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Adams, Loren – 1985
With the availability of state funding, New York State BOCES (Board of Cooperative Educational Services) systems have recently hired school library system coordinators charged with designing policies and procedures for resource sharing among school libraries in the Western New York region. Based on searches of ERIC, LISA, and Library Literature,…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Databases, Information Retrieval, Interlibrary Loans
Download full textMason, Marilyn Gell – 1982
This paper examines library network activity in the United States and the past, present, and future roles of the federal government in nationwide library networking. The first chapter describes the history and development of library networks and defines terms used in the report. An examination of the current status of networks in the second…
Descriptors: Consortia, Federal Aid, Federal Government, Government Role
National Library of Australia, Canberra. – 1979
The proceedings of this 1979 conference on library cooperation begin with proposals for the promotion of resource sharing among the national libraries of Asia and Oceania, the text of a policy statement on the role of national and international systems as approved at a 1976 meeting of directors of national libraries held in Lausanne, and a summary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interlibrary Loans, Library Cooperation, Library Networks
Seidenberg, Edward, Comp.; Gidseg, Mitchell, Comp. – 1981
This publication provides a detailed look at the regional public library system for 1981 and presents detailed funding, programming, and staffing information on Texas library systems for use by librarians, trustees, and system staff. Collected from personal contacts and documents and based on certain assumptions or knowledge, the data are intended…
Descriptors: Budgets, Charts, Graphs, Library Expenditures
Wisconsin State Dept. of Public Instruction, Madison. Div. of Library Services. – 1980
Devoted to long range planning for library services, this issue of the Wisconsin Library Bulletin reviews population profiles, economic indicators, social and governmental concerns, trends in education, and current surveys and needs assessments to formulate planning for Wisconsin Library Services over the next five years. Goals and objectives are…
Descriptors: Library Automation, Library Cooperation, Library Facilities, Library Networks
Howder, Murray L. – 1979
The first Soviet-American Library Seminar provided general comparisons and contrasts, similarities and dissimilarities, between Soviet and American libraries, and stressed the differences in understanding library terms, the need for long-range planning, demographic changes and their effect on library services, and library automation. An…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, International Programs, Library Administration, Library Education
Serov, V. V. – 1979
The mechanics of the Soviet library system, the availability of libraries to the citizenry, organizational components, and the development and planning principles of librarianship as they follow Leninist national policy are discussed in this paper by V.V. Serov, Head of the Main Library Directorate, USSR Ministry of Culture. A program of library…
Descriptors: Centralization, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, Information Dissemination
Central Oklahoma Economic Development District, Shawnee. – 1975
An overview is provided of the Central Oklahoma Economic Development District (COEDD) library system, which serves seven counties. A general analysis of COEDD's background and purpose is followed by demographic and economic data for the area. An inventory of present library facilities and activities is presented along with a comparison with state…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, County Libraries, Evaluation, Library Cooperation
McDonald, John P. – 1974
The efforts of university libraries in the United States to develop and implement rational plans are exemplified by the activities of the Association of Research Libraries, originator of various plans for library cooperation including the Farmington Plan and the National Program for Acquisitions and Cataloging. Another example of effective…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Information Systems, Interlibrary Loans, Library Automation
Eisner, Joseph; Crane, Stanley – 1965
This survey, performed under the authority of the New York State Library Services Plan Act, Project 30, 1964-1965, was conducted to determine the System's reference needs, including book, personnel and building requirements. Emphasis was to be placed on Rockland County and its libraries, and these requirements were to be related to the development…
Descriptors: Financial Support, Librarians, Library Materials, Library Networks
Peer reviewedLowman, Shirley A. – Community & Junior College Libraries, 1987
Describes the lengthy process of planning for library/media automation at the nine community college sites comprising the Maricopa Community College District, Arizona. Examines the computing environment and existing communications network which made this automation possible. (Author/DMM)
Descriptors: College Libraries, Community Colleges, Computers, Library Automation
Peer reviewedFarrell, David – Library Resources and Technical Services, 1986
Describes why and how the North American Collections Inventory Project (NCIP) involving three Indiana research libraries was implemented; how cooperative decisions and planning are proceeding as a result of the project; and benefits and drawbacks of the project. Comments on future are offered as NCIP begins Phase Three. (6 references) (EJS)
Descriptors: College Libraries, Higher Education, Library Administration, Library Associations
Peer reviewedBennett, Scott – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1984
Reports on initiatives being taken by the Association of Research Libraries, University of Pittsburgh, Research Libraries Group, and Center for Research Libraries in response to development of collection management in academic librarianship, and comments on issues emerging from these initiatives--use documentation, cooperation, and paperless…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Futures (of Society), Higher Education, Library Acquisition
Lass, Andrew – 1997
A simplified account of an extensive library automation and networking project that the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation initiated and funded in the Czech and Slovak republics is provided in this paper. The proposal to establish "The Czech and Slovak Library Information Network" (CASLIN) commenced in January 1993. Storage, document…
Descriptors: Change, Foreign Countries, Government Role, Information Networks
Almada de Ascencio, Margarita – UNESCO Journal of Information Science, Librarianship and Archives Administration, 1982
Outlines the background of the library system at the Autonomous National University of Mexico (UNAM) and presents an account of the programs which have been developed in support of the library infrastructure and the Universal Availability of Publications (UAP) program, in particular the development of the LIBRUNAM automated retrieval system.…
Descriptors: Budgets, Centralization, College Libraries, Databases
