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Martin, Susan K., Ed.; Butler, Brett, Ed. – 1975
Eight papers are included in this report of the Preconference Institute on Library Automation, June 1973. Papers addressing automation in user services, cataloging systems, acquisitions systems, and personnel are presented. Other papers focus on a review of the trends in library automation and computer technology, innovative strategies in systems…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Cataloging, College Libraries, Conference Reports
Naval War Coll., Newport, RI. – 1969
Participants at the workshop met in groups with assigned discussion leaders and reported on the following aspects of libraries: Command and staff libraries, academic libraries with staffs of 11 or more, academic libraries with staffs of less than ten, and research and technical libraries. Each group made recommendations for improved library…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Conference Reports, Government Libraries, Library Services
Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. – 1976
The minutes of the October 21-22, 1976 meeting of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) include the texts of two presentations: "Our Cultural Heritage: Whence Salvation?" by Louis B. Wright and "The Uses of the Past" by Gordon N. Ray. Reports given during the business meeting include those from the Librarian of Congress, the ARL executive…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Annual Reports, College Libraries, Committees
Download full textAssociation of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. – 1970
Topics of discussion during the program portion of this meeting are: "Research Library Security Problems,""Security Measures at the University of Washington Libraries,""Research Libraries and Machine-Readable Information,""Opportunities for Minority Groups in Research Libraries," and "The Berkeley…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Conference Reports, Library Associations, Library Automation
Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. – 1971
Three topics of prime interest to research libraries are discussed during the program portion of these minutes: microforms, national serials data program, and the financial problems of research libraries. The presentations regarding microforms are the "The ARL Microform Project: A View from Within" and "Controlling the…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Conference Reports, Financial Problems, Library Associations
Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. – 1970
The two major topics of the program portion of the meeting are automation and management. Allen B. Veaner's "Major Decision Points in Library Automation" is followed by notes from a brief discussion. Stanley E. Seashore presented main themes from "Staff Participation in Management," which is also followed by discussion remarks…
Descriptors: Administration, College Libraries, Conference Reports, Libraries
Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. – 1972
All of the program elements of this meeting related to the theme of new opportunities for research libraries. Speakers and discussion groups ranged over topics as diverse as the emerging technology of telecommunications and the continuing movement among academic librarians to improve their status, both with the college and university on the one…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Computers, Conference Reports, Interlibrary Loans
Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. – 1974
The minutes of the May, 1974, meeting of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) contain the texts of five presentations about Canadian research libraries. Descriptions of the National Library of Canada, the National Science Library, and Canadian University Libraries and their associations are followed by a discussion of the problems…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Conference Reports, Economics, French
Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. – 1974
The January, 1974, meeting of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) focused on "Changing Objectives in Research Libraries." Two speakers--Hugh Atkinson, Director of Libraries at the Ohio State University, and Richard Boxx, Director of Libraries at the University of Tennessee--discussed client definitions of library objectives,…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Conference Reports, Databases, Library Administration
Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. – 1973
The program elements of this meeting focus on what research libraries are doing in response to opportunities to meet challenges of changing educational trends, the threats of shifting financial bases, and improved techniques in management and operation. The following presentations were made under the general heading "Changing Technology:…
Descriptors: Administration, Change Agents, College Libraries, Conference Reports
Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. – 1977
The minutes of the October 26-27, 1977 meeting of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) include the texts of the following presentations on collection development and analysis in research libraries: "A Faculty View of Library Collection Development," Harry J. Dell; "Issues Encountered in the Collection Analysis Project,"…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Annual Reports, College Libraries, Committees
Sellen, Betty-Carol, Ed.; Karkhanis, Sharad, Ed. – 1968
The purpose of this institute was to consider the ways in which various phases of interlibrary cooperation could be developed in a large and geographically scattered system composed of many once autonomous units which have developed independently up to the present. Attending the institute were librarians from the City University of New York and…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Conference Reports, Library Cooperation, Library Facilities
Gore, Daniel, Ed. – 1976
All of the contributions in this volume, except the last, were presented at a conference sponsored by the Associated Colleges of the Midwest, held in Chicago, April 17-18, 1975. Entitled "Touching Bottom in the Bottomless Pit," the conference was intended to open a national debate on space, growth, and performance problems of…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Citation Indexes, College Libraries, Conference Reports
Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. – 1975
At the meeting of the Association of Research Libraries in Chicago, the principal program element focused on the future of card catalogs, a topic of special concern to large research libraries, whose catalogs are becoming cumbersome, expensive to maintain, and complicated by changes in cataloging rules. Papers by William Welsh and John Rather of…
Descriptors: Card Catalogs, Cataloging, College Libraries, Conference Reports
Anderson, LeMoyne W., Ed. – 1974
Papers from an institute on the university's role in information networks are presented. Two introductory papers define networks in general and consider reasons for their existence in academic libraries. Five papers describe operational networks: Ohio College Library Center (OCLC), Stanford's BALLOTS system, the Minnesota Interlibrary Teletype…
Descriptors: Cataloging, College Libraries, Conference Reports, Databases
