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Download full textPiccininni, James – 1993
Guidelines are given for automating a library. Issues arising in automation are illustrated through the experience of the Doherty Library of the University of St. Thomas, Houston (Texas). The first step is to decide what type of system is right for the needs of the library and its patrons. In considering vendors of systems, it is important to…
Descriptors: Budgeting, College Libraries, Computer Software Selection, Cost Effectiveness
McCallon, Mark – 1993
The availability of serials through databases has provided libraries with a new format for acquiring information. The extent to which the growth in electronic databases can help the librarian control costs while meeting the demand of accrediting agencies was studied through an exploratory survey of the 48 specialized accrediting agencies of the…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Accreditation (Institutions), Accrediting Agencies, Computer Networks
Morris, Betty J.; And Others – 1992
This guide brings together all aspects of administration of a school media center in light of the new qualitative standards in "Information Power: Guidelines for School Library Media Programs." The book focuses on practical considerations within a single school as reflected in the new developments in organizing and administering the…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation, Guidelines
Adams, Kate; Cassner, Mary – 1998
This paper presents a program overview of library services to distance education students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). In the fall of 1997, a survey on use of library services was sent to students in an interdepartmental master's program. Questions focused on the use of the library online catalog, the World Wide Web, and the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Distance Education, Graduate Study
Pica, Leiden (Netherlands). – 1992
The Open Library Network (OBN) is intended to connect national and local university library systems in the Netherlands. OBN integrates existing automated library systems and procedures and brings services like catalog searching and document delivery to the desk of the library user. Project results can be grouped into four categories: (1) the new…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Delivery Systems, Foreign Countries, Integrated Library Systems
Molnar, John E. – 1992
The Virginia Council of Higher Education annually collects a variety of data on the activities of academic institutions in the state. This report presents data on the activities of Virginia's academic libraries during the 1990-91 academic year. Data are reported on collections, staff, expenditures, costs for monographs and periodicals, services…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Costs, Higher Education, Interlibrary Loans
Wisconsin State Dept. of Public Instruction, Madison. – 1991
Highlighting the issues that confront small libraries who are exploring automation options, this report focuses on microcomputer-based automation systems for circulation and an online patron access catalog (OPAC). The information provided outlines some of the questions that librarians must ask themselves or vendors before they select a specific…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Computer Software Evaluation, Costs, Database Management Systems
Manitoba Dept. of Education, Winnipeg. Instructional Resources Branch. – 1991
This report has been prepared as an evaluation instrument to help educators at the school, school division/district, and provincial levels evaluate, identify, and select a comprehensive school library automation system. The report presents a checklist of items to consider when evaluating school library automation systems and it can be used to…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Check Lists, Databases, Elementary Secondary Education
Burnham, Brian; Taylor, Audrey – 1982
The developmental research project described investigated means of improving access to materials in Ontario school resource centers to increase center utilization. The objective of this York Region project was to determine whether, by linking together the power of three computerized systems--MARC (MAchine-Readable Cataloging), COM, (Computer…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Automatic Indexing, Cataloging, Computer Output Microfilm
Richards, Mary – 1987
This report describes a three-stage catalog use study conducted at the University of Wisconsin-Stout from 1982 through 1986 to determine the types of searches conducted and search success rates for both the card and online catalogs during the library's transition to the DataPhase Automated Library Information System (ALIS). Phase I, conducted…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Card Catalogs, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education
Smulyan, Marilyn Hope – 1989
Passage of library bonds in November 1988 provided momentum to create a new library system for San Francisco. To be successful, this endeavor demanded that the entire library program be evaluated and reassessed, and renovations to the branch libraries had to be made on a systemwide basis. Funding from the library bonds could be used only for…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Citizen Participation, Community Surveys, Library Automation
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1989
This document records testimony given in the state of Montana before three members of the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education on the reauthorization of the Library Services and Construction Act (LSCA). (The first and still the largest federal program of assistance specifically for public libraries, LSCA is…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Construction Programs, Federal Aid, Federal Legislation
van Zijl, Philippus Lodewikus van S. – 1986
This study on the development of Southern African Third World States' academic libraries embraces three broad areas: (1) the multimedia library; (2) the development of university libraries in the Third World; and (3) the potential usefulness of the multimedia library in the conditions prevailing in the Third World. Searches of the literature on…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Kratzert, Mona Y. – 1989
The implementation of a wide range of CD-ROM services in the California State University (Fullerton) libraries is described in this report. The three-part CD-ROM "Master Plan" outlines the library's fundamental technological goals--i.e., to offer university-level technologies, to develop a CD-ROM end-user facility with ample resources and…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Bibliographic Databases, Information Retrieval, Library Automation
Holibaugh, Ralph – 1987
This SPEC (Systems and Procedures Exchange Center) kit provides a sample of excerpts from technical and planning documents contributed by 40 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) member libraries that are planning to install or have already implemented optical disc technology. Selected to represent a variety of media and applications, the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Higher Education, Information Storage
