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Moreillon, Judi – Knowledge Quest, 2013
Traditionally, school librarians have had two main strategies for impacting the literacy development of students in their schools. One way is through reading promotion efforts: book talks, book displays, or online book trailers, and literacy events such as book fairs, contests, and reading incentive programs. The other way has been through…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Library Services, Library Materials, Library Development
Paton-Ash, Margie; Wilmot, Di – South African Journal of Education, 2015
There is no national policy for school libraries which compels school governing bodies and principals to have a library in their schools. It is thus not surprising that in 2011, only 21% of state schools had libraries, only 7% had stocked libraries and 79% of schools had no library at all (Department of Basic Education (DBE) Republic of South…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Libraries, Barriers, Performance Factors
Bowman, Adam C. – Journal of Access Services, 2013
The purpose of this study was to explore the adaptive measures that academic libraries perform when implementing and operating a 24-hour schedule. Five in-depth interviews were conducted with current managerial-level librarians at 24-hour academic libraries. The exploratory interviews revealed similar measures for security, budgeting, employee…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Scheduling, Interviews, Librarian Attitudes
Hinchliffe, Lisa Janicke; Malenfant, Kara – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2010
The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) has a long history of data collection, environmental scanning, and trends analysis. Its most recent work, "Futures Thinking for Academic Librarians," uses a 15-year horizon to look beyond the worries of the current economic cycle and the short-term future in order to anticipate the changing…
Descriptors: Research Libraries, Academic Libraries, Librarian Attitudes, Library Development
Lawrence, Peg; Weber, Lynne – Journal of Access Services, 2008
This article discusses some of the premigration tasks at Minnesota State Mankato in preparation for migration to a new integrated library system, ALEPH. The authors describe the review of circulation policies to make sure that only relevant, current data and practices were carried over. There is emphasis on the need for ongoing review of policies…
Descriptors: Library Networks, Library Automation, Library Development, Library Materials

Jacobs, Neil; Morris, Anne – Education for Information, 1999
The eLib-funded FIDDO (Focused Investigation of Document Delivery Options) project provides library managers/others with information to support policy decisions. Senior libraries were interviewed about the future of document delivery and interviews were analyzed with the support of NUD*IST (Nonnumerical Unstructured Data by Indexing, Searching and…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Decision Making, Document Delivery, Electronic Libraries

Emergency Librarian, 1991
Comments on the research finding that the personal convictions of the teacher-librarian about what is made available to secondary school students are more influential in the censorship of school library materials than external pressures to censor by school and community members. (six references) (MAB)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Censorship, Learning Resources Centers, Librarian Attitudes

Spigai, Fran – Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 1991
Reviews the events and the literature of 1986-90 concerned with the pricing of research and professional materials for libraries. Serials are discussed, including pricing studies and price indexes, publisher's views, and the need for a new paradigm of scholarly publishing; monographs are considered; and electronic publishing is addressed,…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Cost Indexes, Electronic Publishing, Librarian Attitudes