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Download full textDaval, Nicola, Ed. – 1987
Presentations on NCIP (North American Collections Inventory Project) program developments and future program directions are combined with business meeting minutes in this report from the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). The text of remarks presented as part of a panel discussion on the program theme includes: (1) "Development and Use…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cataloging, Conferences, Library Associations
Chronicle of Higher Education, 1994
The 108 university research libraries with the largest collections and 11 public and special libraries with large research holdings are listed. Data include rank (universities only), numbers of volumes, volumes added in 1991-92, current serials, permanent staff, and total expenditures in 1991-92. University libraries' total operating expenditures…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Library Collection Development, Library Collections
Peer reviewedSchool Libraries in Canada, 2001
Includes 15 articles that relate to Canadian children's literature, including the power of literature; using Canadian literature in Canada; the principal's role in promoting literacy; Canadian Children's Book Centre; the National Library of Canada's children's literature collection; book promotion; selection guide; publisher's perspective; and…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Library Collection Development
Powell, Lora Thompson, Ed.; Stewart, Jasmine, Ed. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1997
Presents data on number of volumes, volumes added in 1995-96, current serials, permanent staff, and total expenditures of university and non-university research libraries in the United States and Canada. Also charts operating expenditure percentages for salaries, books and monographs, serials, and other materials and expenses. (MSE)
Descriptors: Books, College Libraries, Expenditures, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedFichter, Darlene – Library Hi Tech, 1999
Describes the various digital collections and some of the challenges faced by the early digital project initiatives of the Saskatchewan school, special, public, and academic libraries. An appendix lists the digital projects by theme (history, news, sports, culture, first nations and metis, and literature). (AEF)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Reed-Scott, Jutta – 1988
The Association of Research Libraries' Office of Management Services (OMS), working with the Research Libraries Group, Inc. (RLG), began the North American Collections Inventory Project (NCIP) in July 1983 as a cooperative effort intended eventually to involve research libraries throughout the United States and Canada. The project's long-term goal…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Bibliographic Databases, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Peer reviewedSchool Libraries in Canada, 2002
Includes 21 articles that discuss collection development in Canadian school libraries. Topics include digital collections in school library media centers; print and electronic library resources; library collections; collaborative projects; print-disabled students; informing administrators of the importance of collection development; censorship;…
Descriptors: Administrators, Censorship, Computer Networks, Disabilities
de Usabel, Frances; Roeber, Jane A. – 1992
This manual, written primarily for Wisconsin public librarians, is designed to provide practical assistance to those who wish to expand public library collections of American Indian (defined as people in the United States and Canada who trace their lineage to the original habitants of these lands) resources and to improve related library programs…
Descriptors: American Indian Literature, American Indians, Annotated Bibliographies, Audiovisual Aids
