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Peer reviewedCarter, Betty – New Advocate, 2000
Asks what happens when budget and organizational restrictions deny students access to books in their school and public libraries. Suggests that without books, young people are missing the places where they find the sanctuary, direction, discovery, and knowledge that literature offers. Argues that information is about data; literature is about…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Childrens Literature, Coping, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedAdams, Mignon; And Others – American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, 1990
As biotechnology continues to influence significantly the environment of pharmacy educators, it brings pharmacy librarians opportunity for changes in many sectors, notably the profession of librarianship, the nature of information resources, and delivery of information services. More human, financial, and material resources will be needed to…
Descriptors: Biomedicine, Delivery Systems, Educational Change, Educational Resources
Peer reviewedWegner, Lucy Siefert – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1992
In tomorrow's research library, students and researchers will be able to find and retrieve a variety of materials without leaving their computer workstations. Traditional library facilities will be augmented by "virtual libraries" with primarily electronic, not physical, access to collections. This trend will require redefinition of services and…
Descriptors: Computers, Electronic Libraries, Futures (of Society), Higher Education
Download full textCommission on Preservation and Access, Washington, DC. – 1989
This annual report describes the activities of the Commission on Preservation and Access, a private, nonprofit organization that works through existing institutions and groups to foster, develop, and support collaboration among libraries and allied organizations in order to ensure the preservation of the published and documentary record in all…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Archives, Financial Support, Foreign Countries
Drabenstott, Karen M. – 1994
This document presents an analytical bibliography of literature on the library of the future that was published between the years 1983 and 1994. This project had four objectives: (1) to identify and retrieve published literature on the library of the future; (2) to formulate document surrogates for this literature and add them to a computerized…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Bibliographies, Electronic Libraries
Missouri State Coordinating Board for Higher Education, Jefferson City. – 1996
This report is the product of a cooperative planning effort by a group of leaders in higher education across Missouri to summarize the available resources for distance education in the state and offer recommendations for increased access. After an introduction, a description of the planning process, and a statement of the group's guiding…
Descriptors: Communications Satellites, Community Colleges, Computer Assisted Instruction, Cooperative Programs
