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Nelson Associates, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1966
This survey to determine how the library resources in the Buffalo-Niagara area might be utilized in a regional Reference and Research Library Resources (3R's) system studied: (1) area library resources, (2) strength of the libraries at the State University of New York at Buffalo (SUNY Buffalo) and the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library…
Descriptors: Business, Financial Support, Information Needs, Libraries
Gore, Daniel, Ed. – 1976
All of the contributions in this volume, except the last, were presented at a conference sponsored by the Associated Colleges of the Midwest, held in Chicago, April 17-18, 1975. Entitled "Touching Bottom in the Bottomless Pit," the conference was intended to open a national debate on space, growth, and performance problems of…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Citation Indexes, College Libraries, Conference Reports
Burgard, Andrea M. – 1974
In July, 1974, questionnaires were mailed to 90 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) member libraries, to determine their collection development methods: the degree of structure and formalization of the process, the role of collection development offices or committees, participation in certain decisions, the form and use of policies,…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Budgeting, College Libraries, Library Acquisition
Download full textMassachusetts Inst. of Tech., Cambridge. – 1971
The research activities of Project Intrex are directed toward the extension of man's intellectual reach by a new kind of control over access to information. Ways are sought to improve the efficiency of catalog search by utilization of interactive computing techniques, and to provide rapid access to full-text displays by utilizing microfilm storage…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Automation, Computers, Facsimile Transmission
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Div. of Library Development. – 1969
The New York State Reference and Research Resources Program (3R's) is a statewide program designed to serve the research community by ensuring speedy access to advanced research library materials for students and faculty in institutions of higher education, as well as for research workers in business and industry in the State. The program was…
Descriptors: Facsimile Transmission, Financial Support, Information Needs, Interlibrary Loans
Metcalf, Keyes D. – 1965
A nontechnical guide to many facets in the design of efficient libraries is presented for everyone concerned with library building planning. The author discusses--(1) the problems involved in planning libraries for the future, (2) the library objectives and their relation to aesthetic problems, quality of construction, function and cost, (3) the…
Descriptors: Building Design, Construction Costs, Equipment, Facility Guidelines
Mason, Elizabeth B., Ed.; Starr, Louis M., Ed. – 1973
This book is a catalog of the contents of the oral history collection at Columbia University. Entries are listed alphabetically by the person or group making the oral history recordings. Each entry includes the subject's full name and vocation, brief notes on the content of the oral recording, and an indication of the accessibility of the…
Descriptors: Catalogs, College Libraries, Communication (Thought Transfer), History
PDF pending restorationRajagopalan, T. S.; Ramaswami, K. – 1970
A survey of the resources and services of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) libraries was made so that the libraries in the complex could share the benefit of the experiences of each other. The report is based on questionnaire replies received from 31 CSIR Institutions and eight Co-operative Research Associations and relates…
Descriptors: Abstracting, Cataloging, Foreign Countries, Libraries
PDF pending restorationNew York State Education Dept., Albany. Div. of Library Development. – 1972
Current data on the officers, trustees, and member institutions of the Reference and Research Library Resources (3R's) systems in New York State are provided in this directory. Institutional data contain the names and addresses of member institutions, the name of the librarian or library director, the library's telephone number, and teletype…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Decentralization, Directories, Information Sources
Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. Office of Univ. Library Management Studies. – 1976
The Systems and Procedures Exchange Center (SPEC) of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) compiles these SPEC Kits as a means of sharing management techniques and expertise. The materials enclosed in each kit are reproductions of working tools developed by individual libraries to meet their specific purposes within a limited area of library…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Grievance Procedures, Library Acquisition, Library Administration
Peer reviewedWong, William S.; Zubatsky, David S. – College and Research Libraries, 1985
This study determines the current length of service among library directors at Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and non-ARL libraries and compares findings with similar investigations completed in early 1970s. Responses on gender, ethnic background, position titles, internal promotion, professional experience, degrees, and retirement and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Administrator Characteristics, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education
Information Reports and Bibliographies, 1986
Examines the effects of new technologies on scholarly communications, including changes in scholarly research and writings, the publishing industry, documentation of scholarly works, and users of records of scholarship. The research library's responsibility to collect, preserve, and make available records of scholarship is also discussed. (CLB)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Information Dissemination, Information Processing
Peer reviewedRogers, Gloria H. – Information Technology and Libraries, 1986
Description of the conversion of San Diego State University Library's Asian collection from catalog cards to online catalog through OCLC discusses technical problems involved in creating databases with Chinese, Japanese, and Korean vernacular characters. Ambiguities created by romanization and decision to convert the collection only in romanized…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Asian Studies, Higher Education, Information Retrieval
Peer reviewedLucker, Jay K. – Information Services and Use, 1985
Research libraries play essential role in the dissemination of both bibliographic and numerical information, including acquisition, processing, cataloging, retrieval, and document delivery. Most functions have been affected dramatically by application of the computer and library services at Massachusetts Institute of Technology that have evolved…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Genetic Engineering, Higher Education, Information Dissemination
Peer reviewedIrvine, Betty Jo – Library Trends, 1985
Reports results of study based upon analysis of factors that have militated against proportional representation of women as administrators in libraries belonging to Association of Research Libraries. Demographic and career variables are emphasized: family background and personal characteristics, mobility and career history, role models and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Administrators, Careers, Employed Women
