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Epstein, Susan Baerg – 1984
In preparation for a 2-day workshop on the potential for library automation in Maine, comments regarding expectations for the workshop, specific questions, and concerns were solicited from librarians throughout Maine. This document comprises written testimony received by the solicitor. Among the issues addressed are: needs and desires in the area…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Automation, Library Cooperation, Library Networks
Busch, B. J. – 1985
This SPEC (Systems and Procedures Exchange Center) kit is based partially on the results of a fall, 1984 survey of the 117 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) members to determine the extent to which they have reorganized staff and the role played by automation in planning organizational change. Particular attention was paid to the integration…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cataloging, Higher Education, Library Administration
California Univ., Santa Barbara. University Library. – 1986
This document describes an investigation designed to examine the possibilities for using both existing and new technologies to increase and enhance public service capabilities at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) Library, and to recommend an ongoing mechanism for assessing priorities for the application of technology in the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Higher Education, Information Storage
International Federation of Library Associations, The Hague (Netherlands). – 1987
The six papers in this collection were presented at three sessions. The three presented to the Division of Management and Technology are listed first: (1) "The RLG (Research Libraries Group) Preservation Program and RLIN (Research Libraries Information Network) System Support" (Patricia McClung and John Haeger, United States); (2)…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Administration, Centralization, Developed Nations
International Federation of Library Associations, The Hague (Netherlands). – 1987
The four papers in this collection report on geography and map libraries: (1) "Changing Patterns of Map Availability" (C. R. Perkins and R. B. Parry, United Kingdom), which presents the results of a three year survey into the state of world mapping, a discussion of the implications of changing patterns of map availability for map library…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cartography, Developed Nations, Developing Nations
Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. Office of Management Studies. – 1984
One in a series of reports on public service studies by academic libraries that are being administered by the Office of Management Studies (OMS) of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), this report on the self-study of the University of California, Riverside (UCR) Libraries includes a brief description of the overall project and an…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Higher Education, Library Administration, Library Automation
Research Libraries Group, Inc., Stanford, CA. – 1984
This document comprises a program schedule; welcoming remarks by Herman Liebaers (Brussels), entitled "Towards a European Equivalent of the Council on Library Resources"; and conference papers presented at an international conference on cooperation among research libraries. The following papers presented at the conference are (with two…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cataloging, Consortia, Foreign Countries
Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. Office of Management Studies. – 1984
This final report completes a self-study begun in August 1983 by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Academic Affairs Library to provide an opportunity for staff to lay the groundwork for services within a new facility. Broad areas identified for study were: effectiveness of services to users, coordination of public services throughout…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Information Needs, Information Services
Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. Office of Management Studies. – 1984
This self-study by Temple University Libraries involved the efforts of 33 library staff members--9 on the study team, and 24 on 4 task forces--over a period of 12 months. Task forces were organized according to four issues: Organization of Public Services, Staffing and Management, Public Service and Technology, and Library Users and Their Changing…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Information Needs, Information Services
Virginia Beach City Public Schools, VA. – 1988
This 5-year plan is based on "A Comprehensive Plan for Instructional and Administrative Use of Computers in the Virginia Beach Public Schools" ("The Pogrow Report," completed in December 1984) and the "Task Force Report on Information Systems" (completed in July 1988). These reports document the importance of making…
Descriptors: Administrators, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Database Management Systems
Park, Chung I. – COINT Reports, 1985
New information technologies have begun to help librarians transfer their routine procedures and tasks to nonprofessional staff and library users, which allows them to begin to be relieved from the boredom of glorified clerical work. Developments in information technology also allow librarians to see their work from new and different perspectives.…
Descriptors: Information Science, Information Scientists, Library Automation, Library Education
Gratch, Bonnie; And Others – 1988
This report of the Libraries and Learning Resource (LLR) Strategic Planning Task Force, which devised a 5-year strategic plan to serve as a road map for the next 3 to 5 years for libraries and learning resources staff, is divided into seven major sections: (1) the introduction, which discusses the development of the plan; (2) a brief summary of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Administrative Organization, Higher Education
Wisconsin State Dept. of Public Instruction, Madison. Div. of Library Services. – 1987
This report from the governor-appointed Council on Library and Network Development (COLAND), which makes recommendations for updating the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction's library automation policy, comprises a summary of the council's recommendations and 14 issue papers. These papers, which make up the major part of the report, are…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Bibliographic Databases, Bibliographic Utilities, Government Role
New York State Library, Albany. – 1981
Recommendations designed to facilitate library development in the state of New York are presented in categories reflecting the five goals agreed upon by committee members: (1) the assurance of maximum access to all forms of information for all residents of the state; (2) the sharing of resources as broadly and as effectively as possible; (3)…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Elementary Secondary Education, Futures (of Society), Higher Education
Breivik, Patricia Senn; And Others – 1982
Based on a need to assess current library strengths and weaknesses and to project potential library roles in supporting higher education, this master plan makes a series of recommendations to Colorado's academic libraries. It is noted that the plan was endorsed by both the Colorado Commission on Higher Education and the Colorado State Department…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cataloging, Higher Education, Interlibrary Loans
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