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Download full textLougee, Wendy Pradt – 2002
Research libraries are taking on a range of new roles in the digital age as they become more deeply engaged in the creation and dissemination of knowledge. While some of these roles are extensions of traditional library activity, others are large new. This book explores some of these emerging functions, and includes several examples of how more…
Descriptors: Information Dissemination, Information Technology, Library Collection Development, Library Development
Peer reviewedCheng, Grace – Australian Library Journal, 2000
Discusses information ecology and changes in information management and provision. Concentrates on trends towards evidence-based practice in health care, challenges posed and opportunities offered by information technology, resource limitations and users' and management's perceptions and expectations, roles librarians can play, and core…
Descriptors: Change, Health Services, Information Dissemination, Information Industry
Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Network Development and MARC Standards Office. – 1992
The papers in this proceedings describe similarities and differences in state libraries and examine the state library role in local, regional, and national network development and in the dissemination of information to various client segments. The papers are: (1) "The Commonalities of State Library Agencies" (Barrat Wilkins); (2)…
Descriptors: Databases, Information Dissemination, Internet, Library Development
Peer reviewedAllen, Matthew; Retzlaff, Lothar – Australian Library Journal, 1998
The authors envisage a new future for libraries, one in which they assume a very proactive role, pushing, as well as pulling information back into the Web, in a manner similar to that in which a private electricity producer feeds back surplus power into the grid as well as taking electricity when needed. (Author)
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Futures (of Society), Information Dissemination, Information Services
Direct linkAustralian Library Journal, 2006
This submission represents the views of a newly formed organisation known as Public Libraries Australia. Formed to aggregate the political, service and infrastructure capacity of Australia's 1510 (ABS June 2000) public libraries, Public Libraries Australia will support and represent public libraries on a national basis. Networked across Australia…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Foreign Countries, Library Associations, Library Role
Helal, Ahmed H., Ed.; Weiss, Joachim W., Ed. – 1997
The 25 papers presented at this symposium focus on the future of libraries and library services in an ever evolving Information Age. The papers deal with topics such as: economic and political issues in determining the future of the professionally managed library; adding value to library services; the need for librarians and library educators who…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Electronic Libraries, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedShuler, John A. – Journal of Government Information, 1996
Discusses the Government Printing Office (GPO) Electronic Information Access Enhancement Act of 1993, which shifted the Federal Depository Library Program's emphasis from local collections building to the Superintendent of Documents and the GPO, and outlines implications of this shift from collection building to citizen information service.…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Depository Libraries, Federal Government, Information Dissemination
Emery, Mark W. – 1989
This paper is a call for academic and public libraries to contemplate their role in meeting the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) information needs of their patrons. Librarians are urged to consider the potential negative consequences of neglecting to provide up-to-date and representative collections of AIDS materials. It is suggested…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Health Education, Health Materials
Office of Educational Research and Improvement (ED), Washington, DC. – 1992
The United States Department of Education, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Library of Congress, the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, and the National Institute for Literacy have formed the AMERICA 2000 Library Partnership to support libraries in their work toward the six National Education Goals announced by…
Descriptors: Childrens Libraries, Elementary Secondary Education, Information Dissemination, Learning Resources Centers
Andrews Univ., Berrien Springs, MI. James White Library. – 1995
The strategic plan for the James White Library of Andrews University uses the phrase "beyond walls," rather than the catchphrase "library without walls," to acknowledge that printed matter is here to stay but that the paradigm in which it operates is open to innovation and exploration. The fundamental changes taking place in…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Buildings, Facility Expansion
