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Who Runs Your Library? Proceedings of the 1978 Library Trustees Conference (Montgomery, Alabama).
Matthews, M. S., Jr., Ed. – 1978
This report on the second annual conference sponsored by the Alabama Public Library Service (APLS) for public library trustees is an extension of the state's revitalized continuing education for this group, intended to better prepare them to meet their obligations and responsibilities to the libraries and communities they serve. Highlights of this…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Governing Boards, Legal Responsibility, Library Administration
The Economics and Financial Management of Research Libraries. A Report on an Exploratory Meeting.
Research Libraries Group, Branford, CT. – 1982
A major conclusion reached by 18 university, academic and administrative officers, library directors, economists and management specialists, who met in October 1981 to explore issues related to the financial management of academic research libraries, is that current approaches to cost reduction are only short-term solutions. These approaches are…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Libraries, Higher Education, Library Administration
Confronting the Future: University Libraries in the Next Decade. Proceedings of a Conference at The University of New South Wales (Kensington, New South Wales, Australia, June 12, 1992).
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Rayward, W. Boyd, Ed. – 1992
The conference that generated these papers focused on the range of issues presently facing university libraries. Because there is no general consensus on the nature or importance of the most substantive problems or the solutions to those problems, the conference was designed to encourage discussion of the issues. An analysis of a series of recent…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Change Strategies, Electronic Libraries, Financial Support
Collections: Their Development, Management, Preservation, and Sharing. Papers from the Joint Meeting of the Association of Research Libraries and the Standing Conference of National and University Libraries (York, England, September 19-22, 1988).
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Daval, Nicola, Ed. – 1989
Papers from the joint meeting are assembled in this document. Each of the meeting's five program sessions featured presentations by a Standing Conference of National and Universal Libraries (SCONUL) director and an Association of Research Libraries (ARL) director. The presentations highlight perspectives from both sides of the Atlantic and are…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Information Technology
Technology and the Future of Scholarly Exchange. Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the Association of Research Libraries (114th, Providence, Rhode Island, May 10-12, 1989).
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Harvey, Diane, Ed. – 1990
This membership meeting of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) focused on the impact of the new information technologies on scholarly exchange. The program was organized into two sessions comprising 11 papers in all. In the first session, three influential leaders presented papers exploring different aspects of the conference topic. In the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Information Networks, Information Technology
The Leadership Role in Library Fund Raising. Minutes of the Membership Meeting of the Association of Research Libraries (120th, Charleston, South Carolina, May 13-15, 1992).
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Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. – 1993
The "Leadership Role in Library Fund Raising" was selected as the program theme for the 120th meeting of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) to call attention to the changing scene of fund raising in higher education. Session 1 set the stage with an overview of the leadership role of library fund raising in the context of the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Conference Proceedings, Decentralization, Financial Support