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Charles, John – Library Journal, 2010
Baking can be intimidating. Just ask all those contestants on "Top Chef" who would rather prepare Beef Wellington than bake a cake. But libraries can take the fear factor out of baking by putting together a solid collection of cookbooks that can help anyone master the sweeter side of the culinary arts or even serve as delicious armchair reading…
Descriptors: Food Service, Library Services, Cooking Instruction, Foods Instruction
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Fenner, John T.; Fenner, Audrey – Acquisitions Librarian, 2004
The New Thought movement is the focus of an exercise in developing a core collection to support research in a defined subject area. The authors outline the New Thought movement's conceptual and historical development and apply this outline to the selection of library resources. A sample collection development policy is included; such a policy is…
Descriptors: Library Services, Library Materials, Library Policy, Library Development
Lippincott, Kate, Comp.; And Others – 1996
This document presents a "bibliographic timeline" spanning 25 years of the American Library Association (ALA), Office for Literacy and Outreach Services (OLOS). For each year (1968-1996), one or more major activities, resolutions/ALA proceedings, and/or publications involving library service to the disadvantaged are identified.…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Disadvantaged, History, Individual Needs
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Taylor, Rhonda Harris; Patterson, Lotsee – Acquisitions Librarian, 2004
This construct for collection development as it relates to Native American resources utilizes Thomas Mann's "Library Research Methods" (1993) concepts of the Traditional Model, the Actual-Practice Model, and the Principle of Least Effort to organize recommendations for both strategies and resources. The three-pronged hierarchical approach to…
Descriptors: Library Research, Research Methodology, American Indians, Library Services
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1909
Since the organization of the United States Bureau of Education in 1867 statistics of public libraries have appeared periodically in the annual reports. It has been the purpose to gather such statistics every five years, but it has not been possible to carry out the plan with perfect regularity. For forty years every annual report of the bureau…
Descriptors: Educational History, Statistical Surveys, National Surveys, Questionnaires
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Reference & User Services Quarterly, 2001
Presents guidelines developed by RUSA (Reference and User Services Association), a division of the American Library Association, regarding collection development with user liaisons; meeting user needs for medical, legal, or business information; and bibliography preparation that includes a variety of formats such as nonprint materials and Web…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Guidelines, Library Collection Development, Library Services
Illinois Libraries, 1993
Describes a project in Illinois that was developed to establish communitywide capability for intergenerational programming with the library as resource center and advisor that could be used as a model for other libraries. Highlights include collection assessment; collection enrichment; bibliography development; a community workshop; material use;…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Community Programs, Intergenerational Programs, Library Collection Development
Vainstein, Rose; Magg, Marian – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1960
This publication brings together for the first time in a single volume the status of public library standards in the United States. Based on a master's thesis submitted to the Department of Library Science at The Catholic University of America by Mrs. Marian Magg, the study has been brought up to date and also expanded. This bulletin provides not…
Descriptors: Educational History, State Policy, Guidelines, Library Development
Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1958
Never before has a fully informed citizenry been more important to the present and future well-being of the Nation than it is today. And yet, recent investigations have shown that 27 million of our children and adults live in areas without any public library service, and 53 million more have only inadequate book and information services available…
Descriptors: Educational History, Budgets, Bibliographies, Educational Facilities
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Bock, D. Joleen – Community & Junior College Libraries, 1986
This bibliography on community college learning resources centers presents citations on administration, automation, bibliographies, collection development, cooperative activities, facilities, history, humor, instruction and use, college instructional programs, learning laboratories, media technology, miscellaneous services, personnel, philosophy,…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, College Libraries, Community Colleges, Learning Resources Centers
Riley, Cheryl – 1994
The Ward Edwards Library of Central Missouri State University attempts to collect the materials necessary to support classroom needs and faculty research. This assessment gauges how well the library print collection supports the Department of Communication, in which undergraduate majors and postgraduate degrees are offered in a total of 85…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, College Faculty, College Libraries, Communications
Latham, Sheila – 1985
Based on a literature search, surveys of student library needs and library collections, and an evaluation of services available from participating educational institutions and local public and school libraries, it is concluded that library support for students enrolled in distance education programs offered through the Chinook Educational…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Consortia, Costs, Distance Education
Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1963
A 1956 Office of Education study showed that 26 million rural residents were without any public library service and that more than 300 rural counties had no public library within their borders. An additional 50 million rural residents had only inadequate service. Congress passed the Library Services Act in 1956 to stimulate the further development…
Descriptors: Educational History, Operating Expenses, Statistical Data, Counties
Texas State Library, Austin. Div. for the Blind and Physically Handicapped. – 1988
The Texas State Library provides services to persons unable to read standard print due to blindness or other visual impairments, including a wide range of large print materials, braille, and recordings. The library also coordinates a reading machine program incorporating 70 sites in public and academic libraries and provides classrooms with books,…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Bibliographies, Blindness, Braille
Bourdon, Cathleen – Bowker Annual Library and Book Trade Almanac, 1998
Librarian's bookshelf lists books from 1990--covering academic/electronic/public/school/special libraries, administration/personnel, automation, bibliographic instruction, cataloging/classification, CD-ROM, YA services, collection development, copyright, customer service, education for librarianship, electronic libraries, facilities, fund raising,…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Cataloging, Classification, Copyrights
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