraries, Corporations, Electronic Libraries
Orne, Jerrold – Library Journal, 1972
In this, the sixth year of recording academic library building data, it is possible to begin a yearly appraisal of change, progress or decline by comparison with the five-year base data published last year. (Author/NH)
Descriptors: College Libraries, Data Analysis, Learning Laboratories, Libraries
St. Lifer, Evan – Library Journal, 1996
Discusses results of a survey conducted by "Library Journal" to ascertain to what degree librarians' jobs were evolving and why. Highlights include the major influence of technology; experiences of a reference librarian at the University of California at Berkeley; and professional and support staff perspectives at academic, public, and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Change, Higher Education, Job Analysis
Williams, Wilda W. – Library Journal, 1998
Provides an annotated bibliography of 42 books that rank as the library profession's most outstanding literature published between January 1997 and March 1998. The list is organized by the following categories: academic libraries; archives/preservation; cataloging/technical services; children's services; collection development; general library…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Annotated Bibliographies, Archives, Cataloging
Cylke, F. Kurt – Library Journal, 1972
This is the first in a series of articles describing the many aspects of the community of libraries which has been coalescing under the aegis of the Federal Library Committee. (Author)
Descriptors: Budgeting, Federal Government, Government Libraries, Library Expenditures
Durrance, Joan C. – Library Journal, 1989
This study examined the influence of (1) the setting of the reference interview on the interaction and (2) accuracy and the librarian's behavior on the success of the reference interview. Tables display correlations between the interpersonal, interviewing and listening, and searching skills of the librarian with the patron's willingness to return…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Correlation, Interviews, Library Research
Berry, John N., III – Library Journal, 1990
Describes the role of Silvia Watson as information executive of the Highsmith Company, a supplier of office equipment and other materials to the library market. Watson's position in the organizational hierarchy, library services at Highsmith, company policies and products, and the role of the library in the company are discussed. (MES)
Descriptors: Corporate Libraries, Information Management, Librarians, Library Role
Havens, Shirley E.; And Others – Library Journal, 1987
The third annual survey on use of audio- and videocassettes in public, academic, and special libraries covered: (1) collection size; (2) budget support; (3) sources for selection and acquisition; (4) fees and publicity; and (5) problems. It was concluded that audio- and videocassettes and libraries are inextricably linked. (MES)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Audiotape Cassettes, Library Collections, Library Surveys
Nugent, Amy Boaz; And Others – Library Journal, 1994
Presents views of eight library jobs considered to be among the most desirable based on an informal poll of over 50 librarians. Directors of public libraries, the Librarian of Congress, state librarians, special librarians, and reference librarians are profiled, and a list of 22 additional desirable jobs is included. (LRW)
Descriptors: Employment Opportunities, Librarians, Library Directors, Library Schools
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