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Hu, Yuerong; Ocepek, Melissa G.; Downie, John Stephen; Barker, Lecia – College & Research Libraries, 2022
Librarianship is constantly confronted with unexpected and quickly evolving sociotechnical challenges, yet the documents that define the core professional competencies for librarians are infrequently updated. Based upon survey responses collected from 383 working librarians located in the United States, we describe a set of gaps between current…
Descriptors: Librarian Attitudes, Competence, Library Science, Library Education
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Wojciechowska, Maja – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2023
Academic libraries, apart from their main function, which is to provide information services to academic communities, may also perform a number of social roles in the broad meaning of the term. Accordingly, they now tend to serve as the third place offering inclusion and animation activities to academic as well as local communities (including…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Academic Libraries, Librarians, Librarian Attitudes
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Sharon Markless; David Streatfield – Journal of Information Literacy, 2017
This paper surveys the (patchy and uneven) advances in LIS impact evaluation over the past ten years and notes the surge forward in public library impact evaluation, before looking more broadly at the international and educational impact evaluation scene and noting the advance of programme-theory driven approaches. The authors then identify…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Instructional Effectiveness, Trend Analysis, Library Science
New York State Education Department, 2016
In April 2010, the New York State Board of Regents challenged the library community to rethink the State's vast array of library services to ensure that they are aligned with modern expectations and the expanded functions needed in today's society, operate with improved efficiency, and are prepared for the future as an essential and vibrant part…
Descriptors: Library Services, Library Administration, Library Development, Strategic Planning
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Regazzi, John J. – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2012
This study compares the overall spending trends and patterns of growth of Academic Libraries with Public Libraries, K-12 schools, higher education institutions, and hospitals in the period of 1998 to 2008. Academic Libraries, while showing a growth of 13% over inflation for the period, far underperformed the growth of the other public institutions…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Academic Libraries, School Libraries, Special Libraries
Smith, Susan Sharpless – ALA Editions, 2010
Expanding on the popular, practical how-to guide for public, academic, school, and special libraries, technology expert Susan Sharpless Smith offers library instructors the confidence to take Web-based instruction into their own hands. Smith has thoroughly updated "Web-Based Instruction: A Guide for Libraries" to include new tools and…
Descriptors: Web Based Instruction, Special Libraries, Educational Technology, Internet
Bray, Ira, Ed. – California State Library, 2009
Each year the State Library sends annual report forms to California's public, academic, special, state agency, and county law libraries. Statistical data from those reports are tabulated in this publication, with directory listings published in the companion volume, "California Library Directory." For this fiscal year, 389 libraries of…
Descriptors: Law Libraries, Government Libraries, School Libraries, Public Libraries
Henderson, Everett; Miller, Kim; Farrell, Michele; Brock, Faye; Dorinski, Suzanne; Freeman, Michael; Frid, Lisa; Hardesty, Laura; Music, Christopher; O'Shea, Patricia; Sheckells, Cindy – Institute of Museum and Library Services, 2009
This report marks the third release of library statistics data from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). It contains data on state library agencies in the 50 states and the District of Columbia for state fiscal year (FY) 2008. The data were collected through the State Library Agencies (StLA) Survey, the product of a cooperative…
Descriptors: Government Libraries, Statistics, State Government, State Surveys
Breeding, Marshall – Library Journal, 2009
In a year where the general economy presented enormous challenges, libraries continued to make investments in automation, especially in products that help improve what and how they deliver to their end users. Access to electronic content remains a key driver. In response to anticipated needs for new approaches to library automation, many companies…
Descriptors: Library Automation, Corporations, Vendors, Computer Software
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Maceviciute, Elena; Wilson, T. D. – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2009
Introduction: Reports the conduct of a national survey in Sweden to establish the desired research priorities for libraries. The research sought to establish what evidence-base is needed for evidence-based practice. Method: The Delphi method was employed to solicit opinions on the kinds of research needed by libraries of all kinds in Sweden.…
Descriptors: Delphi Technique, Research Needs, Educational Research, Special Libraries
Henderson, Everett; Manjarrez, C. Arturo; Miller, Kim A.; Dorinski, Suzanne; Freeman, Michael; Music, Christopher; O'Shea, Patricia; Sheckells, Cindy – Institute of Museum and Library Services, 2008
This report marks the second release of library statistics data from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). It contains data on state library agencies in the 50 states and the District of Columbia for state fiscal year (FY) 2007. The data were collected through the State Library Agencies (StLA) Survey, the product of a cooperative…
Descriptors: Government Libraries, Statistics, State Government, State Surveys
Online Submission, 2007
Issues 248 through 255 of "Fast Facts" from the Library Research Service present data gleaned from libraries in Colorado and across the nation. Topics addressed in these "Fast Facts" from 2007 include the library labor market, the benefits to libraries of using a statewide courier service, and the results of a patron survey at…
Descriptors: Salaries, Library Personnel, Public Libraries, Archives
KEE, S. JANICE – 1966
THIS LIBRARY SURVEY, INITIATED WITH THE PURPOSE OF BRINGING WYOMING LIBRARY SERVICE UP TO NATIONAL STANDARDS, HAS AS ITS THEME "EQUALITY OF SERVICE THROUGH COOPERATIVE EFFORT." QUESTIONNAIRES SENT TO LIBRARIANS AND LIBRARY BOARD MEMBERS, INTERVIEWS, AND OBSERVATION WERE USED IN COLLECTING DATA WHICH YIELDED THE FOLLOWING MAJOR…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Libraries, Library Collections, Library Cooperation
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Visser, Michelle – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2006
This article examines the results of a survey sent to Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Special Collections requesting information on outreach to K-12 students. Over half of the respondents work with K-12 and many of those who currently do not are planning to. New pressures and changing philosophies contribute to this trend.
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Library Services, School Libraries, Outreach Programs
Sinclair, Dorothy; And Others – 1969
This study was conducted to explore possibilities for cooperative library activities in the 36 county region of the Abilene Major Resource System which has the Abilene Public Library as the Major Resource Center. The report begins with a consideration of the region as an environment for public library service, followed by a detailed assessment of…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Library Cooperation, Library Planning, Library Services
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