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Federal Library Committee, Washington, DC. – 1966
To achieve their mission, Federal libraries have at least four basic responsibilities: (1) to collect and organize pertinent recorded information, in whatever form required, to meet managerial, research, educational, informational and other program responsibilities; (2) to provide ready access to their materials and to assist users in locating…
Descriptors: Administration, Government Libraries, Information Dissemination, Information Needs
Comptroller General of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1973
The General Accounting Office reviewed Federal libraries, i.e., executive agency libraries, in Metropolitan Washington to identify problems common to the libraries and to determine how they are being handled. The review revealed that: a central depository could provide numerous benefits; microforms are not used substantially; central direction is…
Descriptors: Administration, Centralization, Copyrights, Federal Government
Department of the Interior, Washington, DC. Office of Library Services. – 1970
The annual workshop was established in order to make the expertise of each library available to the rest of the approximately 70 interior libraries. The 1969 Workshop was held in Denver, Colorado from September 29 to October 3. Some of the subject areas discussed include: (1) career development problems in the Department of the Interior library…
Descriptors: Administration, Cataloging, Decentralization, Government Libraries
Federal Interagency Field Librarians Workshop, Washington, DC. – 1972
The thrust behind the necessity for these workshops was the apparent interdependence of libraries having mutual problems and solving these problems by close cooperation and communication. The workshops have outlined agency programs and policies; emphasized better agency-wide service; promoted efficiency and economy of operations; encouraged…
Descriptors: Administration, Agencies, Budgets, Cataloging
National Library of Canada, Ottawa (Ontario). – 1974
Utilizing questionnaires, interviews, observations and the study of documents, four survey teams studied 193 federal libraries in Canada, excluding prison, hospital, and diplomatic post libraries. The four teams, consisting of government and nongovernment personnel, covered four topics: library organization and administration, staffing,…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrative Organization, Bilingualism, Government Libraries
Fischer, Audrey; Cole, John Y.; Tarr, Susan M.; Carey, Len; Mehnert, Robert; Sherman, Andrew M.; Davis, Linda; Leahy, Debra W.; Chute, Adrienne; Willard, Robert S.; Dunn, Christina – Bowker Annual Library and Book Trade Almanac, 2003
Includes annual reports from 12 federal agencies and libraries that discuss security, budgets, legislation, digital projects, preservation, government role, information management, personnel changes, collections, databases, financial issues, services, administration, Web sites, access to information, customer service, statistics, international…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Administration, Annual Reports, Budgets