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Download full textLeal, Ralph A. – 1974
An overview of libraries in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) is presented, beginning with an analysis of the role played by Lenin in shaping the development of the library system in that country. There follows a historical survey of libraries in the Soviet Union, with an emphasis on the period from 1955 to 1975. Certain aspects…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Centralization, Government Libraries, History
PDF pending restorationTrezza, Alphonse F. – 1974
Each of the 50 states has created a state library agency to administer state and federal library programs. Since the 1960's state library agencies have been involved in bibliographical systems and networks. In the 1970's these agencies completed long-range plans to meet each state's library service needs. Because of this experience, the state…
Descriptors: Financial Support, Information Needs, Interstate Programs, Library Cooperation
Goldwyn, A. J. – 1975
Regional library cooperation in Ohio operates under two organizational forms, the state-funded Area Library Service Organization (ALSO) and the federally-funded multicounty cooperatives. In 1974, to aid in statewide planning and in the development of each project, the state library commissioned this study of all its multicounty cooperative…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Library Cooperation, Library Expenditures, Library Networks
Kittel, Dorothy A. – 1975
This nine page pamphlet describes the development of such federal library legislation as the Library Services Act (1956), the Library Services and Construction Act (1964), the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the Higher Education Act, and the Medical Library Assistance Act (1964). The effect of this legislation on new forms of intertype…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, College Libraries, Federal Legislation, Interstate Programs
Shaughnessy, Thomas W. – 1975
During the first half of the twentieth century, there was slow but steady progress toward larger units of public library service, such as county and regional systems. But there was a lag both in the conceptual and the actual development of the central libraries of these systems as strong points for direct service to readers. Librarians were first…
Descriptors: Branch Libraries, Centralization, County Libraries, Federal Legislation
Bowron, Albert – 1975
In 1975 a study of the Ontario (Canada) public library system was undertaken in order to develop plans for organizing, financing, and coordinating public libraries in the next ten years. From published reports, interviews, letters, and examination of facilities and available data, information was collected on provincial and county library…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Financial Support, Governing Boards
