"Research Library Issues" ("RLI") focuses on current and emerging topics that are strategically important to research libraries. The articles explore issues, share information, pose critical questions, and provide examples. This issue includes the following articles: (1) ARL Library Budgets after the Great Recession, 2011-13…

"Research Library Issues" ("RLI") focuses on current and emerging topics that are strategically important to research libraries. The articles explore issues, share information, pose critical questions, and provide examples. This issue includes the following articles: (1) Special at the Core: Aligning, Integrating, and…

This article describes a case study that best illustrates the value of student workers in university libraries, focusing particularly on how this kind of creative endeavor benefits everyone involved--the library, the students, the faculty, and at the end of the project: the university community. (Contains 1 table.)

During the period in which Duane Webster led the Association for Research Libraries (ARL), powerful commercial interests sought for their own financial purposes the information resources essential for providing education and performing research. Juxtaposed was the Internet with its inherent capacity to democratizing these resources. Commercial…

Individuals who have been actively involved with the program comment on specific aspects. (PF)

The 1974 activities of the Office of University Library Management Studies included the review and continued improvement of the Management Review and Analysis Program, a technique for the self-evaluation of library organization and performance. The services of the Systems Procedure and Exchange Center, a center for the sharing of information on…

There is a need for increased efficiency and effectiveness in the employment of the library's human resources. Performance appraisal can serve as a basis for salary and advancement decisions, career development, and performance improvement. Three criteria for performance appraisal can be distinguished: (1) the trait approach, (2) the job…

Future directions for the Office of University Library Management Studies include the development and extension of new applications of their Management Review and Analysis Program (MRAP). A management audit, which would telescope MRAP into a diagnostic tool for use by research libraries, and the Services Development Program, which would provide a…

The Systems and Procedures Exchange Center's (SPEC) Kits contain up-to-date information on the latest issues of concern to college and academic libraries and librarians today. This subject index to SPEC Kits covers all kits currently available from the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Office of Management Services. Under each subject…

Economic difficulties for the university library made it necessary to assess the library needs of faculty and students in teaching and research. Proposed are several functions for the library committee: a new linkage to the University, planning and management, and cost-benefit research. (Author)

Some of the conditions in research libraries which have shaped the Office of University Library Management Studies' (OMS) approach to library management studies are outlined, OMS activities during 1976 are described, as well as priorities for 1977. OMS work with member libraries in 1976 indicated that research libraries are primarily concerned…

The Office of University Library Management Studies (OMS) activities which are reviewed include providing member libraries with resources and services ranging from research and development programs to information collection and dissemination programs and training. In addition to conducting Management Skills Institutes and regional and special…

As research libraries have grown, a trend has developed to recruit specialists to support the administrative and technical functions of the library. Business, planning, automation, personnel, and facilities specialists are among those currently employed. Libraries which utilize such specialists experience significant gains in flexibility to…

This article describes background and study process used by a committee of librarians and library administrators at Cornell University that has, over the past few years, significantly changed the structure of the paraprofessional staff classification scheme. Job Review Committee recommendations and job titles by "family" (library aide,…