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Viehland, Dennis, Comp. – 1981
A list of rare, and often unique, facilities in the western part of the United States is presented that is designed to serve as a resource for researchers. The list of facilities is a guide to what uncommon equipment, centers or institutes, and collections are available at western higher education facilities and what provisions exist for sharing…
Descriptors: Arts Centers, Educational Facilities, Equipment, Higher Education
Anderson, Beth G., Ed. – 1996
Many institutions of higher education in the United States and Canada support their teacher education programs by developing curriculum materials centers (CMCs) which feature instructional materials representative of those found in preschool through high school settings. This directory lists and describes the CMCs or collections at 278…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Information Sources
Wilson, Lucy, Comp. – 1989
This manual begins by providing background on the program, collection, and acquisition processes of the Raymond Walters College (RWC) Learning Resources Center. The next section describes collection development policies for: (1) the academic departments (Animal Health; Behavioral Sciences; Biology; Business and Economics; Chemistry; Dental…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Higher Education, Learning Resources Centers, Library Acquisition

Academe: Bulletin of the AAUP, 1979
The development of the Humanities Research Center (housing one of the largest collections of twentieth century literature) at the University of Texas at Austin is described. The efforts of Harry Huntt Ransom in building the special collections, the financing of purchases, and present challenges the center must meet are explained. (BH)
Descriptors: College Libraries, Educational History, Financial Policy, Higher Education
Bickle, Craig – 1996
This study examines whether a recommended list of videos and a video display in a community college library cause the circulation of these items to increase, as previous research has shown. During a 10-week pretest period, the circulation of a sample of the videos in the 800s section of the Educational Resources Center at the Columbus State…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Community Colleges, Higher Education, Learning Resources Centers

Welwood, Ron J. – Canadian Library Journal, 1982
Presents a set of management indicators intended to serve as guidelines for establishing realistic goals and priorities by learning resource center administrators at British Columbia's colleges and institutes of higher education. Five tables summarize the standards and the method for applying the standards is outlined. (Author/JL)
Descriptors: Colleges, Guidelines, Higher Education, Learning Resources Centers

Spang, Lothar; Tucker, Deborah – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1995
Ten years ago Wayne State University (WSU) libraries assimilated the university's media services unit. An analysis of its present facilities, services, collections, goals, and cost-recovery elements demonstrates the full-service WSU media center is a cost-effective, integral part of WSU library service. (Author/AEF)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cost Effectiveness, Higher Education, Information Technology
Barbakoff, Sondra – 1999
This paper describes the present shelf arrangement of instructional materials in the Curriculum Materials Center (CMC) located in Swirbul Library on the Garden City, Long Island campus of Adelphi University. The CMC is a special library resource supporting the curriculum of the School of Education at Adelphi, and graduate and undergraduate…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Bookstores, Classification, Higher Education
Mulliner, K.; Lee, Hwa-Wei – 1985
There is a role, and even a responsibility, for academic libraries in the United States in cooperating with students, scholars, colleagues, institutions, and governments in Third World nations. For example, the international library internship program, in which professional librarians at the middle-management level spend three to six months…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Asian Studies, Developing Nations, Global Approach
California Univ., Riverside. Library. – 1981
This report on the University of California at Riverside Library presents an overall description of the UCR library system and each of its functions, its relationship to the university it serves, and its regional and national ties, as well as a statement of the assumptions and principles underlying its plans and objectives for the coming decade.…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Higher Education, Learning Resources Centers, Library Administration
Fuller, Florine Smith – 1976
An investigation to determine the administrative and organizational role of the library in nonprint media programs in institutions of higher education in Tennessee was carried out using the survey and interview method. The findings showed that one-third of the responding libraries did not have and were not planning a comprehensive collection of…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Audiovisual Centers, College Libraries, Higher Education

Scherdin, Mary Jane – College and Research Libraries, 1984
Following a brief survey of relevant literature on concept of learning materials center (LMC), this article describes the innovative approach to LMC organizational design recently adopted at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. It features a joint administrative structure and shared staffing between university library and college of education.…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Advisory Committees, College Libraries, Curriculum Study Centers

Abbott, George L. – Library Trends, 1985
Discusses developments in video-based information systems, including interactive and digital videodisc, videotex, satellite broadcasting, and expanded uses of videocassettes and cable television in interactive mode. Highlights include role of academic library media centers, videodisc and optical discs, videotex, other video-based information…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Audiovisual Aids, Higher Education, Information Systems
Houlihan, Bettyjean – Curriculum Review, 1978
From a review of research and of standards set by national teacher education associations, guidelines are presented for a curriculum library or laboratory serving a teacher education program. Functions, collections, budget, audiovisual equipment, materials selection aids, staffing, and administration are considered. (SJL)
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, College Libraries, Curriculum Study Centers, Evaluation Criteria

Agee, Jim – TechTrends, 2003
Considers ways to use electronic books (E-books) to involve students in literature. Highlights include E-book technology; costs; digital content; acquiring versus accessing information in libraries; title availability; storage capacity; sources of E-book content, especially Web sites; downloading software and E-books; sources for current,…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Software, Costs, Downloading