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Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, DC. – 1975
This handbook contains policy and procedure guidelines for establishing and maintaining libraries for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) (in regional, area, and insuring offices). In addition to delineating the relationship between these field libraries to the headquarters HUD Division Library, the text offers guidelines…
Descriptors: Government Libraries, Guides, Library Circulation, Library Collections
Bureau of the Census (DOC), Washington, DC. Governments Div. – 1995
The tables in this report summarize information about public libraries in fiscal year 1993. These data were collected through the sixth Public Libraries Survey. Respondents for this census were the 8,929 public libraries identified in the 50 states and District of Columbia, by state library agencies. Over 71% of the population of legally served…
Descriptors: Branch Libraries, Interlibrary Loans, Library Circulation, Library Collections
Chute, Adrienne; Kroe, Elaine – 1994
The tables in this report summarize information about public libraries in fiscal year 1992. These data were collected through the fifth Public Libraries Survey. Respondents for this census were the 8,946 public libraries identified in the 50 states and the District of Columbia by state library agencies. Nearly 71 percent of the population of…
Descriptors: Branch Libraries, Interlibrary Loans, Library Circulation, Library Collections
Chute, Adrienne; And Others – 1997
The tables in this report summarize information about public libraries in the United States for the fiscal year 1994. These data were collected through the seventh Public Libraries Survey (PLS). Respondents for this census were 8,727 of the 8,921 public libraries identified in the 50 states and District of Columbia, by state library agencies.…
Descriptors: Branch Libraries, Interlibrary Loans, Library Circulation, Library Collections

Texas State Library, Austin. Library Development Div. – 1995
This volume is the second annual Texas Public Library Summary. It contains information as submitted by local public libraries on their 1994 Annual Report forms. The contents include: analytical tables; statistical summary overview; operating and materials expenditures adjusted for inflation; Texas library per capita data compared to U.S. averages;…
Descriptors: Library Circulation, Library Expenditures, Library Funding, Library Services

Texas State Library, Austin. Library Development Div. – 1996
This volume is the third annual Texas Public Library Summary. It contains information as submitted by local public libraries on their 1995 Annual Report forms. The contents include: analytical tables; statistical summary overview; income and percent of population served by type of library; operating expenditures adjusted for inflation; materials…
Descriptors: Library Circulation, Library Expenditures, Library Funding, Library Services
McLarren, Robert R. – 1974
The report, submitted to the Illinois State Library, covers the period July 1, 1973 through June 30, 1974. Included in it are: (1) a list of the board of directors and other representatives of the system, (2) a list of the head librarians at each of the branch libraries, (3) a list of the system staff and the heads of individual system-wide…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Interlibrary Loans, Libraries, Library Acquisition
Colaianni, Lois Ann; Mirsky, Phyllis S. – 1971
Discussed in this manual for the inexperienced librarian in a small hospital library are: organization and administration; book selection and ordering; cataloging and catalog cards; classification; labeling of books; selecting and processing journals; interlibrary loans; reference services; and circulation. A suggested basic starter collection of…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Guides, Hospital Libraries, Hospitals

Chute, Adrienne – 1993
State and national FY91 data are aggregated from individual public libraries in the United States. These data were collected under the fourth annual census of the Federal-State Cooperative System (FSCS) in July of 1992. Respondents for this voluntary census were 9,050 public libraries identified in the 50 states and the District of Columbia by…
Descriptors: Branch Libraries, Financial Support, Interlibrary Loans, Library Circulation
Chute, Adrienne – 1992
State and national FY90 data are aggregated from individual public libraries in the United States. These data were collected under the third annual census of the Federal-State Cooperative System (FSCS) in July of 1991. Respondents for this voluntary census were 8,978 public libraries identified in the 50 states and the District of Columbia by…
Descriptors: Branch Libraries, Financial Support, Interlibrary Loans, Library Circulation
Lyle, Guy R. – 1974
Since the publication of the third edition of this book in 1961, numerous changes have occurred in the policies, procedures, functions and technology of academic librarianship. The present volume incorporates the literature of the past 13 years, and the author concludes that while the changes implied through the literature are significant and…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Evaluation, Financial Policy, Librarians
Williams, Jeffrey – 1992
This report is based on information from the 1990-91 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) Academic Libraries survey, a U.S. Department of Education vehicle for collecting data from all postsecondary institutions in the United States. The data in this report represent colleges and universities with accreditation at the higher…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Interlibrary Loans, Library Circulation

Nixon, Roberta; Bell, Ray – Library Resources and Technical Services, 1973
To speed materials to the user while allowing a maturation period to take full advantage of the National Program for Acquisitions and Cataloging, many libraries make newly-acquired materials available for circulation before cataloging. The U. C. L. A. library employs a computer to produce weekly author and title listings. (Author/DH)
Descriptors: Cataloging, College Libraries, Library Automation, Library Catalogs

Rajagopalan, T. S.; Ramaswami, K. – 1970
A survey of the resources and services of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) libraries was made so that the libraries in the complex could share the benefit of the experiences of each other. The report is based on questionnaire replies received from 31 CSIR Institutions and eight Co-operative Research Associations and relates…
Descriptors: Abstracting, Cataloging, Foreign Countries, Libraries
Colaianni, Lois Ann; Mirsky, Phyllis S. – 1972
The minimum requirement for a hospital medical library is that it provide the books, journals and other materials necessary to serve the immediate information needs of the professional staff and to support the programs undertaken by the hospital. Since it is impossible for any library to have all the materials that might be requested by the…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Guides, Hospital Libraries, Hospitals