This research explores the application of implicit personalisation techniques in information retrieval in the context of education. Motivated by the large and ever-growing volume of resources in digital libraries, coupled with students' limited experience in searching for these resources, particularly in translating their information needs into…

The survey data on Colorado's academic libraries is organized by sector (i.e., public or private) and board (e.g., University of Colorado, State Board of Agriculture, Colorado Community College and Occupational Education System). There are library-by-library statistics and summary figures for boards and sectors. Full-time equivalent (FTE) student…

This cumulation provides access to historical statistics of research libraries in the United States and Canada, not including non-university members of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). The publication has been produced from a computerized data file and incorporates corrections to the annual editions of ARL statistics. An explanatory…

This report contains the responses of the constituent institutions of the State University of New York to library questionnaires distributed by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, and by the New York State Education Department, for Fall 1978 and Fall 1979. Included in the statistical tables are data on library collections, staff, and…

A survey was conducted to examine staffing, budgets, and collection size at the libraries of Florida's 28 community colleges. Though the survey achieved a 100% response rate, not every college responded to all questions. Inconsistencies in the ways in which and the periods for which data were collected made comparisons difficult. These limitations…

The National Center for Education Statistics has tabulated common library data elements and then related them to relevant institutional variables to provide the first analysis of college and university library trends in over a decade, and to supplement annual biennial reports of academic library statistics. Seven surveys provided the information…

The 105 institution libraries of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) now have over 238 million volumes in their collections, employ 35,000 personnel, and spent over $625 million in 1976-77 to support their programs. Additional data presented in this report include (1) statistical tables for each member concerning its collections,…

Describes the library instruction program at the University of California Santa Barbara, which uses a team-teaching method to cope with reduced staff and increased enrollment, collection, and teaching responsibilities. The benefits include a sense of departmental teamwork, improved student library literacy, and faculty and student goodwill. (EAM)

This Library Information Network for Community Colleges (LINCC) collection assessment provides detailed data for bibliographic records of monographs in the LINCC database of library/learning resource (L/LRC) collections of Florida's 28 public community colleges. Data were analyzed by five broad subject groupings and 47 individual subject…

In its proposal of May 1968 to the U.S. Office of Education for a Higher Education Comprehensive Facilities Planning Grant, the State of Maine Commission on Higher Education Facilities outlined several activities that it wished to undertake. On approval of the grant, the Commission engaged the Institute for Educational Development (IED) to conduct…

Describes organization of California's community colleges, their funding levels, and ravages of Proposition 13. Effects of inadequate institutional financial support on community college libraries, particularly on print materials budgets, are reviewed. Administrative organizational changes that are currently being considered are discussed as a…

These proceedings contain the papers of the International Conference e-Learning 2013, which was organised by the International Association for Development of the Information Society and is part of the Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (Prague, Czech Republic, July 23-26, 2013). The e-Learning 2013 conference aims to…

Data on aspects of Alabama's private and public higher education are presented, including current enrollment, first-time entering students, revenues and expenditures, tuition and required fees, average faculty salaries, degrees conferred, and libraries. Enrollment data are tabulated by general characteristics, fall enrollment trends since 1978,…

This document presents statistical data for higher education in North Carolina for the 1991-92 academic year. The data were obtained from forms mailed to individual institutions. The tables are grouped under 11 headings the first of which is enrollment. This section presents data on headcount by institution, class, level of instruction, sex, age…