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Keenan, Stella – Library Journal, 1982
This description of experiments with the use of videotex systems in British public libraries includes activities and undertakings sponsored by the British Library Research and Development Department, commercial and public videotex services in the U.K., and videotex projects initiated by library associations such as ASLIB. (JL)
Descriptors: Community Information Services, Information Services, Library Personnel, Library Research
Cayton, Colleen – Library Journal, 1981
Describes a 10-state energy/environment information and referral service for the Rocky Mountain energy impacted region. The report presents details of funding, resources, and techniques for the provision of this service. (RAA)
Descriptors: Community Information Services, Energy, Information Dissemination, Information Services
Rugh, Archie G. – Library Journal, 1976
The document entitled "A Commitment to Information Services," prepared over a period of two years by the Standards Committee of the Reference and Adult Services Division (RASD) of the American Library Association, and now formally adopted by the Division Executive Board, is a better disappointment. (Author)
Descriptors: Information Services, Library Services, Library Standards, Reference Services
Martin, Susan K. – Library Journal, 1978
A discussion of the questions addressed, and the questions ignored by the June 1977 report of the Network Advisory Group of the Library of Congress on a national bibliographic network. (Author/KP)
Descriptors: Information Services, Library Services, National Programs, Networks
Carter, Jimmy – Library Journal, 1980
Presents the text of the report's transmittal message by the President to the Congress. It stresses the importance of libraries, identifies specific responsibilities of the federal government, characterizes the needs of the disadvantaged, and encourages the use of new information techniques. (RAA)
Descriptors: Government Role, Information Services, Library Role, Library Services
Childers, Thomas – Library Journal, 1971
Unless a limited set of specific goals is pursued with diligence, the local library may find itself running off in all directions at once, trying to satisfy every library-related need of a very heterogeneous "community." (16 references) (Author)
Descriptors: Community, Information Needs, Information Services, Libraries
Croneberger, Robert, Jr.; Luck, Carolyn – Library Journal, 1975
Functions and operations of information and referral services both within and outside of the library. (LS)
Descriptors: Community Information Services, Community Organizations, Library Services, Public Agencies
Vavrek, Bernard – Library Journal, 1976
Contains the text of the American Library Association Reference and Adult Services Division's guidelines entitled "A Commitment to Information Services." (PF)
Descriptors: Guidelines, Information Services, Library Associations, Library Services
Rettig, James – Library Journal, 1981
Librarians should expend less effort on debates about fees for services; instead they should seek to provide those services in the fairest possible manner. Cooperation with vendors, administrators, politicians, and others offers an opportunity to minimize through special subsidies the costs of the services to individual users. References are…
Descriptors: Fees, Information Needs, Information Seeking, Information Services
Donohue, Joseph C. – Library Journal, 1975
Describes and evaluates a public library information and referral service. (PF)
Descriptors: Community Information Services, Information Centers, Library Services, Public Libraries
Benton, Charles – Library Journal, 1985
This first of three articles describing implementation of 1979 White House Conference on Library and Information Services resolutions covers leadership role of National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, needs of underserved, organizations and professions, international activities, public/private sector interaction, statistics and…
Descriptors: Conferences, Federal Legislation, Information Needs, Information Services
Zurkowski, Paul G. – Library Journal, 1981
Reviews the historical development of libraries and the evolution of the information industry to describe the impact of information technology upon libraries. Opportunities for librarians are illustrated by practical suggestions for transition from a library to an information context. (RAA)
Descriptors: Business, Information Services, Information Systems, Librarians
Tenopir, Carol – Library Journal, 2005
Do vendor reps provide librarians with the information they need in the way they need it? Do vendors feel they are communicating effectively with their librarian clients? A recent survey of North American and European academic librarians commissioned by Jim McGinty, vice chair of Cambridge Information Group, and carried out by consultants David…
Descriptors: Vendors, Information Services, Consortia, Audiences
Jones, Clara – Library Journal, 1976
The harsh realities public libraries must face include the low esteem in which cities are held, city-dwellers' doubt of themselves, shrinking financial resources, and decreased readership. (Author/PF)
Descriptors: Community Information Services, Library Services, Outreach Programs, Public Libraries
Berry, John – Library Journal, 1975
Reports on the Conference on Information and Referral Service in Public Libraries held in Detroit on May 7-9, 1975. (PF)
Descriptors: Community Information Services, Conference Reports, Federal Aid, Federal Programs
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