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Wessells, Michael B.; And Others – 1979
Problems encountered in the first seven years of operation of the Interlibrary Delivery System (IDS) for the transport of interlibrary loan materials among libraries in Pennsylvania prompted this study of present delivery at the local and state levels, with the objectives of evaluating benefits, costs, routing, funding, and governance of delivery…
Descriptors: Interlibrary Loans, Library Cooperation, Library Networks, Library Services
Ahmad, Mahassen – 1990
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Nutrition Education and Training Program (NET) provides nutrition information and instructional resources for children and for key individuals involved in children's learning environments. The latter category includes parents, educators, and food service personnel. This document describes formal evaluation…
Descriptors: Coordination, Library Services, Nutrition Instruction, Outreach Programs
Peer reviewedOrgren, Carl F.; Olson, Barbara J. – RQ, 1976
Describes an evaluation of Iowa's statewide teletype reference service operated primarily by library school students. (PF)
Descriptors: Information Networks, Interlibrary Loans, Library Networks, Library Services
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Div. of Library Development. – 1989
A task force was appointed to insure that New York State's health information service programs were operating optimally. The task force was charged to review: (1) the effectiveness of the guidelines and assessment form as published in the "Manual for Assessing the Quality of Health Sciences Libraries in Hospitals"; (2) the present…
Descriptors: Financial Support, Interlibrary Loans, Library Networks, Library Services
Download full textMassachusetts Board of Library Commissioners, Boston. – 1979
These three collections of reports comprise the objectives, background information, project descriptions, and evaluations for public library programs funded through the Library Services and Construction Act (LSCA) in Massachusetts during the fiscal years 1977, 1978, and 1979. The projects reflect the efforts being made by librarians to provide…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Federal Aid, Information Services, Library Cooperation
Bureau of the Census (DOC), Washington, DC. Governments Div. – 1993
This report reflects the results of an evaluation of the coverage in the annual Public Library Statistics program, a joint federal-state information collection project. It is the first phase of a broader project of the Census Bureau and the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) to evaluate the overall statistics available from the annual…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Data Collection, Definitions, Evaluation Criteria
Massachusetts State Board of Library Commissioners, Boston. – 1977
This collection of reports provides the objectives, background information, project descriptions, and evaluations for 16 public library programs funded through the Library Services and Construction Act in Massachusetts during FY 1976. The projects reflect the efforts being made by librarians to provide services to segments of their population who…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Directories, Federal Aid, Information Services
Callison, Daniel; Pungitore, Verna L. – 1998
INCOLSA, Indiana's statewide library and information network was established in 1995 as the result of a voluntary merger of the state's 10 autonomous, mulitype library services agencies. An evaluation was conducted centered on services appearing under three major goals listed in the 1994 plan: (1) statewide information access and delivery; (2)…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Information Networks, Information Services, Information Sources
Roberts-Gray, Cynthia – 1988
In 1988, four studies were conducted to evaluate changes in the behavior and the knowledge of child nutrition on the part of participants in the Texas Nutrition Education and Training Program (NET). The NET Program operates synergistically with reimbursement elements of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Child Nutrition Programs to improve…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Inservice Teacher Education, Library Services, Nutrition Instruction
Ahmad, Mahassen – 1991
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Nutrition Education and Training Program (NET) provides nutrition information and instructional resources for children, parents, educators, and food service personnel. This document describes the evaluation methods of the NET Program in Texas in fiscal year 1991, reports evaluation results, and offers…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Coordination, Food Service, Instructional Materials
Phelan, Jody – 1986
Developed for the Texas Reading Club, a program sponsored cooperatively by local libraries and the Texas State Library and designed to encourage children and their parents to read and use the library, this planning handbook is intended to help librarians and volunteers organize and manage a local reading club. The Texas Reading Club program is…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Childrens Literature, Guidelines, Library Planning
Keller, Shelly G., Ed. – 1997
The California State Library convened the Convocation on Providing Public Library Service to California's 21st Century Population with the goal of creating a vision of public library service in California. Over 100 library leaders and supporters gathered for two days of meetings and work sessions. These proceedings are designed to give a detailed…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Conferences, Futures (of Society), Library Collection Development
Scott, Sandra – 1982
During the summer of 1981, 15 state-supported institutional libraries in Nebraska completed self-evaluation forms on their library operations, constituents, and collections. Institutions included were adult correctional facilities, youth facilities, mental health/mental retardation facilities, and veterans' homes. It was found that institutions…
Descriptors: Correctional Institutions, Institutional Libraries, Library Collections, Library Facilities
Westervelt, Esther M. – 1968
The New York State Guidance Center for Women in Suffern, New York provides individual counseling and vocational and educational information. During the months covered by this report, the Center cosponsored a conference on continuing education for women in the two-year colleges of the State University, began a second series of career information…
Descriptors: Counseling Services, Disadvantaged, Females, Field Experience Programs
Wert, Lucille M.; Powell, Ronald R. – 1975
The Illinois project entitled Measurement and Evaluation of Public Library Services is being conducted by the Library Research Center (LRC) at the University of Illinois. The long range goal of the project is to make available meaningful information for the evaluation and improvement of local public libraries. Two immediate objectives are to test…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Evaluation Methods, Librarians, Library Administration
