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Download full textMcGlamery, Patrick – 1999
This paper addresses the library collection development of spatial information in cartographic format. Highlights include: the impermanent nature of maps; changes in spatial information creation, storage, processing, and management resulting from developments in computer-based information technology; steps required to download the digital version…
Descriptors: Cartography, Information Technology, Internet, Library Collection Development
Balatti, David – 2001
This paper discusses the creation and evolution of "Canadiana," the national bibliography of Canada. Highlights include: (1) the need for national bibliographic services; (2) the comprehensive scope of Canada's national bibliography, which includes works about Canada and foreign-published items written by Canadians in addition to titles…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Conferences, Foreign Countries, Library Role
Melcher, Daniel – School Library Journal, 1973
The author explores the question, Would children learn to read as early as they learn to talk if we let them?'' (Author/SJ)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Early Reading, Learning Motivation, Libraries
Laughlin, Mildred – Learning Today, 1973
Suggestions for enticing the public into libraries are presented. (1 reference) (SM)
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Librarians, Library Planning, Library Role
Broderick, Dorothy – School Library Journal, 1971
Librarians of our time have unilaterally broken the covenant that existed between the community and the library. In the name of intellectual freedom we defend materials that perpetuate attitudes that hinder the growth of individuals who are intellectually free. (14 references) (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Censorship, Library Role, Moral Issues
Unesco Bulletin for Libraries, 1972
This is the revision of the 1949 Unesco public library manifesto which was prepared by the Public Libraries Section of the International Federation of Library Associations for International Book Year. (SJ)
Descriptors: International Organizations, International Programs, Library Role, Library Services
Herman, Gertrude – School Library Journal, 1972
Visits to the Open Corridor Schools in New York City were made to search out the role of the library and the librarian in these informal education situations. (2 references) (NH)
Descriptors: Informal Organization, Librarians, Library Role, Open Plan Schools
Jones, Kathleen – Library Association Record, 1971
An account of the rapid growth of a relatively new area of knowledge, and some of the problems in information storage and retrieval involved are presented. (4 references) (Author)
Descriptors: College Libraries, Education, Information Retrieval, Information Storage
Field, Carolyn – School Library Journal, 1971
Greater use can be made of fewer materials if there is public library and school library involvement in satisfying the library needs of all children. (Author)
Descriptors: Children, Information Needs, Library Role, Library Services
Peer reviewedImpellizzeri, Anne E.; Mullan, Eunice G. – Top of the News, 1971
Libraries are rated by several gifted children and the parent of a gifted child after which a librarian describes an open access" policy of one library and urges other libraries to consider such a change. (NH)
Descriptors: Children, Gifted, Librarians, Libraries
Bundy, Mary Lee – Library Journal, 1971
A report to the profession on the status of the urban information specialist project at the University of Maryland is presented. (Author)
Descriptors: Librarians, Library Education, Library Role, Library Schools
Millis, Charlotte Hickman – Library College Journal, 1971
Descriptors: Bibliographies, College Libraries, Educational Innovation, Library Role
Peer reviewedNeedle, Burgess – English Journal, 1983
Recounts in personal terms the role of the librarian in the high school. (JL)
Descriptors: High Schools, Librarians, Library Role, Reference Services
Modra, Helen M. – Australian Journal of Reading, 1981
Describes the Australian public library system's involvement in literacy programs. (HTH)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Library Role, Library Services, Literacy
Pugh, Mary Jo – Drexel Library Quarterly, 1979
Discusses four types of services requested of libraries and strategies for providing them: collecting material about oral history, collecting published and semi-published oral history transcripts for research, serving as a repository for unique oral history materials, and establishing a program to create new oral histories. References are…
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Cataloging, Costs, Interviews
