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Understanding Faculty Perceptions of the Future: Action Research for Academic Librarians
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Malenfant, Kara Josephine – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The intent of this study was to aid academic librarians in examining their perceptions of the future of higher education, engaging disciplinary faculty members to understand their views, and determining actions to take to shape the future. In this mixed methods study, scenarios about the future of higher education served as the basis for…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Action Research, Strategic Planning, Focus Groups
How Libraries Grow: A Brief Look Backward (and Forward).
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Seibert, Warren F. – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1985
This reexamination of earlier forecasts and statistics related to research library growth--Purdue studies first published in 1965, data and forecasts from Fremont Rider's 1944 book--shows mixed results for evidence of continuing rapid growth of collections and acquisition expenditures and marked decline in acquisition rates. (16 references) (EJS)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Futures (of Society), Graphs, Library Collection Development
Multiculturalism: Affirmative or Negative Action?
Peterson, Lorna – Library Journal, 1995
Defines multicultural groups, discusses the evolution of multiculturalism, analyzes the "one-third myth," which says that America will be one-third minority by the year 2000, discusses statistical multicultural theories, and reviews laws and regulations that provide equality in jobs and education. Also examines multicultural trends in…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Cultural Pluralism, Equal Education, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)