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Download full textCouncil on Library Resources, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1979
This report describes the activities and financial status of the Council on Library Resources (CLR) during the 1978-79 fiscal year. Contents include: listings of the members of CLR, its board of directors, the council committees and officers, and the council staff; an essay on CLR's 1978-79 year and its future; program highlights; a list of…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Budgets, Financial Support, Foundation Programs
CARL, HERBERT A. – 1966
INITIATED BY THE PLANNING COMMITTEE OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF STATE LIBRARIES AND SPONSORED BY THE LIBRARY SERVICES DIVISION, U.S. OFFICE OF EDUCATION, THIS CONFERENCE WAS HELD TO (1) DEMONSTRATE THE IMPORTANCE, URGENCY, AND IMMEDIATE NECESSITY FOR STATEWIDE LIBRARY PLANNING, (2) REVIEW THE PLANNING PROCESS AND SPECIFY STEPS NECESSARY FOR THE…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Libraries, Library Cooperation, Library Research
Lyle, Jack W. – 1980
An application of the diffusion of innovations theory to library marketing, this study was designed to determine what channels of knowledge are more effective in persuading undergraduate students to adopt the use of library public services. To explore this topic at the local level, the following question was formulated: By what communication…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), College Libraries, Diffusion, Higher Education
ORI, Inc., Bethesda, MD. Information Systems Div. – 1978
This directory of projects highlights research advances in the areas of library cooperation and networks, services to special target groups, administration and new technology, new types of library service, and improvement of training. Each project record contains information about the institution, geographic location, principal investigator,…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Information Services, Library Administration, Library Cooperation
Rees, Alan M.; And Others – 1968
The objective of the research described in this report is to design, implement, and evaluate educational offerings for hospital library personnel. Survey work is providing a data bank concerning the location, facilities, resources, functions, budget, services, and personnel of all hospital libraries in Ohio. These data are being supplemented with…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Curriculum Development, Educational Improvement, Feasibility Studies
Yeatts, Wendell A., Jr.; Reilly, Kevin D. – 1967
The purpose of the Library of Congress Machine-Readable Cataloging (MARC) pilot project was to provide libraries with catalog data encoded on magnetic tape in order to determine the feasibility of centralized computerized cataloging in support of library functions. Sixteen participants were selected on the basis of expressed interest, available…
Descriptors: Automation, Cataloging, College Libraries, Computer Programs
National Advisory Commission on Libraries, Washington, DC. – 1967
Objectives of this survey were : (1) to assess the recent history, current status, and trends of school libraries, and (2) to outline alternative approaches to the solution of major problems. A literature review, interviews, and field visits revealed that school library service is undergoing rapid development because of school library professional…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Federal Legislation, Financial Support, Labor Needs
Association of Coll. and Research Libraries, Chicago, IL. – 1975
The basic documents on faculty status for librarians in colleges and universities are compiled. The first chapter contains a history and overview of university librarians' status and discussions of such topics as professionalism, the librarian's role, tenure, academic freedom, evaluation, titles and ranks, professional growth, research, and…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Academic Rank (Professional), College Libraries, Contracts
Reed, Jeffrey G. – 1976
The critical incident technique was used to identify several environmental dimensions relevant to the assessment of a college library, in this case the Cook Library of Towson State College, Maryland. Students were asked to fill out forms describing positive and negative encounters with the library and library staff and to complete a general…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Critical Incidents Method, Higher Education, Library Collections
Bourne, Charles P.; And Others – 1974
In order to identify and explain the reasons for differences in average on-line search rates among terminal installations, the operations and performance of several facilities using the Lockheed DIALOG system for on-line searching of the ERIC data base were studied. Detailed examinations were made of such aspects as the DIALOG system response time…
Descriptors: Databases, Electronic Equipment, Information Retrieval, Information Systems
Stone, Elizabeth W.; And Others – 1974
Continuing education is needed for professionals in the library and information science areas so that they may provide the best possible service in a time of expanding knowledge and information delivery systems. The Continuing Library Education Network and Exchange (CLENE) is proposed as a result of a nine-month study completed for the National…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Information Dissemination, Information Networks, Information Scientists
Daiute, Robert J.; Gorman, Kenneth A. – 1974
Statistical sampling techniques for the measurement of book readership within libraries are described. The procedures, developed and initially implemented at Rider College, rely upon interviews of book readers inside the library rather than upon such indirect usage measures as which volumes are lift on tables for reshelving, or analyses of user…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Computer Programs, Libraries, Library Research
Olson, Paul E.; Pletzke, Chester J. – 1975
A cost-benefit analysis of the 43-library, 260,000-title Midwest Medical Union Catalog (MMUC) of books, conducted from June, 1973, through May, 1975, under a grant from the National Library of Medicine, studied the 49-year-old catalog in the context of the interlibrary loan activity of the Midwest Health Science Library Network. The study tested…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Databases, Information Dissemination, Interlibrary Loans
Peer reviewedHatfield, Henry C.; Stein, Jack M. – Die Unterrichtspraxis, 1968
The procedure for conducting graduate German literary seminars at Harvard is outlined. The seminar schedule is explained in terms of the entire course and of weekly work. Such features as choice of subject for research, group discussion, oral progress reports, and presentation of seminar papers are described. The selection of seminar subject and…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, German, Graduate Study, Library Research
Zunde, Pranas, Ed. – 1974
This volume represents a partial collection of papers scheduled for presentation at the 37th conference of the American Society for Information Science, held October 13-17, 1974. The 57 papers are grouped into 10 sections roughly corresponding to the 10 technical sessions of the conference: implications for information utility, data base…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Conference Reports, Databases, Information Science
