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Direct linkHoffert, Barbara – Library Journal, 2007
From the ascendance of the reference database and web sites offering endless opportunities for cyber-promotion to the crowds swarming through the doors to avail themselves of new computers, the Internet has transformed the way public libraries do business. That is not news. What is exciting, though, is how the Internet continues to change public…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Internet, Library Services, Electronic Libraries
Rogers, Michael – Library Journal, 2004
Living in the vast shadow cast by the spires of the Magic Kingdom presents special challenges for Orlando's Orange County Library System (OCLS), the most formidable of which is increasing its relatively small user base. The library additionally faces tension between the administration and staff, political strife on the board, and looming contract…
Descriptors: Library Services, Financial Support, Budgets, Library Role
Cigale, George – Library Journal, 2005
The surprising success of Live Homework Help, a product of Tutor.com unknown to libraries before 2001, is in very large part owing to the company's effort to understand library funding and help libraries tap into all kinds of potential funding sources. The story is a model for partnerships between other companies and libraries. For the people of…
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, Library Automation, Web Sites, Homework
Peer reviewedKing, Geraldine B. – Library Trends, 1983
Current trends in public library reference service include use of online systems; budget constraints in public sector; increased service; use, training, and supervision of paraprofessionals; centralized organization of reference service; participation in management of reference services; and more realistic attempts at measurement and evaluation of…
Descriptors: Budgets, Databases, Library Administration, Library Automation
Waters, Richard L.; Kralisz, Victor Frank – Drexel Library Quarterly, 1981
Places the cost considerations associated with public library automation in a framework of public finance comfortable to most administrators, discusses the importance of experience with use patterns in the electronic library in opening up new and innovative financing methods, and stresses the role of the library in the information industry. (JL)
Descriptors: Budgets, Community Information Services, Fees, Financial Support
St. Lifer, Evan – Library Journal, 1997
Based on "Library Journal's" 1997 Public Library Budget Report, this article discusses the state of public libraries in terms of Internet-related costs, budgets, local, state and federal funding, and fundraising. Presents--in six tables segmented by population served--the financial situations of 84 randomly surveyed public libraries.…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Budgets, Costs, Fund Raising
