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McIntosh, Melinda – Microform Review, 1982
Delineates promotional means by which librarians can stimulate the interest of potential users in microforms. A set of suggestions for making microforms accessible and attractive, using targeted displays and demonstrations, and utilizing media to publicize microform collections is presented. (Author/JL)
Descriptors: Librarians, Library Collections, Library Materials, Microfiche
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Ball, Joyce – Microform Review, 1978
Discusses such aspects of administering microformatted government documents in today's library as attitudes, bibliographic control, space and cost considerations, collection development. (Author/CMV)
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Attitudes, Cataloging, Depository Libraries
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Burke, Pierre – Microform Review, 1982
Suggests that microfilm storage areas can be more efficiently utilized if the unfilled spaces on microfilm reels are consolidated through splicing with microfilm from successive reels. The splicing procedure costs and equipment requirements are briefly discussed. A 17-item reference list on micrographic splicing is attached. (Author/JL)
Descriptors: Librarians, Library Collections, Library Equipment, Library Materials
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Cline, Nancy M. – Microform Review, 1979
Document librarians and the Government Printing Office (GPO) micropublishing program may well prove to be responsible for raising microforms up from their low status in libraries. Librarians must continue the dialogue with micropublishers, equipment manufacturers, government agencies, the GPO, and library users. (Author/CMV)
Descriptors: Depository Libraries, Federal Government, Government Publications, Information Dissemination
Price, Bronson; Holladay, Doris C. – 1971
Based on a survey of college and university libraries conducted in the fall of 1969, this report provides aggregated or summary data for 2,330 libraries or 95.8% of the college and university libraries in the nation. The libraries surveyed accounted for a total expenditure of about $585 million, of which nearly $318 million was paid for salaries…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Librarians, Library Automation, Library Collections
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Boss, Richard W. – Microform Review, 1978
This discussion of the importance of neutralizing negative experiences with microforms before enlarging a library's serial microform acquisitions is adapted from a speech delivered to the second Annual Library Microform Conference in 1976. (CMV)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Attitude Change, Budgets, College Libraries
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Zink, Steven D. – Microform Review, 1983
Identifies format-specific problems which depository and other government publications librarians frequently face as a result of the Government Printing Office's (GPO) micropublishing program. Program preparation and underpinnings, GPO microform storage in libraries, government publications librarians, and the independence of documents collections…
Descriptors: Depository Libraries, Government Publications, Information Storage, Librarians
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Zink, Steven D. – Microform Review, 1982
Discusses a dilemma facing government documents librarians as a result of the multitude and complexity of presently available indexing aids to government publications: how to provide the library users with the means for understanding sophisticated access tools and enhanced collections. A 13-entry reference list is included. (Author/JL)
Descriptors: Federal Government, Government Publications, Indexes, Librarians
Frankie, Suzanne O., Comp.; And Others – 1975
This statistical summary presents data on the library collections, interlibrary loans, expenditures, personnel, and Ph.D. programs from the 99 university and non-university members of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). A separate table describes microform holdings by type. Member libraries are rank ordered on the following 13 factors:…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Librarians, Library Collections, Library Expenditures
Samore, Theodore – 1968
The series of analytic reports on management and salary data of the academic libraries, paralleling the series titled "Library Statistics of Colleges and Universities, Institutional Data," is continued by this publication. The statistical tables of this report are of value to administrators, librarians, and others because: (1) they help…
Descriptors: Administration, College Libraries, Interlibrary Loans, Librarians
Westbrook, Lynn – 1985
This paper provides clarification of issues important to the preservation of paper materials and presents practical steps for any librarian to take in preserving the library collection. In order to deal with a manageable subsection of this complex issue, the paper concentrates on three interrelated aspects of paper preservation: the nature of the…
Descriptors: Books, Cooperative Planning, Librarians, Library Collections
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Eichhorn, Sara – Microform Review, 1984
Outlines five areas to which standards of professionalism to enhance the public service of microform collections must apply: microform management policy; the microforms librarians; physical environment and equipment; bibliographic control and access (microform collection guides); and promotion of microform use (bibliographic instruction). Five…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Information Retrieval, Information Storage, Librarians
Frankie, Suzanne – 1976
This second annual statistical summary presents 1975-1976 data on the library collections, interlibrary loans, expenditures, and personnel of the 105 university and nonuniversity members of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). Separate tables present figures on university enrollment, expenditures, Ph.D. degrees, and microform holdings by…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Doctoral Degrees, Librarians, Library Collections
Byrne, Sherry – 1993
This resource guide provides information about the range of activities that can be implemented to maintain and improve the condition of research collections to ensure that they remain usable as long as possible. After an introduction that describes the major activities and a review of an investigation process that gives an overview of good…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Archives, Audiotape Recordings, Books