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Dougherty, Richard M. – College and Research Libraries, 1985
Examines the roles and structures of several European national lending systems to find useful models for guiding future developments at home and abroad. Highlights include the current scene, growth of union catalogs, patterns of collection use, new bases for measuring performance, and charting a future course. (18 references) (EJS)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Global Approach, Higher Education, Information Systems
Fjallbrant, Nancy, Ed. – 1976
The 19 papers and three panel discussions on the goals, methods, and evaluation of user education that are presented in this collection draw upon the experiences of librarians of the Scandinavian countries and Great Britain. The principles and practice of user education and its aims and goals in each of the participating nations are presented in…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Consumer Education, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries
McClure, Charles R. – 1981
This report describes a cooperative library project in which a public, a university, and a high school library in Oklahoma collaborated to (1) acquaint high school students, college freshmen, and other area patrons with the library resources available to them in the city of Chickasha; (2) instruct them in the use of library resources; and (3) give…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cooperative Programs, Higher Education, Instructional Materials
Phillips, Linda L. – 1990
This report provides information about "IRIS," a one year interlibrary loan project between the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK), and Vanderbilt University. IRIS, which was sponsored in part by a grant under Title II-D of the Higher Education Act, makes the Vanderbilt library's online catalog available for searching at the UTK…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Facsimile Transmission, Higher Education
Lynch, Beverly P. – 1974
Since college and junior college libraries are imbedded in the organizational framework of the colleges they serve, the perspective of the colleges with regard to educational planning at the national level will bear directly on the library's role in the National Program for Library and Information Services. As educational costs rise and available…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Colleges, Cost Effectiveness, Financial Support
Page, Jennifer, Ed.; Brennan, Patricia, Ed. – 1996
The 125th meeting of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) reviewed the mission statement, goals, and objectives of the Association. Major themes from the review process included the effect of technology on access and preservation; the critical need to develop measures of library effectiveness and performance; and the importance of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Delivery Systems, Electronic Text