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Yang, Zheng Ye (Lan); da Conturbia, Sandra – Journal of Government Information, 1998
Presents results from a survey examining how academic libraries in the United States manage and promote their state document collections. A questionnaire focusing on general information, coordination of state documents, use of state documents, and electronic access to state documents was distributed to 350 libraries with 277 returned. (Author/AEF)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Electronic Libraries, Government Publications
Behrman, Sara – Library Administration & Management, 1994
Discussion of intellectual freedom, access to information, and public library administration focuses on three main areas: (1) access to minors; (2) access to library services by the poor, including library card registration policies that require a permanent address; and (3) charging fines and fees. Information equality and access to Internet are…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Adolescents, Children, Computer Networks
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Cohen, Elaine – Library Trends, 1994
Explains the planning process in designing effective library facilities and discusses library building requirements that result from electronic information technologies. Highlights include historical structures; Americans with Disabilities Act; resource allocation; electrical power; interior spaces; lighting; design development; the roles of…
Descriptors: Architects, Costs, Electrical Systems, Electronic Libraries
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Lott, Carolyn – Knowledge Quest, 2003
Discusses how the author used administrative skills learned as a school library media specialist to meet the demands of a university department chair. Topics include the influence of decisions that are made; budgeting; evaluation concerns and responsibilities; determining guidelines and goals; political concerns; and the flow of information. (LRW)
Descriptors: Budgeting, Decision Making, Department Heads, Elementary Secondary Education
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Tolppanen, Bradley P.; Slough, Marlene – Journal of Access Services, 2003
This article presents the experience of Circulation Services at Booth Library, Eastern Illinois University, during a 31-month relocation to temporary facilities while the building was undergoing renovation. The move to temporary locations presented new challenges and required unique solutions. Issues such as the rationale for the move to the…
Descriptors: Library Services, Geographic Location, Relocation, Library Development
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Herzog, Susan – Acquisitions Librarian, 2004
In the down-sized academic library of the twenty-first century, many librarians with little or no formal collection development training or experience are being entrusted with large departmental budgets, occasionally without the collaboration of a department liaison. How do new librarians, or librarians new to a discipline, deal with this…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Services, Librarians, Library Development
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Aina, L. O. – Education for Information, 2005
The paper traces the inability of the curricula of LIS schools in Africa to respond to the immediate job environment in Africa. The main weakness of the curricula is that they reflect essentially the curricula of LIS schools in the Western World. Thus, while most of the LIS curricula are relevant to the traditional library setting, the curricula…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Information Science Education, Information Management, Public Relations
Woodsworth, Anne; Williams, James F., II – 1993
The purpose of this book is to identify and describe the most important factors that must be considered in making decisions about the optimal ways to provide access to information: the best ways to use the humans, machines, and intangible resources known as information, especially at the organizational level. It provides a framework for…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Contracts, Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making
Rounds, Laura, Ed.; Matthews, Michael, Ed. – 1995
This document contains conference papers, other speeches, and supplementary material from the first International Conference on Total Quality Management (TQM) and Academic Libraries, held in 1994. The conference was comprised of four sessions, and the introductory remarks of each are included, along with transcriptions of each session's…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Annotated Bibliographies, Benchmarking, Case Studies
Howard, Patricia – 1995
Very little has been written about Bible college libraries in the United States, even though they have been in existence since the early 1880s. This study presents the history of Cincinnati Bible College Library, tracing its development from its inception in 1928 over the years and showing how it has followed the mission statement of its parent…
Descriptors: Biblical Literature, College Libraries, Higher Education, Library Administration
Texas State Library, Austin. Library Development Div. – 1997
This publication provides a compilation of Texas statutes relating to libraries and topics of interest to librarians through the 74th Legislature, 1995. In addition to laws in which the words "library,""books,""Texas State Library,""Library and Archives Commission," and "director and librarian"…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Archives, County Libraries, Elementary Secondary Education
Crawford, John C. – 1995
Glasgow Caledonian University Library (Scotland) conducted a pilot study to design a set of user chosen performance measures which can be used in British academic libraries for data collection. Members of 8 stakeholder groups were identified and given an 103-question survey, with each question to be rated on a 1-5 scale of importance. Stakeholder…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Data Collection, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries
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Alabama Public Library Service, Montgomery. – 1995
This report includes directories of public libraries, single-county public library systems, multi-county public library systems, and multi-type library systems in Alabama. Cross references are included to provide access to the libraries by library name and librarian. Statistics on individual libraries for fiscal year 1995 provide data on service…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Directories, Income, Library Administration
Burger, Leslie; Weaver, Barbara – 1995
The need for new standards has arisen in Florida public libraries as a result of the library profession's shift from quantitative, input-based standards to qualitative, output-based standards to measure library performance and excellence. The standards in this document were developed after over 100 participants identified subjects to be addressed…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Community Relations, Cooperation, Financial Support
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Alabama Public Library Service, Montgomery. – 1994
This report includes directories of public libraries, single-county public library systems, multi-county public library systems, and multi-type library systems in Alabama. Cross references are included to provide access to the libraries by library name and librarians. Statistics on individual libraries for fiscal year 1994 provide data on outlets…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Directories, Income, Library Administration
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