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Privatizing Libraries
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Jerrard, Jane; Bolt, Nancy; Strege, Karen – ALA Editions, 2012
This timely special report from ALA Editions provides a succinct but comprehensive overview of the "privatization" of public libraries. It provides a history of the trend of local and state governments privatizing public services and assets, and then examines the history of public library privatization right up to the California…
Descriptors: Privatization, Public Libraries, Library Services, State Legislation
Reference Is Better than We Thought.
Richardson, John V., Jr. – Library Journal, 2002
Discusses measurement techniques for determining good reference service and describes results from a study of 12 public libraries in California that investigated reference service. Topics include inconsistent reference studies that showed reference service giving good results half of the time; and measuring unrelated outcomes of accuracy, utility,…
Descriptors: Library Services, Measurement Techniques, Public Libraries, Reference Services
Library Training Institute for Service to the Deaf. Proceedings (California State University, Fullerton, California, July 31-August 11, 1978).
Sadoski, Doris; And Others – 1978
This 10-day institute provided its 26 participants with: (1) presentations on the need for and methods of providing library services for the deaf and hearing impaired, covering such topics as the cataloging and acquisition of deaf material, and Braille Institute and Library of Congress resources for the physically handicapped; (2) field trips to a…
Descriptors: Captions, Communication Aids (for Disabled), Deaf Interpreting, Deafness
Student/Teacher-Librarian Ratio: In Crisis. California Dreamin'.
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Moore, Richard – Emergency Librarian, 1993
Discusses the lack of library services in California, which has the lowest librarian to student ratio of any state in the nation. The need for standards for library accreditation, strategies for publicizing the conditions in California, and the effort to pass new legislation to generate support for California's school libraries are described. (KRN)
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Elementary Secondary Education, Financial Support, Learning Resources Centers
California's Reference Crisis.
Childers, Thomas A. – Library Journal, 1994
Social and economic issues affecting the vitality of public libraries in California are discussed. A 1993 study by the California State Library identified diminishing reference skills and reference collections, reduced funding which impacted staffing, increased demand, technology change, and language/culture issues as contributing factors to…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Library Collections, Library Networks, Library Role
Using Public Library Reference Collections and Staff.
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Childers, Thomas A. – Library Quarterly, 1997
Three studies examined public library reference services use by patrons in Anglo, Hispanic, and Vietnamese communities in California. Interview questions concerned search topics, use of staff help, perceived usefulness of search result, successful search strategies, reasons for not seeking help, foreknowledge of sources, reasons for using the…
Descriptors: Ethnic Studies, Information Retrieval, Information Seeking, Library Collections
Books, Books, Books--Let Us Read: A Library Serving Sheltered and Incarcerated Youth.
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Carlson, Pam – Voice of Youth Advocates, 1994
Describes the growth and development of a library program serving a shelter for abused and neglected children and youth and a juvenile detention center in Orange County (California). Program funding, materials preferred by teen users, library management, special events, and problems are discussed. Teen patrons and their use of the services are…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Adolescents, Child Abuse, Child Neglect