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Peckham, Robert – 2003
The Andy Holt Virtual Library, with a focus on the Humanities and Fine Arts, is free and open to the public, though designed to serve the learning communities within the College of Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of Tennessee-Martin (UT). It also plays a resource role in UT's New College and the Tennessee Governors School for the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Electronic Libraries, Fine Arts, Humanities
Kar, Debal C.; Deb, Subrata; Kumar, Satish – Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting, 2003
Discusses the development of Electronic Library at TERI (The Energy and Resources Institute, New Delhi). Highlights include: hardware and software used; the digital library/Virtual Electronic Library; directory of Internet journals; virtual reference resources; electronic collection/Physical Electronic Library; downloaded online full-length…
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, Foreign Countries, Library Catalogs, Library Collections
Goldberg, Martin – 1995
Educators need to teach the lessons of the Holocaust in order to demonstrate the consequences of racism carried to its most frightful extreme. This paper highlights autobiographies, diaries, journals, and first person narratives in children's and young adult libraries that can be included in library programs. Textbooks used in American schools are…
Descriptors: Childrens Libraries, Childrens Literature, Course Integrated Library Instruction, Library Collections
Roosa, Mark – 2002
This paper traces the roots of the current library preservation movement and its evolution during the second half of the 20th century. It also looks at some of the contemporary shifts in thinking about preservation and changes in practice that are being explored by libraries. Finally the paper draws some conclusions as to the scope of programs in…
Descriptors: Archives, Futures (of Society), Library Collections, Library Development
Pedak-Kari, Maria – 1994
This paper provides background on The National Library of Estonia (NLE), discusses a fellowship project for developing the National Library, and presents the impressions of the author, an Estonian American, who traveled to Estonia. The NLE looks to the West for automation, information, and institutional modeling. The NLE is Estonia's equivalent of…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Background, Depository Libraries, Fellowships
Savenije, Bas; Grygierczyk, Natalia – 2000
The main function of the library of the future is to provide access to electronic sources stored elsewhere. In order to comply with the users' needs, therefore, flexible license scenarios are necessary. Another future function of the library will be to set up and maintain a personal alerting system and to assist users in organizing their own…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Electronic Libraries, Futures (of Society), Information Retrieval
Ku, Karl Min – 2001
The Web site library is a new type of digital library incorporating both digital collections and digital service. In the parliamentary context, this new application of information and communications technology has a dual function: to provide a virtual collection to satisfy users' information demands and to provide all the current services needed…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Electronic Libraries, Foreign Countries, Government Libraries
Brodie, Maxine – 2000
This paper discusses the impact of change on the State Library of New South Wales (Australia), a large public research library charged with the care and continuing use of a documentary heritage. The first section provides background on the State Library, including history, collection, mission, and use. The second section describes library clients,…
Descriptors: Archives, Foreign Countries, Information Literacy, Information Technology
Burrows, Sandra – 2001
This paper traces the development of the National Library of Canada's newspaper collection in conjunction with the Decentralized Program for Canadian Newspapers. The paper also presents a sampling from the collection in order to illustrate the rich variety of the press that has followed in the footsteps of Fleury Mesplet, one of the first printers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Library Collection Development, Library Collections, National Libraries
Grygierczyk, Natalia – 1996
This paper investigates the need for electronic provision of information, and advises that the purpose and motivation for providing electronic resources be explored before embarking on a project to provide them. Many projects at universities and other institutes have been begun arbitrarily just because there happened to be financial resources…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Computer Networks, Electronic Libraries, Foreign Countries
Haddad, Peter – 1999
The National Library of Australia has a small but interesting collection of rare books and manuscripts. These collections are the legacy of a remarkable period of growth in the library's history. Strengths are greatest in British and European materials, particularly from the 18th century. The present collecting activities of the library are…
Descriptors: Archives, Asian Studies, Foreign Countries, Library Collection Development
Diakite, Fatogoma – 1999
This paper discusses the status of library services and reading in Mali. Following an introductory section that provides miscellaneous data about Mali, the first section of the paper describes the development of libraries in Mali before the colonial period, during the colonial period, and during the independence period up to 1977. The libraries of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Audiotape Recordings, Developing Nations, Elementary Secondary Education
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, The Hague (Netherlands). – 1986
Three papers on special book collections were presented at the 1986 IFLA general conference. They include: (1) "Far Eastern Collections in the United Kingdom" (B. C. Bloomfield, United Kingdom), which discusses the background of Eastern Studies in the United Kingdom (UK) and the coordination of library provision for Far Eastern…
Descriptors: Asian Studies, Catalogs, Developed Nations, Foreign Countries
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Atkinson, Ross – College and Research Libraries, 1986
Discusses collection development policy as means to express and systematize guidelines for collection building that fulfill three basic functions: the referential, the generative, the rhetorical. Division of policy into subject categories, and use of "collection levels" to rank the collection and collecting effort for each subject are…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Guidelines, Library Administration, Library Collection Development
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, The Hague (Netherlands). – 1991
The 14 papers in this collection were presented at 6 sections of the Division of Collections and Services: (1) "Open Forum of the Division of Collections and Services Report of the Section on Acquisition and Exchange" (Ulrich Montag); (2) "Acquisition Policy of the USSR National Library Collection" (Z. P. Sorokina and S. M.…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Foreign Countries, Interlibrary Loans, Library Acquisition
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