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Boadi, Benzies Y.; And Others – 1987
Developed with the support of the German Foundation for International Development (DSE) and the University of Botswana (Africa), this five-week "long vacation" training program includes four modules designed to provide refresher and in-service training for those library assistants who have work experience but have not been able to attend…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Indexing
Download full textWhite, Lucinda M. – 1987
This guide is designed to introduce the student to some of the major sources of advertising information available in the Fogler Library at the University of Maine. A brief description and exploration of the card catalog, Library of Congress Subject Headings, Library of Congress Classification System, and the Dewey Decimal System are included. In…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Advertising, Annotated Bibliographies, Classification
Soifer, Libby P. – 1988
This guide and annotated bibliography is designed to introduce students taking social work courses to the basic research tools in their field that are available in the Fogler Library at the University of Maine. Brief explanations and examples are provided of the relevant Library of Congress subject headings and call numbers used in Fogler Library,…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Academic Libraries, Annotated Bibliographies, Higher Education
Ensor, Pat – 1986
This document details 28 policies and 37 procedures of the online searching service at the Indiana State University (ISU), Cunningham Memorial Library. Sixteen forms used in various aspects of the process are also included. The policies include but are not limited to the following: (1) the Database Search Service organization; (2) Database Search…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Administrative Policy, Databases, Guidelines
Coleman, Kathleen – 1988
Developed to provide a programmed instruction tutorial for student assistant shelvers in the General Reference Division at San Diego State University (SDSU) Library, this manual presents five teaching units: (1) an introduction to the resources and services available in General Reference, which includes reference materials for all fields in the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Classification, Government Publications, Higher Education
Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. Office of Management Studies. – 1981
This set of materials on computerized bibliographic search services in academic and research libraries includes policy and procedure statements on online information retrieval services at the University of Houston, Colorado State University, Duke University, Temple University, Emory University, and Yale, among others; a position description for…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Annual Reports, College Libraries, Costs
Dodd, Jane; And Others – 1985
This report summarizes research undertaken at the Sterling C. Evans Library, Texas A & M University to assess the impact that end user information retrieval systems may have on library staff and users. Two systems, BRS/After Dark and Search Helper, were made available in the library for end user searching at no cost. A total of 260 users…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Information Retrieval, Library Administration
Cottam, Keith M.; Pelton, Robert W. – 1977
This book's purpose is to aid the researcher-writer in locating information from a variety of fields. It describes over 200 basic reference sources, and groups them according to the following types of information: background information, magazine or newspaper articles, books, definitions, fact sources, biography, quotations, statistics,…
Descriptors: Atlases, Dictionaries, Directories, Encyclopedias
ERIC Clearinghouse on Rural Education and Small Schools, Las Cruces, NM. – 1982
Written in Spanish, this booklet describes the ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) system, who uses ERIC and why, and how to use ERIC. Brief descriptions of the 16 clearinghouses and the services of the ERIC Processing and Reference Facility, ERIC Document Reproduction Service, Oryx Press, and the U. S. Government Printing Office are…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Clearinghouses, Databases, Educational Resources
Murphy, Marcy – 1981
A survey of over 200 academic, public, and special libraries in 13 selected states was conducted in the fall of 1979 to provide a state of the art report on online or computerized reference services. Libraries were selected from states which had demonstrated leadership in networking, and data were sought in four areas: (1) users of online…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Costs, Databases, Librarians
Fenichel, Carol Hansen; Harter, Stephen Paul – 1981
A survey conducted to document the status of online searching instruction in United States and Canadian library and information science schools specifically sought information on: reference use of technical processing and traditional search systems, consciousness raising instruction, instructional levels, physical facilities, funding sources, and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Curriculum, Databases, Educational Facilities
Hektoen, Faith H. – 1981
This 2-volume report measures and records the use of 16 public library children's services in Connecticut to provide management information and a model to improve the quality of services from collection development to the provision of reference and referral services. The first volume discusses the purposes of the project; examines documentation…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Library Acquisition, Library Administration, Library Collections
Rice, Sheila – 1978
To introduce undergraduate students to the library and to familiarize them with the various indexing systems and reference materials, the University of Michigan has produced this workbook designed specifically for their library. The information and exercises included cover physical layout, the card catalog, the Library of Congress Classification…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Indexes, Information Retrieval, Library Catalogs
Gothberg, Helen M. – 1976
The purpose of the investigation was to develop and test an audio-tutorial program for a course in Basic Reference. The design of the investigation was a posttest-only-control group design with 63 students randomly assigned to either an audio-tutorial or a lecture group. Data were collected and analyzed using a t-test for two groups and four…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Comparative Analysis, Course Evaluation, Higher Education
Smalley, Donald A.; And Others – 1980
This study of the benefits, methods, and costs of linking two or more bibliographic utilities for use by public and academic libraries assessed the impact of linking on three distinct areas of library operations: shared cataloging, interlibrary loan, and reference searching. The analysis was restricted to bibliographic records for monographs in…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cataloging, Cost Effectiveness, Databases
