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Bundy, Mary Lee; Wasserman, Paul – 1970
The purpose of this study is to analyze the characteristics of administrators and of the organizations and the environments in which they function in an attempt to increase understanding of the human and organizational variables which tend to spawn or to inhibit change. The instrument employed in the analysis was a mail questionnaire addressed to…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrator Role, College Libraries, Innovation
Bundy, Mary Lee; And Others – 1970
In the study of the school library supervisor, the universe was made up of those school systems in the United States with enrollments of 25,000 or more and identified as having the position of school library supervisor. Questionnaires were sent to all 150 supervisors thus identified and 99 returned the questionnaire. Full detail of sample choice…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrator Role, College Libraries, Innovation
Bundy, Mary Lee; And Others – 1970
In this study of the public library administrator the universe was made up of public libraries serving populations of 100,000 or more. A total of 102 administrators responded to the questionnaire. Full details of sample choice and design and an analysis of the returns are contained in the Appendix. A primary concern was to discern where and how…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrator Role, College Libraries, Innovation
Lynch, Mary Jo; Oder, Norman; Halstead, Kent; Fox, Bette-Lee; Miller, Marilyn L.; Schontz, Marilyn L. – Bowker Annual Library and Book Trade Almanac, 2002
Presents eight articles that discuss research on libraries and librarianship; number of libraries in the U.S. and Canada; highlights of NCES (National Center for Education Statistics) surveys; library acquisition expenditures; budgets; price indexes; library buildings construction; and expenditures for school library media center resources. (LRW)
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Budgets, Cost Indexes, Educational Resources
Garoogian, Rhoda – 1975
Library Technical Assistants (LTA's) were the subject of a study designed to focus on four areas: (1) the present status of formal LTA training programs, (2) the present and potential job market, (3) the duties which LTA's perform, and (4) the attitude of the professional librarian toward the LTA. Data were collected from two sources--catalogs of…
Descriptors: Attitudes, College Libraries, Higher Education, Labor Market
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Kerby, Mona – Knowledge Quest, 2001
The purpose of this study was to examine the science and technology books in 18 elementary school libraries in 18 Maryland school districts and: determine the age of the books; identify what percent of the books matched a professional selection source; determine the number of books per student; and estimate costs in upgrading the collections. (AEF)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Library Collection Development, Library Collections, Library Material Selection