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Mills, Gladys H. – 1975
A questionnaire was sent to all librarians on the Council of State Governments' state legislative reference librarians list and the directors of state library agencies in an effort to provide a data base for future studies and the development of standards in specific areas of legislative reference operations. Replies were received from 48 states.…
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Law Libraries, Library Automation, Library Cooperation
Goodrum, Charles E. – 1978
The Congressional Research Service, founded in 1914, is staffed by 542 research specialists who provide information services solely to the legislative function of the United States Government. The Congressional Reference Division and seven subject divisions--American Law Division, Economic Division, Education and Public Welfare Division,…
Descriptors: Federal Government, Information Centers, Information Needs, Information Retrieval
Kozlowski, Ken – 1995
This study initiated service request sheets, evaluated reference services provided by the staff of the Cleveland Law Library (Cuyahoga County, Ohio) for the time period April-September, 1995. Five thousand and fifty-two questions were included in the study, of which 2,949 were of the type in which reference service was provided. The other 2,103…
Descriptors: Competence, Information Retrieval, Information Services, Law Libraries
Estes, Mark E. – Library Journal, 1998
Discusses the challenges confronting law libraries in this age of technology. Highlights include physical storage space; transformation of the library environment; search and retrieval challenges; law library/librarian profile; librarian/publisher partnerships; and the future roles of technology and library services. (AEF)
Descriptors: Change, Information Retrieval, Information Storage, Information Technology
Kleiner, Jane P., Ed. – 1982
Included in this collection of papers from the Louisiana Library Association's Academic Section 1982 Micro Symposium are (1) an overview of the history and changing role of academic libraries by Jane P. Kleiner; (2) "Afro-American Literature and the Contemporary Publishing Industry," a paper by Dorothy Davis which discusses the present state of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Authors, Black Literature, College Libraries
Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Information Systems Office. – 1975
SCORPIO (Subject Content-Oriented Retriever for Processing Information On-line), a set of computer programs developed by the Library of Congress for use by the Library Library's staff, is described. Intended as a users guide for those not trained in data processing, this document presents the system's general characteristics together with a…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Citations (References), Computer Programs, Data Processing