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Download full textLibrary of Congress, Washington, DC. – 1985
This booklet summarizes fiscal year 1984 activities of the Library of Congress (LC) in six areas: (1) collection development, housing, preservation, and access; (2) services to Congress performed by the Congressional Research Service and the Law Library; (3) library automation activities coordinated by the Automated Systems Office (ASO); (4)…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Library Acquisition, Library Administration, Library Automation
Browne, Mairead, Ed. – 1981
Pre-circulated papers, comments on these papers, documents compiled as a result of group discussion, and resolutions adopted at Australia's 1980 National Workshop on Joint-Use Libraries are presented. A joint-use library is defined as one in which two or more distinct groups of users are given equal priority in the same premises, the governance of…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Community Centers, Contracts, Foreign Countries
Heim, Kathleen M. – 1976
Cooperative library programs in Great Britain began with suggestions made in the 1915 Adams report commissioned by the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust. Following the report's recommendations and with grants from the trust, countries began library services to rural areas and the Central Library for Students (CLS) was formed and later became a…
Descriptors: Centralization, College Libraries, County Libraries, Decentralization
Freeman, Nancy J., Ed. – 1966
A survey was conducted to analyze the population and economic trends in North Dakota, the existing library resources and services, the roles of the State Library Commission and the State Historical Library, and the present library laws and to recommend a plan for long-range development of library services throughout the state. The survey team…
Descriptors: County Libraries, Economic Factors, Financial Support, Legislation
Young, Mark, Comp.; Kyrillidou, Martha, Comp. – 2002
This document presents results of the 2000-01 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Medical Library Statistics Questionnaire. Of 113 ARL university libraries, 63 responded to the survey. Results for each library are presented in the following data tables: (1) collections, including volumes in library, volumes added, monographs purchased, current…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Library Associations
Young, Mark, Comp.; Kyrillidou, Martha, Comp. – 2002
This document presents results of the 2000-01 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Law Library Statistics Questionnaire. Of 113 ARL university libraries, 75 responded to the survey. Results for each library are presented in the following data tables: (1) collections, including volumes in library, volumes added, monographs purchased, current…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Law Libraries
State Development and Use of Video Libraries to Improve Teacher Effectiveness. Race to the Top Brief
Reform Support Network, 2012
Several Race to the Top grantees are considering the development of video libraries as one element of their larger teacher and leader effectiveness reforms. Video libraries promise to offer "real world" examples of teaching practice that can be used for a wide range of purposes: providing teachers with concrete evidence of excellent…
Descriptors: State Policy, Educational Policy, Technology Uses in Education, Video Technology
Direct linkFletcher, Jo; Grimley, Michael; Greenwood, Janinka; Parkhill, Faye – Literacy, 2012
Teachers are influential in motivating and improving attitudes towards reading. This article reports on an investigation of eight teachers of 10- to 12-year-old students from five New Zealand schools and the strategies they used to improve attitudes to reading. Each school had been identified as implementing effective reading programmes by a panel…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Early Adolescents, Reading Instruction, Foreign Countries
Rolfe, Vivien – Research in Learning Technology, 2012
Attitudes are changing in education globally to promote the open sharing of educational courses and resources. The aim of this study was to explore staff awareness and attitudes towards "open educational resources" (OER) as a benchmark for monitoring future progress. Faculty staff (n = 6) were invited to participate in semi-structured…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Practices, Economic Factors, Educational Resources
Peer reviewedMcGrath, William E. – Library Resources and Technical Services, 1975
Descriptors: College Libraries, Library Acquisition, Library Expenditures, Library Materials
Peer reviewedEggleton, Richard – Library Resources and Technical Services, 1975
Presents the results of a questionnaire survey sent to 399 members of the Duplicates exchange Union. (PF)
Descriptors: Evaluation, Libraries, Library Acquisition, Library Cooperation
Gore, Daniel – Library Journal, 1975
By eliminating little-used books and buying multiple copies of popular titles, the usefulness of an academic library could be almost doubled without any need for increased space. (PF)
Descriptors: College Libraries, Library Circulation, Library Collections, Library Facilities
New York State Education Dept., Albany. – 1979
This is the 1980 edition of a directory to library systems and their member libraries in New York State compiled from information supplied by directors of the systems and state departments or agencies administering library programs. Listings are arranged regionally and alphabetically by the name of the Reference and Research Library Resources…
Descriptors: County Libraries, Library Networks, Public Libraries, School Libraries
Thompson, Donald E., Comp.; Rothacker, J. Michael, Comp. – 1970
The directory was compiled as part of the Indiana Library Studies. The list is arranged by public libraries, academic libraries, special libraries, libraries of Indiana state departments and institutions, school libraries, and historical societies. The name, address and telephone number are given for all libraries. (Author/NH)
Descriptors: Directories, Libraries, Public Libraries, School Libraries
Casey, Genevieve M. – 1970
The purpose of this study was to make recommendations on how the Indiana State Library should be structured to effect the coordination of resources and services in all types of libraries for the benefit of the citizens of Indiana. It was recommended that the Indiana State Library should: (1) convene a permanent council for the improvement of…
Descriptors: Library Collections, Library Networks, Library Planning, Library Services
