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Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. Office of Management Studies. – 1974
This Systems and Procedures Exchange Center (SPEC) kit on affirmative action programs contains planning documents and policy statements on affirmative action and equal employment opportunity from universities and Association of Research Libraries (ARL) member libraries. The kit comprises: (1) "Affirmative Action Plan for the University Library"…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Affirmative Action, Employment Practices, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. Office of Management Studies. – 1974
This Systems and Procedures Exchange Center (SPEC) kit contains a collection of representative documents on performance review procedures in academic and research libraries. The kit comprises: (1) performance appraisal forms from the Stanford University Libraries; (2) a rating scale evaluation form and an essay evaluation form for professional…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Job Performance
Zeidner, Nancy I., Comp. – 1976
This Systems and Procedures Exchange Center (SPEC) kit compiled by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) contains documents pertaining to bibliographic access in ARL libraries. Data collected in a 1975 SPEC user services survey are presented in two tables to illustrate new, eliminated, and planned services in ARL libraries and methods of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Cataloging, Higher Education
Wyly, Mary – 1986
While there is general agreement regarding the educational and cultural advantages of exhibits, research and academic libraries often adapt the operating guidelines and procedures of exhibit planning and installation from museums and other non-library institutions. To discover procedures and policies developed specifically for research libraries…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Administrative Policy, Exhibits, Higher Education
Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. Office of Management Studies. – 1975
This kit presents the results of a survey conducted by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) in 1974 to investigate and document various experiences of academic and research libraries in reclassifying portions of collections or entire collections and the relationship between libraries' particular classification schemes on effective…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cataloging, Classification, Higher Education
Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. Office of Management Studies. – 1976
A result of the Association of Research Libraries' (ARL) November 1975 Services Survey, this kit presents statistical studies developed from management information sources such as circulation records or generated expressly for a particular study. While academic and research libraries maintain statistical records measuring library efficiency or…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Information Needs, Library Services
Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. Office of Management Studies. – 1977
Responses from 54 libraries to a 1977 survey of Association of Research Libraries (ARL) member institutions and interviews by Office of Management Studies staff members who visited another 15 indicated that 20 of the 69 libraries had and made use of a written collection development policy. Eight others reported that such a policy was being…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Library Acquisition, Library Material Selection
Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. Office of Management Studies. – 1977
A 1977 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) survey gathered information and documentation on remote storage for selected library materials, including type and size of facilities, selection processes for transferring materials, operating procedures, and record-changing activities. A summary of the survey results included in this kit reports…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Costs, Higher Education, Library Facilities
Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. Office of Management Studies. – 1979
A 1979 Systems and Procedures Exchange Center (SPEC) survey focused on reviewing the current state of fiscal planning and cost studies in Association of Research Libraries (ARL) member libraries. The survey results indicate that, while some libraries are beginning to use cost analysis techniques to evaluate current programs, to plan for new…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cost Effectiveness, Cost Estimates, Financial Policy
Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. Office of Management Studies. – 1980
This Systems and Procedures Exchange Center (SPEC) kit on affirmative action programs, which replaces an earlier SPEC kit on affirmative action, contains planning documents from Association of Research Libraries (ARL) member institutions and policy statements on affirmative action and equal employment opportunity from several universities. The kit…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Affirmative Action, Employment Practices, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. Office of Management Studies. – 1980
Of the 53 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) member institutions that responded to a 1980 Systems and Procedures Exchange Center (SPEC) call for Anglo American Cataloging Rules Second Edition (AACR 2) implementation studies, 37 had looked at the impact of the new code on library operations, while 16 indicated they had not done a formal study…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cataloging, Higher Education, Information Seeking
Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. Office of Management Studies. – 1980
Findings from a March 1980 Systems and Procedures Exchange Center (SPEC) survey on preservation indicated that more than one-fourth of the members of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) had written disaster plans, and many other plans were in preparation. This SPEC kit on preparing for emergencies and disasters comprises excerpts from…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Case Studies, Emergency Programs, Higher Education
Lynden, Frederick C. – 1983
Replacing a January 1980 publication of the same title, this collection of cost tables and other documentation from library materials cost studies conducted by members of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) or by library vendors contains excerpts from: (1) local cost studies conducted at Colorado State University, Indiana University, Iowa…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Books, Cost Indexes, Data Collection
Lynden, Frederick C. – 1985
To gather data on the extent and nature of union activities in Association of Research Libraries (ARL) member institutions, the Systems and Procedures Exchange Center (SPEC) developed a two-page survey which was distributed in April 1985 to the entire membership. ARL libraries were asked about degree of past and current unionization, types of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Collective Bargaining, Contracts, Grievance Procedures
Arthur, Gwen, Ed. – 2000
Since 1989, the Reference and User Services Association/Management and Operation of User Services Section's Management of Reference Committee has successfully used case studies to foster structured discussions among public service librarians on a wide variety of issues relating to managing change in reference services. The information offered in…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Case Studies, Change, Group Discussion
