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Download full textYang, Chunhua – 2001
The purpose of this study was to compare the quality of information service provided in Swedish and Chinese medical libraries and to judge the information gap between China and Sweden. Two libraries of key Chinese medical universities and a Swedish medical library were selected for the study. Based on the number of databases, print journals,…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Comparative Analysis, Evaluation Criteria, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedFidzani, B. T.; Oladokun, O. S. – Library Review, 2001
Describes a study of Institutes of Health Sciences (IHS) libraries in Botswana that determined the state of the collections and services and examined how well the libraries provided complements to classroom-based student learning and to lecturers' research. Results showed that college library standards were not met and recommends strategies for…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Improvement
PDF pending restorationDowns, Robert B.; Heussman, John W. – 1969
A 1969 survey of 50 leading American and Canadian university libraries collected data in the following categories: resources, personnel, finances, space, public services, administration, and professional school libraries. This summary report provides extensive tabular data in five broad categories: (1) summary tables; (2) institutional rank; (3)…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Higher Education, Law Libraries, Library Administration
Bowden, Virginia M.; And Others – 1985
The results of a project comparing the nursing monograph collections of academic health science center libraries in the Southwest are reported. Records for nursing monographs from the TALON (South Central Regional Medical Library Program) Union Catalog of Monographs from 1977-1983 were analyzed to reveal the distribution by year, publisher, and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cataloging, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education
Compton, Jennifer L. – 1995
This study examines a random sample of academic health sciences libraries across the United States to determine if these institutions have three-dimensional medical artifacts in their collections and how they organize and catalog these materials to provide access to them. A questionnaire was sent to heads of cataloging at 30 academic health…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Cataloging, Higher Education
Greene, Deborah L. – 1991
A study was undertaken to document the impact of reductions in state appropriations on the libraries of Texas public institutions of higher education from Fiscal Year 1986 through Fiscal Year 1990 and to make recommendations for improving these libraries. Data were collected through a letter requesting information from each of the public general…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Educational Finance, Higher Education, Law Libraries
Diambra, Henry M.; And Others – 1975
VIDAC (Video Audio Compressed), a new technology based upon non-real-time transmission of audiovisual information via conventional television systems, has been invented by the Westinghouse Electric Corporation. This system permits time compression, during storage and transmission of the audio component of a still visual-narrative audio…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Communications Satellites, Delivery Systems, Educational Media
