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Lietzau, Zeth – Online Submission, 2009
The use of interactive web technologies on public library web sites in the United States has been a topic of much discussion in recent years, and a shift in certain types of user services is underway. Terms like "Web 2.0" and even "Library 2.0" have become common in library literature and at conferences as those on the early…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Technology Uses in Education, Internet, Web Sites
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Cahoy, Ellysa Stern; Williamson, Susan G. – School Library Media Research, 2008
In 2005, the American Association of School Librarians' Independent Schools Section conducted a national survey of independent school libraries. This article analyzes the results of the survey, reporting specialized data and information regarding independent school library budgets, collections, services, facilities, and staffing. Additionally, the…
Descriptors: Private Schools, School Libraries, Library Administration, Budgets
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Weiner, Sharon Gray – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2003
Libraries are affected by discontinuous change caused by the type and rapidity of technological innovations. By examining the theories of structuration, diffusion of innovation, and contingency, change in libraries can be better understood, thus easing its adoption and assimilation. There is a need to reconceptualize libraries. (Author)
Descriptors: Change, Communication Research, Information Technology, Information Theory
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Dougherty, Richard M. – College and Research Libraries, 1987
Describes the characteristics of and relationship between academic libraries and campus computing centers, and presents reasons to support the argument that the two organizations will continue to have distinct, though closely related, identities. Several issues that universities will have to address to formulate a campus-wide information policy…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Centralization, Costs, Higher Education
Snyder, Thomas D.; Hoffman, Charlene M. – 1991
This document, consisting of 7 chapters, 35 figures, 395 tables, plus 22 appendix tables, provides statistical data on most aspects of United States education, both public and private, from kindergarten through graduate school. The chapters cover the following topics: (1) all levels of education; (2) elementary and secondary education; (3)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Education, College Faculty, Degrees (Academic)
Snyder, Thomas D.; Hoffman, Charlene M. – 1993
This document, consisting of 7 chapters, 34 figures, 412 tables, plus 20 appended tables, provides statistical data on most aspects of U.S. education, both public and private, from kindergarten through graduate school. The chapters cover the following topics: (1) "All Levels of Education"; (2) "Elementary and Secondary…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Education, College Faculty, Degrees (Academic)
Snyder, Thomas D.; Hoffman, Charlene M. – 1991
This document, consisting of 7 chapters, 35 figures, and 380 tables, provides statistical data on most aspects of United States education, both public and private, from kindergarten through graduate school. The chapters cover the following topics; (1) all levels of education; (2) elementary and secondary education; (3) postsecondary, college,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Education, Degrees (Academic), Dropout Rate
Snyder, Thomas D.; Hoffman, Charlene M. – 1992
This document, consisting of 7 chapters, 35 figures, 409 tables, plus 20 appendix tables, provides statistical data on most aspects of United States education, both public and private, from kindergarten through graduate school. The chapters cover the following topics: (1) all levels of education; (2) elementary and secondary education; (3)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Education, College Faculty, Degrees (Academic)