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Download full textWisconsin State Dept. of Public Instruction, Madison. – 2000
This document is designed to help Wisconsin libraries plan for and achieve service levels that meet the ever-changing needs of local residents. The "Wisconsin Public Library Standards" has evolved gradually over the years, and this edition addresses the changes and challenges libraries have experienced since publication of the 1994…
Descriptors: Library Automation, Library Development, Library Policy, Library Services
Texas State Library, Austin. Library Development Div. – 1999
This document contains the Texas Library Systems Act and rules for administering the Library Systems Act. Specifically, it includes the following documents: Texas Library Systems Act; Summary of Codes;Texas Administrative Code: Service Complaints and Protest Procedure; Criteria For Texas Library System Membership; and Certification Requirements…
Descriptors: Libraries, Library Development, Library Policy, Library Standards
Colorado State Dept. of Education, Denver. State Library and Adult Education Office. – 1997
In accordance with a long range plan for libraries in Colorado, a committee was appointed to develop the first standards for basic library service in Colorado public libraries. Libraries and their boards may use this document as a workbook for assessing their library and its services, as well as a document to assist in planning for the library's…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Library Administration, Library Collection Development, Library Cooperation
Louisiana State Library, Baton Rouge. – 1996
This document provides the 5-year (1997-2001) library plan for public libraries in Louisiana. It seeks to identify specific inadequacies in public library services, resources, facilities, and personnel. It also identifies the people who are to be served, and reveals geographical, sociological, economic, and educational barriers to the expanded use…
Descriptors: Demography, Library Development, Library Planning, Library Services
Alaska State Library, Juneau. – 1998
This document outlines the Alaska State Plan for 1998-2002 prepared in accordance with the Library Services and Technology Act. The overall goal of the State Library program is to assure access for all Alaskans to the library resources necessary to meet informational, educational, cultural, and recreational needs. Population characteristics…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Cooperative Programs, Educational Resources, Information Sources
Michigan Library, Lansing. – 1997
In 1937, the Michigan Library Association recommended to the Legislature that state funding be provided to public libraries and that a state board for libraries be appointed. In 1965, Public Act 286 established 24 library systems whose membership comprised approximately one-third of the public libraries in the state. Under Public Act 89 of 1977,…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Information Services, Library Development, Library Funding
Georgia's Five-Year Library Services and Technology Act Plan, October 1, 1997 to September 30, 2002.
Georgia State Dept. of Technical and Adult Education, Atlanta. – 1997
With the intention that Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) funds provide for the continual improvement and enhancement of all library and information services in Georgia, this five-year plan addresses the LSTA law by establishing major statewide priorities and supporting goals and activities/objectives that reflect the purposes and…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Federal Aid, Grants, Library Development
California State Postsecondary Education Commission, Sacramento. – 1991
This report examines the newly proposed systemwide library plan of the California State University (CSU), which will govern the planning and development of library space on CSU campuses for the next 10 years. The commission's report evaluates the state university's updated library space standards and discusses policy issues that relate to on-site…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Information Technology, Library Administration
Utah State Library, Salt Lake City. – 1999
This five-year plan for the administration of Utah's Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) program contains the following sections: (1) principles; (2) assumptions; (3) the current scene of Utah libraries, including public libraries, academic libraries, school library media centers, and private and research libraries; (4) establishment of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid, Grants
Tubesing, Richard – 1989
This manual for the College of the Southwest (New Mexico) library delineates collection development policies and procedures for library and teaching faculty. The first section deals with collection development and maintenance responsibilities: knowledge of the collection; knowledge of college and course needs; library materials budget allocations;…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Higher Education, Library Acquisition, Library Collection Development
Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1958
Never before has a fully informed citizenry been more important to the present and future well-being of the Nation than it is today. And yet, recent investigations have shown that 27 million of our children and adults live in areas without any public library service, and 53 million more have only inadequate book and information services available…
Descriptors: Educational History, Budgets, Bibliographies, Educational Facilities
Alabama Public Library Service, Montgomery. – 1988
This report presents and explains new standards developed for Alabama public libraries in response to a need for a clearly articulated, easily used, and broadly based public library planning and development tool. Intended to provide an overview of the new standards, the introduction discusses why the standards were developed; their purposes; how…
Descriptors: Library Administration, Library Associations, Library Collection Development, Library Networks
Roselle, Ann; Chan, Karen – 1997
This collection development policy serves as a guide for the selection and retention of depository government documents by the Government Publications Unit of the Kennedy Memorial Library of Eastern Washington University (EWU) in Cheney, Washington. The library selects approximately 65 percent of the depository items distributed by the U.S.…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Government Publications, Higher Education, Library Collection Development
Packer, Donna; And Others – 1986
This collection development policy provides a framework within which library faculty subject specialists at Western Washington University make library material acquisition decisions. The collection policies address aspects of collection scope and collection intensity, current needs and long-term goals of the university's academic program and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Administrative Policy, Higher Education, Library Administration
Wilson, Lucy, Comp. – 1989
This manual begins by providing background on the program, collection, and acquisition processes of the Raymond Walters College (RWC) Learning Resources Center. The next section describes collection development policies for: (1) the academic departments (Animal Health; Behavioral Sciences; Biology; Business and Economics; Chemistry; Dental…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Higher Education, Learning Resources Centers, Library Acquisition
