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Two Librarians, an Archivist, and 13,000 Images: Collaborating to Build a Digital Collection
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Hunter, Nancy Chaffin; Legg, Kathleen; Oehlerts, Beth – Library Quarterly, 2010
Colorado State University Libraries has been creating digitized collections, primarily from its Archives and Special Collections unit, since 2000. These projects involved collaboration among Archives, Cataloging, and Digitization; the most recent and ambitious project, digitizing 13,000 historical images of the university dating from the 1880s…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Cooperation, Archives, Library Development
Starting Small, Dreaming Big: The OSLIS Project Brings Resources Statewide.
Claus-Smith, Diane – MultiMedia Schools, 1999
Describes the development of the grant-funded Oregon School Library Information System (OSLIS), a project design to provide cost-effective access to online resources in school libraries across the state. Notes that online database provides offer substantial discounts for group acquisition of their products which has prompted the development of…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Consortia, Cooperative Planning, Cooperative Programs
Empowering the Patron: Redesigning Interlibrary Loan Services.
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Preece, Barbara G.; Logue, Susan – Journal of Library Administration, 1996
Describes three projects implemented by the Southern Illinois University at Carbondale's library that are designed to empower the patron: (1) patron-initiated borrowing; (2) Interlibrary Loan Link on FirstSearch databases; and (3) implementation of Web-based interlibrary loan request forms. Explains the role of institutional support and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Cooperative Planning, Databases
Information Power: Guidelines for School Library Media Programs. A Discussion Guide.
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Jay, M. Ellen; And Others – 1988
The most recent set of national guidelines for the development of school library media programs, which was published in 1988, identifies underlying changes in the roles of the school library media specialist as well as in the program itself. Viewing the library media specialist as an initiator of curricular activities rather than a purveyor of…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Cooperative Planning, Curriculum, Elementary Secondary Education
Improving Access to Periodicals: A Cooperative Collection Management Project.
Kachel, Debra E. – School Library Media Quarterly, 1996
The Lancaster County (Pennsylvania) public library, which receives many school districts' interlibrary loan requests, experienced a 100% increase in periodical article requests. Working cooperatively, school and public librarians developed a LSCA Title II grant to study magazine usage to make cost-effective decisions about improving timely access…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Cooperative Planning, Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making
Learning Resources, Part II.
Callison, Daniel – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 2003
Discusses collaborative planning for inquiry between teachers and library media specialists. Highlights include instructional media specialists; roles of teachers and library media specialists; curriculum development; learning resources; access over ownership; resource budgets; best practices for managing learning resource collections; and a…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Budgets, Cooperative Planning, Curriculum Development