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Rusk, Michael D.; Cummings, Ellen – Community & Junior College Libraries, 2011
Academic and public libraries are facing the challenge of finding new avenues of service and of creating value for their constituencies. This value is in the form of outcomes that result in bettering the people who use libraries and the community at large. The authors feel that librarians must find creative ways to make their communities better…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Public Libraries, Professional Associations, Library Networks
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Johnson, Wendell G. – Community & Junior College Libraries, 2011
The job of the contemporary reference librarian has a virtual component unimaginable a generation ago. Today's library professional can obtain an MLS (or equivalent) online with a minimal residency requirement. Not only the degree, but also library sources, and indeed patrons, have become virtual. Both books and periodicals can be consulted by…
Descriptors: Printed Materials, Special Libraries, Public Libraries, Reference Services
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Rothstein, Samuel – Reference Librarian, 1989
Traces the development of reference service in American libraries during the second half of the nineteenth century and examines the evolution of reference service in the Providence Public Library. The article focuses on how the distinctive features of reference service were conceived and merged into the current concept of reference service. (43…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Library Role, Library Services
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Rothstein, Samuel – Reference Librarian, 1989
Historical review covers: (1) the rise of research and research libraries, 1850-1900; (2) the genesis of reference service, 1875-95; (3) the growth of reference service in the research libraries, 1896-1916; (4) reference practices in the research libraries, 1896-1916; (5) legislative and municipal reference work, 1900-16; and (6) current trends…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Library Role, Library Services
Chepesiuk, Ron – American Libraries, 1994
Ten top authors talk about how they use libraries; what they think of technology in libraries; the impact of libraries on society; how society values libraries; and how libraries helped inspire their writing careers. Authors include writers of novels, plays, poetry, historical fiction, nonfiction, and children's literature. (KRN)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Authors, Higher Education, Information Seeking
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Raymond, Boris – Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science, 1995
Provides historical background and describes the change in the role of Russian libraries from conduits for party propaganda to organizations designed to serve the needs of their users. Considers problems for library educators in providing librarians with the skills needed in the new political and technological environment of post-Communist Russia.…
Descriptors: Communism, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Library Education
Fecher, Ellen – Wilson Library Bulletin, 1985
This essay focuses on types of health information the public is seeking and sources for obtaining health data. Discussion of librarian's role in providing health information covers legal entanglements, reference interview, collections and services provided by academic health science libraries, hospital libraries, and public libraries, and future…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Health, Higher Education, Hospital Libraries
Parikh, Neel; Broidy, Ellen – Wilson Library Bulletin, 1982
Addresses the question of librarians' response to women's needs, examining the basic differences between public and academic libraries and their service philosophies in terms of the community of women library users, collection development of material on women's issues, access to information, and library services for women. (EJS)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Females, Higher Education, Library Acquisition
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International Library Review, 1982
A general review of the role of the library in education at all levels is followed by 10 theses which delineate some of the responsibilities of public, school, and academic libraries in this area. (EJS)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Books, Childrens Literature, Elementary Secondary Education
Manley, Will; And Others – Wilson Library Bulletin, 1989
The innovative designs of three libraries are described: the Tempe (Arizona) Public Library, which emphasizes services for children and students; an underground library at Park College, Missouri; and a public library located in the Vancouver (Washington) Mall. The fourth article describes the work going on to restore the Los Angeles (California)…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Facility Guidelines, Higher Education, Library Facilities
Coffman, Steve; Josephine, Helen – Library Journal, 1991
Discusses academic and public libraries that expand the range and type of their services via fee-based information services and private information businesses that charge fees. Questions of billing the total cost to the patron versus part of the cost are considered; and the impact of such fees on library cooperation and networks is described. (six…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Costs, Fees, Higher Education
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Martinez, Ed – Library Mosaics, 1999
Reviews the profiles of a typical public library, the Redondo Beach Public Library (California), and its nearby community college library, the Schauerman Library at El Camino College in Torrance, California. Discusses similarities between staff in public and academic libraries; differences between the two environments; and like missions of both…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education, Library Personnel
Henson, Jane E., Ed. – 1990
This report focuses on the three themes of the 1991 White House Conference on Library and Information Services, i.e., Democracy, Literacy, and Productivity. The report begins with an introduction by State Librarian Ray Ewick and a summary of the conference activities. Executive summaries of remarks made by speakers during three general conference…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Democracy, Higher Education
Appleman, Merrie – 1984
Although originally compiled and published for the California Library Telecommunications Project (an analysis of the telecommunications needs and opportunities for the California State Library on behalf of the state's 169 public libraries), this report also cites examples of, and proposes options for, electronic text use in public libraries…
Descriptors: Computers, Electronic Equipment, Higher Education, Information Networks
White, Herbert S. – American Libraries, 1990
Argues that the inability or refusal of librarians to define their own mission has resulted in school libraries without professional staff, academic libraries perceived as warehouses, and public libraries that fluctuate with society's whims. The premise that saving the library is a primary concern, regardless of the quality of the institution, is…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Learning Resources Centers, Library Role
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