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Peer reviewedLili, Wang – World Libraries, 1996
Reviews public library services in the People's Republic of China since 1949. Describes the Shanghai Library, the second largest library in China; the Shanghai system's three level network (municipal, district or county, and street or town) of public libraries which provides for resource sharing, librarian training, professional activities, and…
Descriptors: Childrens Libraries, Foreign Countries, Library Education, Library Networks
Anderson, Mary Sieminski – Computers in Libraries, 1991
Summarizes issues raised at the 1991 spring conference of the Association of College and Research Libraries/New England Chapter (ACRL/NEC) concerning computer networks and libraries. Highlights include national information policy; library resources and services; developments at the National Agricultural Library (NAL); ILLINET; resource sharing in…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Futures (of Society), Government Role, Library Networks
Kellerstrass, Amy Louise Sutton, Ed. – Illinois Libraries, 1989
Describes a long range program for library development in Illinois utilizing Library Services and Construction Act funds. For each area of development, the discussion covers the identification of needs, activities to meet needs, and criteria for funding. Policies and procedures for funding applications are also reviewed. (CLB)
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Financial Support, Library Networks, Library Planning
Peer reviewedBiggs, Bonnie; Whitehorse, David – Special Libraries, 1995
Discusses the history of Indian libraries established on small Southern California reservations. Relates both challenges and opportunities facing tribal populations and governments (as well as the San Diego County Library System) as they developed collaborative library relationships with the American macro- culture and established their place as…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Reservations, Library Cooperation, Library Networks
Peer reviewedMahoney, Brian D. – Community & Junior College Libraries, 2000
States that several states are establishing networks for resource sharing. Florida offers these resources through the Florida Distance Learning Library Initiative, Wisconsin has BadgerLink and WISCAT, TexShare provides library resource sharing in Texas, and Louisiana has LOUIS and LLN. These are some of the states successfully demonstrating…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Electronic Libraries, Integrated Library Systems, Library Cooperation
Peer reviewedGapen, D. Kaye – Journal of Library Administration, 1987
Reviews the role of library networks in improved access to resources, increased productivity, and cost effectiveness. The impact of electronic information on these functions is discussed, and strategies for effectively networking electronic information are presented. (1 reference) (CLB)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Change Strategies, Cooperative Planning, Cost Effectiveness
Jones, Adrian – 1989
Librarians' work has become more challenging and complex over the past 15 years. Fifteen years ago, the telephone was a librarian's most used and most effective instrument, and librarians mostly relied on the resources within their own walls. In that era, resource sharing placed substantial burdens on larger libraries, and the resources of smaller…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Information Dissemination, Interlibrary Loans, Library Collections
Download full textMcGee, Rob – 1998
This paper discusses changes in services, technology, and organization as libraries prepare to enter the "network-centric library world." Part 1 addresses the transition from the analog era to the digital age, and the convergence of libraries and education, including opportunities for library leadership in Internet access, digital…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Foreign Countries, Information Technology, Internet
Sloan, Bernard G. – Library Administration & Management, 1992
Discusses the impact of decreases in revenues on the resource-sharing activities of ILLINET Online and the Illinois Library Computer Systems Organization (ILCSO). Strategies for successfully coping with fiscal crises are suggested, including reducing levels of service and initiating user fees for interlibrary loans and faxing photocopied journal…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Facsimile Transmission, Financial Problems, Interlibrary Loans
Peer reviewedZeeman, Johann; MacKinnon, Dennis – Internet Research, 1993
Presents a network design and development plan for a flexible, distributed client-server network of resource sharing libraries in Illinois. The plan's development in phases, design constraints and alternatives, migration strategy, and components are explained. Application of the model to other statewide or regional networks is suggested. (Contains…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Computer System Design, Information Networks, Interlibrary Loans
Peer reviewedWilliams, Delmus – Journal of Educational Media & Library Sciences, 1998
Presents a view of interlibrary cooperation as practiced, discussing the organizational components of successful cooperation, the history and current state of cooperation, and the future of cooperation in American libraries. Uses as one example, OhioLINK, a statewide consortium of academic libraries designed to move materials between Ohio…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Consortia, Futures (of Society), Institutional Cooperation
Louisiana State Library, Baton Rouge. – 1986
The long-range program presented in this document results from the combined efforts of the State Library staff, the Library Services and Construction Act (LSCA) Administrative Librarian, Louisiana librarians, the Library Development Committee of Louisiana, and a number of other formal and informal planning groups within the state. The program…
Descriptors: Information Needs, Information Services, Libraries, Library Cooperation
Louisiana State Library, Baton Rouge. – 1985
This long-range program results from the combined efforts of the State Library staff, the Library Services and Construction Act (LSCA) Administrative Librarian, Louisiana librarians, the Library Development Committee of Louisiana, and a number of other formal and informal planning groups within the state. The program includes: (1) an assessment of…
Descriptors: Information Needs, Information Services, Libraries, Library Cooperation
Louisiana State Library, Baton Rouge. – 1987
This long-range program results from the combined efforts of the State Library staff, the Library Services and Construction Act (LSCA) Administrative Librarian, Louisiana librarians, the Library Development Committee of Louisiana, and a number of other formal and informal planning groups within the state. The program includes: (1) an assessment of…
Descriptors: Information Needs, Information Services, Libraries, Library Cooperation
Peer reviewedLinden, Margaret J. – Special Libraries, 1989
Describes the process by which librarians at the Chevron and Gulf Oil Corporations managed the merger of corporation libraries and developed a framework for a company-wide library network. The discussion covers corporate policies for information exchange, shared resources, and cost control, and examines factors that led to the success of the…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Coordination, Corporate Libraries, Cost Effectiveness
