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McKay, Devin – Community & Junior College Libraries, 2011
This article describes a library renovation project in a community college that involved using existing space and reorganizing it to support the way students learn both individually and collaboratively. The article also looks at the importance of the academic library as place.
Descriptors: College Libraries, Community Colleges, Two Year Colleges, Higher Education
Mongeau, Deborah; Stringer-Hye, Richard – 1991
This report describes the planning and design process for the University of Rhode Island Library's new map room, which was undertaken as part of a library expansion and renovation program. The first of the report's three major sections describes how equipment was selected for the map room and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of three…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Facility Improvement, Higher Education, Library Collection Development
Czerniejewski, Marilyn – 1993
This project is a historical study of the Duns Scotus Library in Sylvania, Ohio. The library serves Lourdes College, a four-year, co-ed liberal arts college run by the Sylvania Sisters of St. Francis on the grounds of their motherhouse. The library originally served the sisters of the convent and the postulants who studied there as high school…
Descriptors: Church Related Colleges, College Libraries, Higher Education, Interviews
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Sapp, Gregg; Suttle, George – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1994
Describes an effort to quantify annual collection expansion and shelf space capacities with a computer spreadsheet program. Methods used to quantify the space taken at the beginning of the project; to estimate annual rate of collection growth; and to plot stack space and usage, volume equivalents and usage, and growth capacity are covered.…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Computer Oriented Programs, Data Collection, Data Processing
Neale, Marilyn – 1993
A historical overview of the Pontifical College Josephinium and the A. T. Wehrle Memorial Library from 1888 to 1993 is presented. This is the only pontifical college outside Rome, Italy. Pontifical status reverses the tradition of local control by the bishop of the diocese. The college supports a curriculum of liberal arts and the School of…
Descriptors: Church Related Colleges, College Libraries, Higher Education, Library Development
Miller, John V., Jr. – 1992
In 1965, as the University of Akron (Ohio) was approaching its centennial, it was decided to create two archival programs. One was the University Archives, which preserves records and other items dealing with the history and development of the institution. A different approach, but one that was closely intertwined with the University Archives, was…
Descriptors: Archives, College Libraries, Data Collection, Educational History
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Atkinson, Ross – New Directions for Higher Education, 1995
Advances in information technology are forcing librarians and administrators to reinvent scholarly information exchange. The old question of what constitutes a research collection remains, but is transferred to a new medium. This is an opportunity to take advantage of the new possibilities and to correct some previous mistakes in collection…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, College Libraries, Educational Trends, Higher Education
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Farber, Evan – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1999
Examines how the role of academic libraries and librarians has changed drastically since the early 1970s. Suggests that the recognition of the educational role of librarians today is a result of the convergence of the widespread success of bibliographic instruction and the impact of electronic sources of information.(AEF)
Descriptors: College Libraries, Higher Education, Information Services, Information Technology
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Stoffle, Carla J.; Williams, Karen – New Directions for Higher Education, 1995
Successful higher education institutions of the next century will be learning-centered; successful college libraries will become teaching libraries that equip students with lifelong learning skills; librarians of the future will be knowledge managers. Libraries must become user-centered, which will require a substantial initial investment that…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Educational Economics, Educational Finance, Higher Education
Pavel, D. Michael – 1992
Two recent studies clarify the growing importance of tribal college libraries in the overall tribal effort to educate Indian people. Cheryl Duran (1991) applied Flamholtz's organizational development model to the role of libraries in the development of tribal colleges. During the new venture, expansion, professional, and consolidation stages,…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indians, College Libraries, Community Colleges
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Engle, Michael O. – Library Trends, 1995
Discussion of the development of undergraduate libraries focuses on Harvard's Lamont Library. Topics include financial issues, including sources of revenue, computerization, and personnel costs; technological changes, including hypermedia and the virtual library; and organizational changes, highlighting the merger of libraries at Cornell…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, College Libraries, Higher Education, Hypermedia
Barnes, Susan J. – Computers in Libraries, 1993
Summarizes users' opinions of a networked electronic library at Cornell University's Mann Library as part of the planning process for a major redesign. The system's impact on library collection development, preservation, technical services, information services and delivery, instruction, and computer support are described; and plans for library…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Computer Networks, Databases, Electronic Libraries
Freytag, Jurgen – International Forum on Information and Documentation, 1994
Presents results of a report on development trends in librarianship and schools of library and information science in the Neue Bundeslander of the Federal Republic of Germany. Discusses political, economic, and technical factors; cites specific changes in public, union, university, scientific, and special libraries; and reviews trends in library…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Economic Factors, Higher Education, Information Science Education
Howard, Patricia – 1995
Very little has been written about Bible college libraries in the United States, even though they have been in existence since the early 1880s. This study presents the history of Cincinnati Bible College Library, tracing its development from its inception in 1928 over the years and showing how it has followed the mission statement of its parent…
Descriptors: Biblical Literature, College Libraries, Higher Education, Library Administration
Piccininni, James – 1993
Guidelines are given for automating a library. Issues arising in automation are illustrated through the experience of the Doherty Library of the University of St. Thomas, Houston (Texas). The first step is to decide what type of system is right for the needs of the library and its patrons. In considering vendors of systems, it is important to…
Descriptors: Budgeting, College Libraries, Computer Software Selection, Cost Effectiveness
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