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Download full textClark, Collin, Ed. – 1986
This document characterizes libraries in California through statistical tables, profiling each library within the appropriate library type (public, academic and special, academic, special, state agency, and county law). Directory listings are published in a companion volume, California Library Directory. For fiscal year 1984-1985, 990 libraries of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Annual Reports, Interlibrary Loans, Library Circulation
Tompkins, Philip, Ed. – 1981
This document presents the proceedings of a conference organized to review the cooperative collection development features of the Missouri State Network Plan and to outline specific goals, methods, and materials for facilitating cooperative collection development projects in the state's multitype library networks. An introduction provides…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Check Lists, Library Acquisition, Library Associations
South Carolina State Library, Columbia. – 1989
Prepared as an outline of the long-range South Carolina Library development program required by the Library Services and Construction Act (LSCA), this document describes: (1) the library public, with emphasis on the disadvantaged, illiterate, blind and physically handicapped, persons with limited English speaking ability, the elderly, and the…
Descriptors: Information Needs, Library Cooperation, Library Networks, Library Personnel
Texas State Library, Austin. Dept. of Library Development. – 1988
The materials in this manual are intended to provide the introductory information needed by new system advisory council members and staff of the Texas State Library on the history, role, governance, funding, services, and administration of library systems. Included in the handbook are discussions of: (1) the role of systems in public library…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Documentation, Financial Support, Governance
International Federation of Library Associations, The Hague (Netherlands). – 1987
Four papers are compiled in the section on school libraries: (1) "Zentrale Dienstleistungen fur Schulbibliotheken in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland am Beispiel der Schulbibliothekarischen Arbeitsstelle der Stadtbucherei Frankfurt am Main = Centralized School Library Services in the Federal Republic of Germany, as Performed at the School Library…
Descriptors: Centralization, Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Elementary Secondary Education
South Carolina State Library, Columbia. – 1988
Prepared as an outline of the long-range South Carolina Library development program required by the Library Services and Construction Act (LSCA), this document describes: (1) the library public, with emphasis on the disadvantaged, illiterate, blind and physically handicapped, persons with limited English speaking ability, the elderly, and the…
Descriptors: Information Needs, Library Cooperation, Library Networks, Library Personnel
South Carolina State Library, Columbia. – 1985
Prepared as an outline of the long range South Carolina library development program required by the Library Services and Construction Act (LSCA), this document describes: (1) the library public, with emphasis on disadvantaged, blind, physically handicapped, elderly, and institutionalized persons as well as persons with limited English speaking…
Descriptors: Information Needs, Library Cooperation, Library Networks, Library Personnel
Gidseg, Mitchell, Ed. – 1987
Based on 403 responses to a survey of the 980 libraries on the Texas State Library Mailing List, this directory is designed to describe the variety and depth of special information resources in Texas and to provide a tool for identifying special information not readily obtainable through other means. A listing of special libraries includes…
Descriptors: Budgets, Consultants, Databases, Information Centers
Saint Louis Regional Library Network, MO. – 1981
Included in this set of manuals are: (1) guidelines for document delivery to member libraries within the St. Louis Regional Library Network (SLRLN) in which eligible materials are described, addressing and packing are outlined, routing and deliveries are discussed, and a list of delivery system participants is provided; (2) a descriptive guide to…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Administrative Policy, Check Lists, Delivery Systems
Peat, Marwick, Mitchell and Co., Washington, DC. – 1981
Cost estimates provided by cataloging vendors during January 1981 are analyzed to identify the costs of catalog conversion options and alternatives to the card catalog for six Minnesota regional library systems. Following an executive summary of the study is a discussion of its background, scope, objectives, data gathering methodology, and…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Computer Output Microfilm, Costs, Library Catalogs
International Federation of Library Associations, The Hague (Netherlands). – 1982
Papers on the impact of information technology on library services and the provision of library services to ethnic and linguistic minorities which were presented at the 1982 International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) conference include: (1) "The Challenge of Electronic Technologies to the Information Society: A Call for…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Ethnic Groups, Foreign Countries, Immigrants
International Federation of Library Associations, The Hague (Netherlands). – 1982
Papers on library and information networks which were presented at the 1982 International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) conference include: (1) "Introduction to the Open and Closed Networking Concepts" by R. M. Bennett (Canada), which differentiates between space-biased and time-biased communications media, relates these…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Foreign Countries, Information Networks, Interlibrary Loans
Robertson, Cameron D. – 1982
This evaluation of the California Title-Author List (CATALIST), second edition, a union catalog on microfiche published from computer output microform tapes which contains location records for approximately 700,000 titles held in 152 public, academic, and special libraries throughout California, is presented as a means of assessing progress to…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cataloging, Computer Output Microfilm, Interlibrary Loans
Hehman, Thomas J., Comp. – 1982
Guidelines and sample multi-part forms for interlibrary lending in Virginia are presented in this manual, which updates a 1978 edition by including material on the Catalog of Virginia Library Resources (CAVALIR). CAVALIR is a statewide computer output microfiche (COM) catalog of library holdings, prepared from the contributions of 61 Virginian…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Computer Output Microfilm, Copyrights, Interlibrary Loans
Heise, George F. – 1984
This paper examines the barriers to cooperation among a group of librarians and trustees in the Bergen County Cooperative Library System (BCCLS) in New Jersey as the group explored the potential advantages of a cooperative automated circulation system. This network of public libraries shares reciprocal borrowing, direct access to borrowing, and…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Attitude Change, Interlibrary Loans, Interviews
