A national probability sample was made to survey the costs, the characteristics of materials loaned and borrowed, and the present and future magnitude of interlibrary loans for academic libraries. From a sample of 80 libraries it was found that the cost of a filled loan request varied between two and seven dollars and that lending cost per…

An eight-question survey was mailed to every fifth home in Plainedge, New York, on January 10, 1974. The questionnaires were color coded according to election districts to aid in determining if there were any differences in attitudes toward, or use of, the library, in relation to location, or possible correlation with census tract data relating to…

In order to correct the existing breach between the educational researcher and the educator, it is advocated that Action Research replace the "common sense" approach used by most educators. The history of Action Research is traced and a comparison between formal educational research, Action Research, and the "common sense" approach is made.…

The results of a project designed to perform a technical audit and a user audit of the Shared Cataloging Support Sub-System of the New England Library Information Network (NELINET) are summarized in a two volume report. This portion, Volume I contains the narrative text; Volume II (LI 004 446) contains various tabulations of collected data.…

The purpose of the report was to examine the readability of the Occupational Information Access System (OIAS) QUEST questionnaire and the validity of independent client use of the questionnaire as an information gathering device. Readability formulas rate the QUEST questionnaire "easy" or "fairly easy" and they rank the…

Information transfer requirements were investigated and analyzed for the time period 1970 to 1985. Demands for information transfer services were identified and isolated in the order of their apparent relative importance, using the market potential of a particular information need as a major criterion. Relative potential payoff, and functional…

The primary purposes of this investigation are to identify student and faculty attitudes toward the community college library and to determine faculty and student use of the library. Information was gathered from students and faculty in three junior colleges in Illinois during the fall semester 1969-70. Examination of existing facilities finds…

The three objectives of this study of the Five Associated University Libraries (FAUL) are: (1) an evaluation of the FAUL Acquisition Committee; (2) a feasibility study of cooperative resource development; and, (3) guidelines and recommendations to analyze the research collections. It is determined that for effective co-operative resource…

After sketching the growth and general characteristics of library literature, the author examines what librarians think about the literature of librarianship. Early writers were more concerned with increasing the number of available sources than with objectively examining the literature. More recently a few historical or descriptive studies have…

The steady growth of the academic libraries reflects a true increase in the body of human knowledge. The average academic library either now has, or will have within the next few years, a severe space problem related to housing of books. The seemingly limitless growth of space needs creates problems compounded by rising costs of buildings and…

A project team was commissioned to gather information which could be used by the Reference Standards Committee of the American Library Association in their development of standards for library reference services. The metropolitan Atlanta area was selected because it includes in an accessible geographical area the entire range of types of…

The purposes of the study which this report describes were to assist the San Francisco Public Library in further documenting the need for a new main library building, to consider financial alternatives, to recommend a site, and to develop a program of facility requirements for the future. Although not an organizational study, it has considered the…

The report covers an evaluation of the Uniform Driver Improvement School (UDIS) curriculum. Included in the sample were licensed California English-speaking traffic violators from the Richmond, Stockton, San Diego, and Los Angeles areas. Overall, the results directionally favored the UDIS over the control on both post accidents and convictions,…

User needs studies often present figures indicating that documentation services systems which rely on the mails are inherently incapable of effectively supporting more than half of all research and development tasks. In addition to investigating faster ways of transmitting information, DDC has also been developing and testing systems based on…

This study revealed that the use of the NLM Documents Section is extremely modest. A total of 144 inter-library loan requests were filled by the Section in the months of January and February, 1972; most of these were from Government agencies. The study investigator recommended that: (1) the collection should be maintained by the NLM; (2) that…