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Daly, Rebecca; Baker, Liz; McIntosh, Lisa – Journal of Access Services, 2014
In 2011 the University of Wollongong Library undertook a significant review of its Resource Sharing services. This was prompted by constraints in the systems supporting this service, changes to the Library's key suppliers, Infotrieve Australia and the British Library Document Supply Service, and the need to deliver effective library services…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Libraries, Library Development, Shared Resources and Services
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Situ, Ping; Voyles, Jeanne – Resource Sharing & Information Networks, 2008
Libraries need to weigh the benefits, usage, and cost-effectiveness of owning collections against seeking alternatives to deliver the information needed by customers. The University of Arizona Library investigated different approaches for meeting the research needs of East Asian Studies faculty and students under great pressure of physical space…
Descriptors: Research Needs, Asian Studies, Chinese, Library Services
Veccia, Susan; And Others – 1993
This report summarizes the American Memory User Evaluation conducted during 1991-1993 in over 40 locations around the United States. The findings are based on 1800 user questionnaires, 120 user interviews, and more than 40 site visits by Library staff. American Memory describes the concept of providing electronic versions of selected Library of…
Descriptors: Information Dissemination, Information Networks, Information Services, Information Systems
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Matthews, Joseph R. – Library Hi Tech, 1997
Libraries are moving into an era that incorporates improvements of a library's existing databases, embraces the research results of the information-seeking process, and makes fundamental improvements by adding new databases such as WordFocus. These new systems should convert the frustrated user of today's online public access catalog (OPAC) into…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Databases, Information Seeking, Library Automation
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Ping, Ke – College & Research Libraries, 2002
Traces developments in China's academic libraries: managing human resources, restructuring library developments, revising and implementing new policies, evaluating services and operations, establishing library systems, building new structures, and exploring joint-use library models. Major focus was to improve services for library user. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Educational Development, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Florida State Library, Tallahassee. – 1994
In Florida, as in the rest of the country, there is a paradigm shift within libraries. Increasingly, the information necessary to respond to user needs is available electronically--sometimes only or most conveniently in electronic form. For librarians to be most effective in the electronic revolution, they need to link their libraries into a…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Information Networks, Library Cooperation, Library Development
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Stratton, John M. – Journal of Library & Information Services In Distance Learning, 2004
Academic branch libraries located at a distance from the parent institution often face unique challenges in meeting users' needs for scholarly information. This is especially true for distant branch libraries that do not have a specialized function or collection, but who often face the challenge of meeting users' needs for scholarly materials…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, User Needs (Information), Access to Information, Library Development
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Div. of Library Development. – 1993
This document, like its predecessor, will serve as a blueprint for and a means of communication about statewide library automation. The original plan introduced the concept of the electronic doorway library as a way to explain the changes occurring in the delivery of library services. Through 14 assumptions, 32 recommendations, and implementation…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Electronic Libraries, Information Technology, Integrated Library Systems
Hisle, W. Lee; And Others – 1989
Designed by Austin Community College's (ACC's) Learning Resource Services (LRS) Management Team, this plan explores the development of the LRS in preparation for the 1989 closure of the college's Ridgeview (RDV) campus, and the opening of the Northridge (NRG) and Riverside (RVS) campuses. First, the plan's executive summary lays out…
Descriptors: Budgets, College Libraries, Community Colleges, Costs
Crawford, Walt – 1999
Challenging popular prognostications and asserting that the complex mix of technologies projects suggests no clear path to the future, this book offers an alternative model to a simplistic digital future. The book is divided into four main parts. Chapters in the first part, "Being Analog," consider the need to get over the digital…
Descriptors: Change, Futures (of Society), Information Policy, Information Technology
Louisiana State Library, Baton Rouge. – 1993
This 5-year plan for the improvement of library service in Louisiana identifies specific existing inadequacies and presents specific goals and objectives as part of an overall plan to overcome barriers to the best possible library service in the state. It is noted that, in Louisiana, the State Library does not have administrative authority over…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Disabilities, Library Circulation, Library Collection Development
Idaho State Library, Boise. – 1998
In l998, Idahoans gathered in a series of six Regional Futures Conferences to identify what they thought was probable during the next ten years, what was possible for libraries to do and be, and what a preferred future of Idaho libraries might be. Participants from the regional conferences then convened to refine and focus descriptions of the…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Conferences, Futures (of Society), Information Technology
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Preece, Barbara G.; Logue, Susan – Journal of Library Administration, 1996
Describes three projects implemented by the Southern Illinois University at Carbondale's library that are designed to empower the patron: (1) patron-initiated borrowing; (2) Interlibrary Loan Link on FirstSearch databases; and (3) implementation of Web-based interlibrary loan request forms. Explains the role of institutional support and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Cooperative Planning, Databases
Wisconsin State Dept. of Public Instruction, Madison. Div. for Libraries and Community Learning. – 1995
The purpose of this long-range plan is to describe the status of library development in Wisconsin, the needs and problems of libraries, and the possible ways of meeting these needs over the next 5 years. This plan was developed by the Division for Libraries and Community Learning staff, with advice from the Library Services and Construction Act…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Resources Centers, Library Cooperation, Library Development
Wisconsin State Dept. of Public Instruction, Madison. Div. for Libraries and Community Learning. – 1995
The purpose of this long-range plan is to describe the status of library development in Wisconsin, the needs and problems of libraries, and the possible ways of meeting these needs over the next 5 years. The plan reflects reports submitted to the Division for Libraries and Community Learning staff, surveys, consultations with librarians and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Resources Centers, Library Cooperation, Library Development
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