NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 6 results Save | Export
Berenstein, Max; Katz, Demian – Computers in Libraries, 2012
Academic, government, and corporate librarians organize and leverage internal resources and content through institutional repositories and library catalogs. Getting more value and usage from the content they license is a key goal. However, the ever-growing amount of content and shifting user demands for new materials or features has made the…
Descriptors: Library Services, Librarians, Archives, Catalogs
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Kohn, Karen; McCloy, Eric – Journal of Web Librarianship, 2010
Landman Library is two-thirds of the way through a three-stage process of migrating to the Koha open-source integrated library system (http://koha-community.org). We are an academic library with roughly 143,000 volumes, six professional librarians, and three support staff. The migration to open source was driven by the desire to access our own…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Services, Library Automation, Library Development
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Shank, John; Bell, Steven – Innovate: Journal of Online Education, 2006
John Shank and Steven Bell describe A_FLIP (Administrators, Faculty, Librarians Instructional Partnership), a model of professional collaboration that promotes the fuller integration of appropriate library resources into the overall structure of course management systems as well as the online design of specific courses. As they outline their…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Exhibits, Library Services, Librarians
Lockwood, Annette – American Libraries, 1996
The bookmobile of Lancaster County Library (Pennsylvania) provides library services to the home schooled children of isolated, rural communities. Home schooling and bookmobile usage have increased proportionally, and bookmobiles act as "library periods" for the home schooled, provide materials to support curricula, and supply…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Bookmobiles, Community Benefits, Educational Resources
Lance, Keith Curry; Rodney, Marcia J.; Hamilton-Pennell, Christine – 2000
This study establishes the link between the presence of adequate school library staffing and higher academic achievement as indicated by PSSA (Pennsylvania System of School Assessment) reading scores. School library staffing is correlated with such scores; as library staffing rises, reading scores rise. This correlation is not explained away by…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Correlation, Elementary Secondary Education
Lance, Keith Curry; Rodney, Marcia J.; Hamilton-Pennell, Christine – 2000
This document reports on a project that examined the impact of school library media centers on academic achievement in Pennsylvania. The project also determined the impact on academic achievement of: specific activities of certified school librarians; principal and teacher support of school library programs; and information technology,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Correlation, Elementary Secondary Education