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Peer reviewedGetz, Malcolm; Phelps, Doug – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1984
Investigates costs and operations of back office activities of three middle-sized research libraries focusing on costs of labor and effects of automation. Measuring costs, labor compensation differences, differences in hours per volume, differences in organization, reduction of labor costs due to automation, and the quality dimension are…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cataloging, Comparative Analysis, Compensation (Remuneration)
McNeil, Beth, Comp. – SPEC Kit, 2002
This SPEC (Systems and Procedures Exchange Center) Kit presents the results of a survey of Association of Research Libraries (ARL) member libraries designed to investigate the status of core competencies (i.e., the skills, knowledge, abilities, and attributes that employees across an organization are expected to have to contribute successfully…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Competence, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Download full textPerrault, Anna H. – 2002
In 2001, WorldCat, the primary international bibliographic utility, contained 45 million records with over 750 million library location listings. These records span over 4,000 years of recorded knowledge in 377 languages. Under the auspices of an OCLC/ALISE (Online Computer Library Center/Association of Library and Information Science Educators)…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Bibliographic Databases, Bibliographic Records, Cataloging
Weiner, Michael L.; Rusch, Peter F. – 1996
The DR-LINK (Document Retrieval through Linguist Knowledge) search system was created to help automate the process that research librarians use to convert information needs, as stated by users, into the information retrieval process. DR-LINK resulted from participation in the United States Government initiative called Tipster that was sponsored by…
Descriptors: Computer Interfaces, Information Retrieval, Information Seeking, Information Systems
Kyrillidou, Martha, Comp.; O'Connor, Michael, Comp. – 2000
This document reports 1999-2000 salary data for all professional staff working in ARL (Association of Research Libraries) libraries. Data for 8,595 professional staff members were reported for the 111 ARL university libraries, including their law and medical libraries (814 staff members reported by 69 medical libraries and 660 staff members…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Law Libraries
Goetsch, Lori, Comp. – SPEC Kit, 1999
The goals of this SPEC Kit were to report on the extent to which ARL (Association of Research Libraries) libraries provide electronic reference services and to offer a snapshot of the types of users reached, questions received, policies established, data-gathering techniques utilized, and innovations implemented. The first section of the kit…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Electronic Libraries, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Barrett, G. Jaia, Ed. – ARL, 1999
This document consists of six issues of the ARL (Association of Research Libraries) newsletter, covering the year 1999. Each issue includes some of the following sections: "Current Issues"; reports from SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), Coalition for Networked Information, Office of Leadership &…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Copyrights, Distance Education, Federal Legislation
Kyrillidou, Martha, Comp.; Young, Mark, Comp. – 2002
This document reports the 2001-2002 salary data for all professional staff working in ARL (Association of Research Libraries) libraries. Data for 9,198 professional staff members were reported for the 1,130 ARL university libraries, including their law and medical libraries (859 staff members reported by 69 medical libraries and 724 staff members…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Law Libraries
Stein, Joan, Ed.; Kyrillidou, Martha, Ed.; Davis, Denise, Ed. – 2002
This Fourth Northumbria International Conference on Performance Measurement in Libraries and Information Services centered on the theme of "meaningful measures for emerging realities" and contributors surveyed the field of performance measurement from that perspective. The proceedings begins with seven keynote and invited papers from…
Descriptors: Conference Proceedings, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries, Information Policy
Kyrillidou, Martha, Comp.; Young, Mark, Comp. – 2003
This document reports the 2001-2002 salary data for all professional staff working in ARL (Association of Research Libraries) libraries. Data for 9,469 professional staff members were reported for the 124 ARL university libraries, including their law and medical libraries (909 staff members reported by 69 medical libraries and 726 staff members…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Law Libraries
Ragsdale, Kate, Comp. – SPEC Kit, 2001
This SPEC (Systems and Procedures Exchange Center) Kit presents the results of a survey of Association of Research Libraries (ARL) member libraries designed to gather information about who has responsibility for the development, management, and maintenance of library World Wide Web sites and to determine which combination of human resources works…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Computer Uses in Education, Electronic Libraries, Foreign Countries
Kyrillidou, Martha, Comp.; Wetzel, Karen, Comp. – 2001
This document reports the 2000-2001 salary data for all professional staff working in ARL (Association of Research Libraries) libraries. Data for 8,882 professional staff members were reported for the 112 ARL university libraries, including their law and medical libraries (811 staff members reported by 68 medical libraries and 708 staff members…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Law Libraries
Council on Library and Information Resources, Washington, DC. – 2000
This annual report of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) begins with a list of staff, a letter for the Chairman of the Board, and a message from the CLIR President. Activities for 1999-2000 in the following areas are then summarized: (1) resources for scholarship, including the artifact in library collections,…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Annual Reports, Electronic Journals
Gwinn, Nancy E.; Haas, Warren J. – AGB Reports, 1981
Since libraries make obvious targets for economizing, their existence is threatened. Librarians have plans to save them, but strong support is needed from trustees and administrators. Library-faculty partnerships, resource sharing, and the applications of communications and computer technology to bibliographic processes are discussed. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Administrator Role, College Libraries, Cooperation
Peer reviewedCampos, Estela Morales – Resource Sharing & Information Networks, 1997
Argues that Mexican and other Latin American libraries must make changes to take advantage of increasingly available electronic information sources. Discusses developments in the previously paper-based publishing industry; the industry's relation with the academic and research environment; and Mexican electronic sources for the study of Latin…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Electronic Libraries, Electronic Publishing
