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Download full textBoucher, Virginia; Fayad, Susan – 1988
A study was performed for the Colorado State Library to assess the current status of resource sharing--i.e., interlibrary loan (ILL), reference referral, and document delivery--among Colorado librarians, for the purpose of creating a benchmark for evaluating current services and for making recommendations for improvements in these areas. Four…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Interlibrary Loans, Library Expenditures, Library Networks
Bertot, John Carlo; McClure, Charles R.; Fletcher, Patricia Diamond – 1997
The purpose of this study was to obtain descriptive information about the nation's public library connectivity, use, and costs related to the Internet. The study gathered data from a national sample of public libraries from the period between May and July 1997. Unlike the 1994 and 1996 students, the 1997 study drew a new library sample that…
Descriptors: Costs, Government Role, Information Policy, Information Services
Soete, George J., Comp. – SPEC Kit, 1998
This survey was conducted to discover how extensively ARL (Association of Research Libraries) libraries are involved in formal, active programs of collaboration for collections management. Seventy ARL libraries completed a questionnaire focusing on all collections formats and a number of related collections management activities. Results indicated…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Consortia, Higher Education, Library Administration
Kester, Diane Katherine Davies – 1990
The successful inclusion of school library media centers in fully articulated networks involves considerable planning and organization for technological change. In this study a preliminary model of the stages of school system participation in library networks was developed with the major activities for each stage identified. The model follows…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Information Networks, Learning Resources Centers
Griffiths, Jose-Marie; King, Donald W. – 1989
This comprehensive state-wide study of library systems in New York state describes them and analyzes the way they are working; compares that to the intent of library laws and regulations and to the needs of state residents for library services; and recommends changes where a need for them is indicated. (Three types of library systems are…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Interviews
Griffiths, Jose-Marie; King, Donald W. – 1989
This summary of the final report of a statewide study of library systems in New York State begins by providing background information on the library systems and changes that have occurred since the last system study was conducted in 1967. The methodology of the current study is then described, and the mission and services of library systems…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Interviews
Hogan, Donna R., Comp.; Dahlbach, Barbara J., Comp. – 1997
The Systems and Procedures Exchange Center (SPEC) surveyed Association of Research Libraries (ARL) institutions to measure the degree of electronic resource sharing in ARL libraries; to discover which resources are being shared and between what kinds of institutions; and what documentation is available. Of the 119 ARL institutions surveyed, 53…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Change, Computer Mediated Communication, Consortia
