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Ransom, Charles G. – Microform Review, 1994
Lists approximately 250 microforms from the University of Michigan library that relate to African Americans. Headings are biographies, civil rights, Civil War, colonization, economics, employment, freedmen, history, Michigan, music, news, papers, periodicals, politics, race, Reconstruction, religion, riots, segregation, slavery, social conditions,…
Descriptors: Biographies, Black Culture, Black History, Blacks
Commission on Preservation and Access Newsletter, 1995
The Commission on Preservation and Access was established to foster and support collaboration among libraries and allied organizations in order to ensure the preservation of the published and documentary records in all formats and to provide enhanced access to scholarly information. The Commission's newsletter keeps preservation and access…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Archives, Databases, Digital Computers
DePew, John N. – 1990
This final report presents the results of a survey conducted during 1989-90 which investigated the preservation needs of Florida's academic and public libraries. Data were collected via mail questionnaires sent to 516 libraries and a series of follow-up visits to 22 of the 374 libraries (72.5%) which responded to the survey. Information elicited…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Library Collections, Library Expenditures
Trinkaus-Randall, Gregor – 1990
As a result of a lack of information about the preservation of library and archives materials in Massachusetts libraries and records repositories, a survey was conducted to determine the preservation needs of public, academic and special libraries (including museums), manuscript repositories, historical societies and town clerks' offices. The…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Archives, Emergency Programs, Humidity
Mandel, Carol A.; Lichtenstein, Alexander – 1984
This report presents data compiled from the 117 libraries that were members of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) during the 1982/83 academic year, as well as an examination of data for trends in expenditures for the previous 15 years from the 75 academic libraries that were members throughout those years. Information includes data from…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Doctoral Programs, Enrollment, Higher Education
Mandel, Carol A., Comp. – 1982
This report presents data compiled from the 113 libraries that were members of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) during the 1981/82 academic year, as well as an examination of trends in ARL university libraries from 1975-76 through 1981-82. It is noted that the most important change in 1982 was the smaller rise in serials expenditure and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Doctoral Programs, Enrollment, Higher Education
New York State Library, Albany. Div. of Library Development. – 1990
This document is composed of clippings from news publications and press releases about projects funded by the New York State Discretionary Grant Program for Conservation and Preservation of Library Research Materials, which annually awards $500,000 to libraries, archives, historical societies, and similar agencies in New York State through…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Archives, Higher Education, Library Surveys
International Research and Exchange Board, New York, NY. – 1988
This document contains 13 papers by Soviet participants in the U.S.-U.S.S.R. Seminar on Access to Library Resources through Technology and Preservation: (1) "Automation of Information-Library Work at Scientific and Technical Libraries of the U.S.S.R." (A. S. Sorokin and V. M. Rostovtsev); (2) "Automated Information Systems for…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Computer Software, Foreign Countries, Government Libraries
Virgo, Julie A. C., Comp.; And Others – 1980
Based on the questionnaire used annually by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), this publication is a compilation of 1978-79 statistics from 98 non-ARL libraries located in U.S. or Canadian universities. It is noted that each university is one designated as a research or doctorate-granting university by the Carnegie Commission on Higher…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Doctoral Degrees, Doctoral Programs, Enrollment
Treu, Siegfried – 1980
The results of a one year study to identify potential technology-based improvements in the operation, access, and utilization of the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) are described. Both current problem areas and future possibilities are considered with respect to the dichotomy: system components and the total system. Emphasis is on…
Descriptors: Character Recognition, Computer Science, Data Processing, Improvement
Schwarzkopf, LeRoy C. – 1974
Based on 33 responses to mailed questionnaires, visits to selected regional depositories, and the author's personal experience as a regional depository librarian, this report analyzes the interpretation and implementation by the Superintendent of Documents, state library agencies, and depository libraries of key provisions of the Depository…
Descriptors: Depository Libraries, Federal Aid, Federal Legislation, Government Publications
International Council on Archives. Microfilm Committee. – 1973
The second bulletin of the Microfilm Committee of the International Council on Archives begins with a short history of the origins of the committee. A brief discussion of the committee's 1972 Moscow meeting follows, as does the table of contents of a book on microfilming standards which is being developed by the committee to be published by…
Descriptors: Archives, Communications, Information Dissemination, Information Storage
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Workman, William J. – College and University, 1988
College records continue to accumulate, and either new record-keeping technology must be implemented or new personnel hired. New technology is expensive, but not when capabilities, demands, and personnel requirements are considered. However, more advanced record-keeping necessitates more technically sophisticated staff. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Computer Oriented Programs, Equipment Evaluation, Higher Education
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Gay, Ruth – American Scholar, 1979
From the library's viewpoint, collection growth and the need to frequently update index terms make automation almost inevitable. But this triumph of technology over print is hard on scholars, who find microforms and printouts difficult to read and who cannot browse a database like a shelf or card catalog. (SJL)
Descriptors: Card Catalogs, Cataloging, Electromechanical Aids, Information Retrieval
New York State Education Dept., Albany. State Archives and Records Administration. – 1991
This reports provides local governments with guidelines and suggestions for selecting a Records Management Officer to develop, organize, and direct a records management program. Such a program is described as an over-arching, continuing, administrative effort that manages recorded information from its initial creation to its final disposition.…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Administrator Role, Administrator Selection, Administrators
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