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Download full textLittle (Arthur D.), Inc., Cambridge, MA. – 1967
This evaluation was conducted to review library service to Massachusetts state institutions and to examine levels of present or potential cooperation among all types of libraries. Based on interviews and questionnaires, the study is divided into three areas: resources for all types of libraries, service to state institutions, and library service…
Descriptors: Centralization, Disabilities, Institutions, Interlibrary Loans
Fang, Josephine Riss – 1980
This paper focuses on cataloging and classification, which are the most time consuming of library operations, requiring highly trained staff and involving considerable expense, to provide an overview of the concepts and considerations for centralized cataloging and interlibrary loans. Centralized cataloging is defined as a cooperative arrangement…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Centralization, Classification, Computer Oriented Programs
Schwartz, Eugene S.; Saxe, Henry I. – 1969
This study of resource sharing among public libraries was made possible by six library systems in northern Illinois. With the organization of the library systems and development of interlibrary loan services and other cooperative activities, the problem of extending resource sharing among member libraries and between library systems arose. Several…
Descriptors: Automation, Cataloging, Centralization, Feasibility Studies
Stevens, Rolland E. – 1973
The present interlibrary loan system will need to be better organized and expanded to include centralized regional centers in order to meet the increasing volume of requests. Presently about 70% of 10 million requests are being successfully filled within regional and local systems. Two major problems of the present system are (1) unequal…
Descriptors: Centralization, Feasibility Studies, Federal Aid, Interlibrary Loans
Heim, Kathleen M. – 1976
Cooperative library programs in Great Britain began with suggestions made in the 1915 Adams report commissioned by the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust. Following the report's recommendations and with grants from the trust, countries began library services to rural areas and the Central Library for Students (CLS) was formed and later became a…
Descriptors: Centralization, College Libraries, County Libraries, Decentralization
Little (Arthur D.), Inc., Cambridge, MA. – 1967
A survey of library service in Vermont, financed with Library Services and Construction Act funds, was conducted in two parts: (1) an examination of the procedures used by the Free Public Library Service in its role as the focus of interlibrary cooperation in Vermont and an evaluation of library resources in the state and (2) an evaluation of…
Descriptors: Administration, Automation, Blindness, Centralization
Line, Maurice B.; And Others – 1981
This set of papers presented to the Collections and Services Division of the International Federation of Library Associations at its 47th annual conference (1981) includes: "Planning Interlending Systems in Developing Countries," by Maurice B. Line; "Problems of Centralisation of Inter-Library Lending in a De-Centralized Library…
Descriptors: Centralization, Comparative Analysis, Contracts, Developing Nations
