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Witt, Steven – Library Quarterly, 2013
Amid growing isolationism after World War I, the American Library Association transferred its wartime programs to train librarians in Europe and promote the American model of public libraries. Working in collaboration with American philanthropists and members of the French library community, ALA established a permanent library school in Paris that…
Descriptors: Library Services, Public Libraries, Foreign Countries, Professional Associations
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Nicholson, Scott – Library Quarterly, 2013
Games and other forms of play are used in today's libraries to attract underserved patrons, to introduce patrons to other library resources and services, and to facilitate engagement between library patrons. While many perceive gaming as a new library service, gaming services have been part of librarianship since the nineteenth century through…
Descriptors: Games, Toys, Puzzles, Library Services
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Hider, Philip – Library Quarterly, 2008
An application of the contingent valuation method (CVM) for estimating the economic value of a regional public library service is described, and some of the key methodological issues surrounding CVM and other stated preference techniques are discussed with reference to library use and funding contexts. Given the range of valuations that can result…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Foreign Countries, Library Services, Computation
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Julien, Heidi; Hoffman, Cameron – Library Quarterly, 2008
The purposes of the study were to explore the role of Canada's public libraries in developing the public's information literacy (IL) skills, to explore current IL training practices, and to explore the perspectives and IL experiences of individuals who visit public libraries to access the Internet. This article documents the second phase of a…
Descriptors: Library Personnel, Public Libraries, Foreign Countries, Information Literacy
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Thompson, Bruce; Kyrillidou, Martha; Cook, Colleen – Library Quarterly, 2008
The present study was conducted to explore library users' desired service quality levels on the twenty-two core LibQUAL+ items. Specifically, we explored similarities and differences in users' desired library service quality levels across user groups (i.e., undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty), across geographic locations (i.e.,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Library Services, North American English, Users (Information)
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Ellis, Richard D. – Library Quarterly, 1999
Discusses the trade union library system in China that has fallen on hard times amid economic and social changes of the past 20 years. Focuses on a history of the trade union library movement; services provided by trade union libraries; problems faced by union libraries; and reform of trade union libraries. (AEF)
Descriptors: Change, Foreign Countries, Information Services, Library Development
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Ting, Lee-hsia Hsu – Library Quarterly, 1983
Explores problems concerning operation of Chinese libraries from 1949 to present, discussing library services in four periods--1949-57, 1958-65, 1966-76, and 1976-81--to illustrate how development of Chinese libraries has been affected by political, economic, and cultural conditions. A brief chronological context and 72 references are included.…
Descriptors: Chinese Culture, Cultural Influences, Economics, Foreign Countries
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Maack, Mary Niles – Library Quarterly, 1993
Shows how l'Heure Joyeuse, a children's library started in Paris in 1923 as a gift from U.S. philanthropists, became a model of open-access, user-oriented public libraries. L'Heure Joyeuse's unique role in the development of public libraries in France from before 1900 to the present is described. (41 references) (EAM)
Descriptors: Childrens Libraries, Foreign Countries, History, Librarian Attitudes
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Dalton, Pete; McNicol, Sarah – Library Quarterly, 2004
Evaluation in Library and Information Services has traditionally focused on quantitative measures of input and output. This trend has been generally reflected in the emerging efforts relating to the evaluation of electronic information services (EIS). Less well developed are qualitative approaches to evaluation of EIS. Issues that feature high on…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Lifelong Learning, Evaluation Methods, Information Services
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Krikelas, James – Library Quarterly, 1982
Reviews the efforts made over the last 30 years to stimulate improvements in the education of librarians in Greece, emphasizing the causes for the shortcomings in the present situation as they relate to the Greek educational system and the current pattern of staffing libraries. A 19-item reference list is included. (Author/JL)
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Librarians
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Laugesen, Amanda – Library Quarterly, 2006
This article is an exploration of the relationship between Australian soldiers and wartime libraries in the First and Second World Wars. It examines the way soldiers, as readers, used a variety of libraries, including those of charitable organizations, the education libraries organized by military authorities, and the libraries formed in Prisoner…
Descriptors: Libraries, Library Services, Foreign Countries, War
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Garrett, Jeffrey – Library Quarterly, 2004
Library home pages and digital library sites have many properties and purposes in common with the Baroque wall-system libraries of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe. Like their Baroque antecedents, contemporary library Web sites exploit the moment of entrance and the experience of the threshold to create and sustain the illusion of a…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Electronic Equipment, Electronic Libraries, Foreign Countries
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Vincent, Ida – Library Quarterly, 1984
This study of public library employees' perceptions of library goals based on one case study reveals that staff hold generally conservative views of public library purpose and prefer goals that are print-based and directly related to reading. Most significant influences on perceptions are local practice and practical considerations. (24…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Foreign Countries, Interviews, Library Personnel
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Moran, Barbara B. – Library Quarterly, 2005
Prior to 1997, the University of Oxford in Great Britain had approximately one hundred autonomous libraries with little coordination of services, collection development, or management among them. In that year a new director was hired with the mandate to integrate many of these libraries into one centralized system. Over the past seven years…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Library Services, Change Strategies, Organizational Change
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Olden, Anthony – Library Quarterly, 2005
The Tanganyika Library Service (TLS) was the national public library service set up in Tanzania, East Africa, in the 1960s. By the end of the decade, it was generally regarded as a model of Western-style public library development in Africa. This is an account of its establishment and early years based on accessible documentary sources in Tanzania…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Library Development, National Programs, Public Libraries