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Download full textGetrost, Christina D. – 1993
The Kent Free Library (Ohio) evolved from the Great Atlantic and Western Railroad Reading Room of 1875, into a municipal Carnegie library, and then grew to be a medium-sized public school district library, in the city of Kent, Ohio. Its original building has been enlarged through three separate expansion campaigns, in order to have space to house…
Descriptors: Library Circulation, Library Collections, Library Development, Library Facilities
Steiner, Marilyn C. – 1991
With the results of the first national survey of children's library services in the United States to be finalized in 1991, a historical perspective on library service is warranted to add comparative value to the new findings. The Youngstown (Ohio) Public Library, which began with a small collection in 1880, traces its history of children's…
Descriptors: Childrens Libraries, Childrens Literature, History, Library Circulation
Bordelon, Kathie – 1990
This paper examines the efforts made by the American Library Association (ALA) and the Mexican Border Traveling Library Service (MBTLS) to ensure that remote World War I outposts, such as the Gerstner Field aviation and military training camp in Louisiana, would have adequate library service. A history of the MBTLS' early organizational success,…
Descriptors: Library Circulation, Library Collection Development, Library Services, Military Air Facilities
Peer reviewedUrquhart, D. J. – Journal of Documentation, 1981
Questions the soundness of the creation of the British Library and whether it has met its originators' expectations. Reviews its historical development, facility and staffing problems, the Lending Division, the Bibliographical Services Division, and the Research and Development Department. Seven references are listed. (RBF)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, History, Interlibrary Loans, Library Circulation
Peer reviewedBloomfield, B. C. – Journal of Documentation, 1981
Traces the development of the British Library since its founding in 1973 and discusses problems and achievements in the library as a whole and in the Reference Division, the Lending Division, the Bibliographic Services Division, and the Research and Development Department. Listed are 73 references. (RBF)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interlibrary Loans, Library Catalogs, Library Circulation
Jaros, Joe – Wilson Library Bulletin, 1984
Description of the rapid growth and development of Texas A&M's Sterling C. Evans Library during the past decade focuses on collection growth to over 1.4 million volumes, staffing increases, automated programs and services including over 100 microcomputers for computer-assisted instruction housed in Learning Resources Department, and online…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Higher Education, History, Library Automation
Peer reviewedHary, Nicoletta Mattioli – Third World Libraries, 1995
Describes the Hosseinieh Ershad Public Library, a model library established in Iran after the Islamic Revolution that contains a predominant religious collection. Reviews the library's historical background, current cataloging system, collections and their circulation, services to blind patrons and children, funding and staff. Photographs of the…
Descriptors: Blindness, Cataloging, Childrens Libraries, Foreign Countries
