A strong library and information network is important to Wisconsin because of the uneven geographic distribution of its population, the dispersion of its university resource centers and heavy concentration of book and other information resources in major cities. This report explores the potential for furthering interlibrary cooperation in…

This study outlines the types of library service required to furnish quality reference services to state agencies. The services provided by the Oregon State Library were evaluated according to the standards established by the American Library Association. Evaluation of the collection for scope and coverage in subject areas of automation,…

Chapter I is a descriptive statement of the current financial status and operations of Michigan libraries with an analysis of the implications various modes of financing have on levels and types of services. Chapter II summarizes findings from both the survey conducted by personal interviews with 45 of Michigan's public librarians, randomly…

This study contains an inventory of Indiana's present library facilities together with projections of the need for future library resources based on the population projections. To facilitate presentation and analysis of the data in this report, 14 state planning regions were used. The relevant geographic regions section defines Indiana's economic…

Two questionnaires were used to survey the information resources available to the legislative and executive branches of state government in Indiana. The questionnaires sought information on library and information resources and services currently available from where professional personnel seek information not available in their immediate offices,…

In an attempt to break down interinstitutional isolation, a group of biomedical librarians developed an interlibrary loan agreement with the specific goal of promoting better access to biomedical information for health care workers in the Metropolitan Detroit area. This is a report on the development of that agreement, which includes the…

This analysis of the demand for public library services in Franklin County, present and future, as the basis for the study's recommendations for future development of the public library system of the County, takes out in some directions new to library planning practice. The study makes a marketing and systems approach to the problem of measuring…

This is a feasibility study of a communications system for Wyoming libraries with recommendations for its installation. The basic recommendation calls upon the Wyoming State Library to undertake a demonstration project in rapid interlibrary communications, using teletype (TWX) facilities between selected libraries for a period commencing as soon…

The four types of libraries - special, academic, public, and school - collectively constitute a large part of the knowledge available in Canada. Consequently, a scientific and technical information network will be heavily dependent on these established library collections. Communications across the "type of library" boundaries is…

This study represents a market analysis of the needs, habits and desires of business firms concerning their acquisition and utilization of the information required in their work in order to improve public library services to business and industry through cooperative library action. The key recommendations were: the public library should be the…

Planning is essential for the provision of library and information services for many reasons, but especially because: (1) library and information services are not an end in themselves, they exist to further the purposes of organized society; (2) these services call for technical knowledge and some fairly sophisticated techniques; and (3) the fact…

This research report attempts to place the evaluation of the library services on a quantifiable, reproducible basis. Since the research design was developed after the project was well under way, no cause-effect inferences can be made. Each of the ten chapters covers one phase of the evaluation design: (1) Librarian's Description of the Project,…

Access to scientific and technical information is essential to the conduct of high quality research and development work. Indonesia's scientists and engineers in Government research institutes are generally not being well-served by their own libraries. The most serious deficiencies are: (1) inadequately trained library staffs, (2) lack of…

As initially conceived, this survey, one of five reports focusing on present activities and structure of the Indiana State Library was to deal with the relationships and possible overlap between the functions of the State Library and the Historical Bureau. However, it was immediately apparent that the basic problem was less one of overlapping…

This analysis provides a detailed description of Portage County and the system of library services extant. A socio-economic profile describes the county's history and geographic location, population development, school district population, life style, income, poverty, transportation and land use. Individual descriptions of the county's library…