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Sider, Laura Galas – Journal of Access Services, 2016
This article describes the planning process and implementation of a single service point at Yale University's Sterling Memorial Library. While much recent scholarship on single service points (SSPs) has focused on the virtues or hazards of eliminating reference desks in libraries nationwide, this essay explores the ways in which single service…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Services, Library Administration, Improvement
American Library Association Video/Library Video Network, Towson, MD. – 1997
This video provides guidelines for establishing a successful volunteer program in any library. Topics include: the benefits of volunteers to libraries; getting a volunteer program started and functioning; recruiting volunteers; interviewing volunteers; effectively training volunteers; acknowledgment of volunteers; and handling uncooperative or…
Descriptors: Labor Needs, Library Administration, Library Development, Library Personnel
Kirby, Christine L. – 1979
This document discusses the reasons for providing public library service to local jails from the viewpoint of the inmate, the library, and the jail administrator; and provides guidelines for establishing and operating this service. Topics covered include: obtaining approval from library and jail administrators for a library jail program; material…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Correctional Institutions, Guidelines, Library Material Selection
Cloonan, Michele – 1993
This resource guide considers issues in the staffing and organization of preservation activities. It provides guidance in implementing a systematic preservation program and evaluates the structures of various types of preservation programs. The following articles complement the discussion of program models and implementation: (1)…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Check Lists, Cost Effectiveness, Higher Education
Oklahoma Univ., Norman. School of Library Science. – 1986
This report describes activities of the program TRAILS (Training and Assistance for Indian Library Services), funded from September 1985 to January 1987 by Title II, Part B of the Higher Education Act, to provide training, guidance, and direction to 506 American Indian tribes and Alaskan Native communities for improvement of public library and…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indians, Improvement Programs, Job Training
Drewes, Jeanne M., Ed.; Page, Julie A., Ed. – 1997
This reference book explains how to create, implement, and evaluate formal and informal preservation education programs in school, public, academic, and special collections. It's seven chapters include 43 papers by contributors from a wide range of positions in librarianship and academia. Chapter 1, "Preservation Issues and the Community of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
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Hughes, Alun; Priestley, John – Information Services and Use, 1992
Describes SOLS TICE, the Satellite On-Line Searching Interactive Conferencing Experiment, conducted at the University of Plymouth (United Kingdom) to meet the training needs of staff in the library and information science (LIS) sector. Continuing professional development is discussed, instructional effectiveness and cost effectiveness are…
Descriptors: Communications Satellites, Computer Assisted Instruction, Cost Effectiveness, Foreign Countries