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Addressing the Uncertain Future of Preserving the Past: Towards a Robust Strategy for Digital Archiving and Preservation. Technical Report. Executive Summary
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Hoorens, Stijn; Rothenberg, Jeff; van Oranje-Nassau, Constantijn; van der Mandele, Martin; Levitt, Ruth – RAND Corporation, 2007
Storing and curating authentic academic literature and making it accessible for the long term has been a time-honoured task of national libraries. By guarding existing knowledge and facilitating its use to produce new insights, national and university libraries have formed an integral part of the research environment, complementing the roles of…
Descriptors: Preservation, Government Libraries, Research Libraries, Foreign Countries
Education's Library. Actions Needed To Improve Its Usefulness, Testimony before the Subcommittee on Select Education, Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives.
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Morra, Linda G. – 1992
The Library Services and Construction Act (LSCA) Amendments of 1990 required the General Accounting Office (GAO) to conduct a review of the Department of Education's Research Library, which is a component of the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI). Data were gathered by reviewing several existing studies of alternatives for…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Federal Government, Federal Legislation, Financial Support
Education's Library. Actions Needed To Improve Its Usefulness. Report to Congressional Committees.
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General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1991
The Library Services and Construction Act (LSCA) Amendments of 1990 required the General Accounting Office (GAO) to conduct a review of the Department of Education's Research Library, which is a component of the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI). Data were gathered by interviewing one researcher and four librarians familiar…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Federal Government, Federal Legislation, Financial Support
IFLA General Conference, 1990. Division of Special Libraries: Section of Administrative Libraries; Section of Social Science Libraries; Section of Science and Technology Libraries; Section of Biological and Medical Sciences Libraries; Section of Art Libraries. Booklet 2.
International Federation of Library Associations, The Hague (Netherlands). – 1990
The 23 papers in this collection were presented at 5 sections of the Division of Special Libraries: (1) "Principles of Government Librarianship" (Hans H. van der Neut); (2) "Strategic Planning as an Instrument of Improving Library Quality" (Maurice B. Line); (3) "Library Staff Development Consultancy: A Means to Achieve a…
Descriptors: Federal Government, Fine Arts, Foreign Countries, Government Libraries