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Starting Small, Dreaming Big: The OSLIS Project Brings Resources Statewide.
Claus-Smith, Diane – MultiMedia Schools, 1999
Describes the development of the grant-funded Oregon School Library Information System (OSLIS), a project design to provide cost-effective access to online resources in school libraries across the state. Notes that online database provides offer substantial discounts for group acquisition of their products which has prompted the development of…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Consortia, Cooperative Planning, Cooperative Programs
2 in 1: Designing a Combined Library That Works for Everybody.
Olson, Renee – School Library Journal, 1996
Discusses the design of combined school/public libraries and includes the views of three high school librarians and two elementary school librarians who helped create combined libraries. Topics include physical design issues, including entrances, lighting, and location; funding; cost benefits; contracts; signage; and parking. (LRW)
Descriptors: Building Design, Contracts, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Facilities Design
Selection Tools for School Libraries.
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Gillespie, John T. – Catholic Library World, 1988
Discusses the need for school librarians to use multiple selection tools in building suitable library collections and suggests cost effective methods for gaining access to selection tools. Selection aids discussed include bibliographies, book reviews, and catalogs of remainder houses. (CLB)
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Book Reviews, Cost Effectiveness, Elementary Secondary Education
Transforming the Reference Collection: "The Electric Library" (TM).
Safford, Barbara Ripp – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 1997
Describes "The Electric Library" (TM), a database (which can be searched via an Internet connection) designed to assist schools, librarians, and parents with information retrieval. Discusses technical and logistical benefits, the problem of selected and limited resources, and cost issues. Provides a sample debate topic exercise using "The Electric…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Databases, Electronic Libraries, Elementary Secondary Education
The Bottom Line: Are CD-ROM Encyclopedias Worth the Cost?
Shoemaker, Joel – School Library Journal, 1995
Examines the cost effectiveness of using CD-ROM encyclopedias in school libraries; finds print encyclopedias to be cheaper, but advocates the use of both. Sidebars include price comparisons of popular print and CD-ROM encyclopedias. (AEF)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cost Effectiveness, Costs, Encyclopedias
Document Delivery and School Libraries.
Kachel, Debra – Wilson Library Bulletin, 1993
Discusses document delivery and the rise in periodical requests in school libraries. Problems with union listing tools, system protocols and procedures, interlibrary loan charges, and copyright procedures are described; cost effectiveness and time efficiency are considered; equitable school library services are discussed; and collection…
Descriptors: Copyrights, Cost Effectiveness, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
Improving Access to Periodicals: A Cooperative Collection Management Project.
Kachel, Debra E. – School Library Media Quarterly, 1996
The Lancaster County (Pennsylvania) public library, which receives many school districts' interlibrary loan requests, experienced a 100% increase in periodical article requests. Working cooperatively, school and public librarians developed a LSCA Title II grant to study magazine usage to make cost-effective decisions about improving timely access…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Cooperative Planning, Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making