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Connaway, Lynn Silipigni, Comp. – OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., 2015
The contributions in this volume represent a decade of OCLC's user behavior research findings that articulate the need for the design of future library services to be all about the user. Highlights include: (1) People associate the library with books and do not consider the library in relation to online resources or reference services; (2) People…
Descriptors: Library Services, User Needs (Information), User Satisfaction (Information), Library Research
Shank, Russell; And Others – OCLC Newsletter, 1988
Five articles provide overviews of information networking activities at the University of California at Los Angeles, the University of Kentucky, the University of Maryland at Baltimore Health Sciences Library, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Carnegie Mellon University. (MES)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Information Networks, Online Catalogs
Zeidner, Nancy I., Comp. – 1976
This Systems and Procedures Exchange Center (SPEC) kit compiled by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) contains documents pertaining to bibliographic access in ARL libraries. Data collected in a 1975 SPEC user services survey are presented in two tables to illustrate new, eliminated, and planned services in ARL libraries and methods of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Cataloging, Higher Education
Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. Office of Management Studies. – 1980
This Systems and Procedures Exchange Center (SPEC) kit examines the current state of online services based upon the experiences of a select number of Association of Research Libraries (ARL) member libraries in the United States and Canada. Many of the kit documents were obtained during a survey of eight private institutions conducted for Duke…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Library Expenditures
Online, Inc., Weston, CT. – 1988
Reprints of 17 articles presenting strategies and tips for searching databases online appear in this collection, which is one in a series of volumes of reprints from "ONLINE" and "DATABASE" magazines. Edited for information professionals who use electronically distributed databases, these articles address such topics as: (1)…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Computer Graphics, Computer Software
Online, Inc., Weston, CT. – 1988
Reprints of 20 articles pertaining to the topics of end-users and public access appear in this volume, which is one in a series of volumes of reprints from "ONLINE" and "DATABASE" magazines. Edited for information professionals who use electronically distributed databases, these articles address such topics as: (1) managing a…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Computer Graphics, Computer Simulation
Online, Inc., Weston, CT. – 1987
Reprints of 19 articles pertaining to library microcomputing appear in this collection, the second of two volumes on this topic in a series of volumes of reprints from "ONLINE" and "DATABASE" magazines. Edited for information professionals who use electronically distributed databases, these articles address such topics as: (1)…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Artificial Intelligence, Bibliographies, Computer Software
Busch, B. J. – 1985
This SPEC (Systems and Procedures Exchange Center) kit is based partially on the results of a fall, 1984 survey of the 117 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) members to determine the extent to which they have reorganized staff and the role played by automation in planning organizational change. Particular attention was paid to the integration…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cataloging, Higher Education, Library Administration
Valauskas, Edward J., Ed.; Vaccaro, Bill, Ed. – 1992
This annual collection contains 16 papers about the use of Macintosh computers in libraries which include: "New Horizons in Library Training: Using HyperCard for Computer-Based Staff Training" (Pauline S. Bayne and Joe C. Rader); "Get a Closet!" (Ron Berntson); "Current Periodicals: Subject Access the Mac Way"…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Computer Networks, Computer Software, Electronic Libraries
Valauskas, Edward J., Ed.; Vaccaro, Bill, Ed. – 1991
This annual collection contains the following 14 papers about the use of Macintosh computers in libraries: "Of Mice and Macs: The Integration of the Macintosh into the Operations and Services of the University of Tennessee, Memphis Health Science Library" (Lois M. Bellamy); "Networking Reference CD-Roms in the Apple Library"…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Computer Networks, Computer Software, Desktop Publishing
Hardesty, Larry, Ed. – National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, 2007
While the library is at the center of many campuses physically, it is often an overlooked and underused resource in improving the learning and success of first-year college students. Librarians, classroom faculty, administrators, and higher education researchers come together to explore the potential of the library in shaping the student…
Descriptors: Assignments, Higher Education, College Freshmen, Change Agents