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Download full textWellons, Jeanice – 1968
The handbook is a combination and incorporation of two previously published handbooks. The approach has been expanded to emphasize the role of the local library in relation to other libraries, library systems, the State Library and library cooperative programs. The services of modern libraries has become increasingly complex, and involves all…
Descriptors: Administration, Guides, Library Cooperation, Library Services
Five Associated Univ. Libraries, Syracuse, NY. – 1971
The Joint Serials Control System includes a total of 38 libraries on three campuses. Twelve have independent technical service units for processing serials and 26 are dependent libraries. The objective of Phase I of this Project is to identify feasible alternative system configurations and provide a basis for their evaluation so that the contract…
Descriptors: Automation, College Libraries, Library Cooperation, Library Technical Processes
Colorado Library Association, Denver. – 1971
The trustee needs to continue the traditional responsibility of fulfilling a public trust and, in addition, must accept the new commitments to meet the services people are demanding. Economically and practically, this means learning to think in terms of total library service to the community, the region, the state and even the nation. This…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrators, Guides, Libraries
Little (Arthur D.), Inc., Cambridge, MA. – 1968
The results of a study conducted by Arthur D. Little, Inc. (ADL) for the North Carolina State Library to prepare a statewide development plan that will promote improved library service are reported. Basic to this study was the development of guidelines for administering a program of state funding for local public library service. The assignment…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Library Services, Public Libraries, State Aid
Texas State Library, Austin. – 1972
This pamphlet is intended to be nothing more than a compilation of the statutes of Texas dealing with libraries and librarians. It is for the convenience of those connected with or interested in libraries and is not meant to be relied upon to settle complex legal issues. The present publication is an expansion and revision of an earlier…
Descriptors: Archives, County Libraries, Librarians, Libraries
Congress of the U. S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. – 1972
In April 1971, the chairman of the Subcommittee on Census and Statistics requested that the General Accounting Office (GAO) conduct a management-type review of the adequacy of services furnished by the Presidential libraries. The assignment called for an examination of: (1) the adequacy of the libraries' systems for cataloging materials and making…
Descriptors: Federal Government, Government Libraries, Investigations, Library Services
Warshasky, Stanford – 1976
The Silas Bronson Library in Waterbury, Connecticut received a state grant in 1976 to provide increased accessibility to their services through a books-by-mail program. In 1975, 9,750 catalogs listing the books-by-mail collection were mailed to local households. Newspaper publicity requested that households that received the catalogs share them…
Descriptors: Catalogs, Library Circulation, Library Services, Outreach Programs
Pitkin, Gary M. – 1976
All articles cited in "Library Literature" between 1949 and 1974 dealing with automation of serials control, but not including articles on union lists or other cooperative projects, are listed and annotated. The articles are presented in chronological order, providing a history of the topic. Entries include the "Library Literature" citation…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Libraries, Library Automation, Library Technical Processes
Peer reviewedReid, Marion T. – College and Research Libraries, 1976
Effects of budget adversity on acquisitions procedures in research libraries were studied through visits to ten ARL (Association of Research Libraries) libraries, interviews with more than 100 individuals, a literature search, and consultation of current ARL library annual reports. (Author)
Descriptors: Budgets, Financial Support, Library Acquisition, Library Administration
Bagg, Thomas C. – Drexel Library Quarterly, 1975
The future of microforms in the library is great. What forms new advances take will depend, unfortunately, upon the kinds of systems being developed for other than library applications. (Author)
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Libraries, Library Equipment, Library Role
Peer reviewedPhinazee, Annette L. – Journal of Education for Librarianship, 1976
The education of Early Childhood Library Specialists was initiated at the School of Library Science at North Carolina Central University, Durham in 1970. (Author)
Descriptors: Library Education, Library Services, Library Surveys, Surveys
Peer reviewedMacPherson, Mary – Canadian Library Journal, 1976
An examination of historiography in the context of library collections suggests that there exists between the library and the disciplines it houses a relationship in which the collection structures itself to meet the demands made upon materials of individual disciplines and determines the demands which can be made upon those materials. (Author/PF)
Descriptors: Historiography, History, Library Acquisition, Library Collections
Aveney, Brian – American Libraries, 1976
A profile of Marty Martelle, director of the Sacramento City-County Library System. (PF)
Descriptors: Librarians, Library Administration, Library Directors, Professional Recognition
Peer reviewedCohn, William L. – College and Research Libraries, 1976
Presents a description for the period 1933-1973 of directors of U.S. academic libraries that are members of the Association of Research Libraries, comparing earlier and present directors in terms of academic preparation, age, sex, and destination upon leaving a directorship. (Author)
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, College Libraries, Librarians, Library Directors
American Libraries, 1977
Six outstanding librarians comment on the Mission Statement from ALA's Public Library Association Goals, Guidelines, and Standards Committee. (JPF)
Descriptors: Attitudes, Guidelines, Library Associations, Library Services
