This issue of "Illinois Libraries" contains the papers delivered at a 1974 workshop on government publications in microform. Twelve articles focus on such issues as: 1) reasons to collect microforms; 2) criteria for selecting microform documents; 3) microform hardware and software; 4) procurement procedures; 5) bibliographic control; and…

Describes a project of the Association of College and Research Libraries to compile a union list of microforms dealing with the classical, medieval, and Renaissance periods. Goals of the project, questionnaire development, survey response, and questions raised by the project are discussed. The union list, including 101 titles and 45 libraries, is…

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…

Presented are results of a survey which collected statistics for 1973-74 library operations in the 82 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) academic library members. Data tables cover the following categories: (1) collections; (2) interlibrary loans; (3) expenditures; (4) personnel; (5) microform holdings; and (6) rank orderings for each of…

In 1980, a study was conducted for the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) by Information Systems Consultants (ISCI) which led to the establishment of the ARL Microform Project. Based on a three-part survey, to which a total of 848 academic, government, public, and special libraries responded, the ISCI study covered: (1) general microform…

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…

This monograph presents phase two of a project initiated in January 1977 to examine the treatment of state documents in the 51 official state depository libraries in Texas. Each depository was sent a detailed 73 items questionnaire investigating that library's handling of state documents in the following areas: document acquisition, program…

This compilation of statistics from 68 historically black college and university (HBCU) libraries presents individual, total, and ranked order summaries of library statistical information for: (1) the numbers of volumes in the libraries; (2) volumes added gross; (3) total current serials; (4) microform holdings; (5) materials expenditures; (6)…

A 1979 Systems and Procedures Exchange Center (SPEC) survey investigated the development, management, and staffing of microform collections in Association of Research Libraries (ARL) member institutions. Survey results indicate that the major types of microform holdings are government publications, large publishers' sets, and back runs of…

This final report presents the results of a survey conducted during 1989-90 which investigated the preservation needs of Florida's academic and public libraries. Data were collected via mail questionnaires sent to 516 libraries and a series of follow-up visits to 22 of the 374 libraries (72.5%) which responded to the survey. Information elicited…

As a result of a lack of information about the preservation of library and archives materials in Massachusetts libraries and records repositories, a survey was conducted to determine the preservation needs of public, academic and special libraries (including museums), manuscript repositories, historical societies and town clerks' offices. The…

This report presents data compiled from the 117 libraries that were members of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) during the 1982/83 academic year, as well as an examination of data for trends in expenditures for the previous 15 years from the 75 academic libraries that were members throughout those years. Information includes data from…

This report presents data compiled from the 113 libraries that were members of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) during the 1981/82 academic year, as well as an examination of trends in ARL university libraries from 1975-76 through 1981-82. It is noted that the most important change in 1982 was the smaller rise in serials expenditure and…

Based on the questionnaire used annually by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), this publication is a compilation of 1978-79 statistics from 98 non-ARL libraries located in U.S. or Canadian universities. It is noted that each university is one designated as a research or doctorate-granting university by the Carnegie Commission on Higher…

Based on 33 responses to mailed questionnaires, visits to selected regional depositories, and the author's personal experience as a regional depository librarian, this report analyzes the interpretation and implementation by the Superintendent of Documents, state library agencies, and depository libraries of key provisions of the Depository…