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Download full textSikstrom, Inger Edebro; Westerlund, Mari-Ann – 2001
This report describes a study tour of Saskatoon (Canada) school libraries undertaken by a library director and the deputy director of the board of education of Umea, Sweden (October 13-21, 2001). The purpose of the study tour was to: (1) develop an awareness of the scope of modern school library programming; (2) discuss with principals and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Field Studies, Foreign Countries, Information Literacy
McCook, Kathleen de la Pena; Barber, Peggy – 2002
This chronology highlights milestones for libraries and adult lifelong learning and literacy from 1924-2001, including the following events: William S. Learned's "The American Public Library and the Diffusion of Knowledge" is published (1924); establishment of the ALA (American Library Association) Adult Education Section (1946); the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Library Associations, Library Role
Colorado State Library, Denver. – 2001
This annual report highlights the activities of the Colorado State Library for 2000-2001 in the following areas: the Library Research Service; library development; school libraries and media centers; conservation/environmental education; networking and resource sharing; World Wide Web support; institutional library service; the Colorado Talking…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Budgets, Elementary Secondary Education, Library Development
Brewer, Joseph M.; Hook, Sheril J.; Simmons-Welburn, Janice; Williams, Karen; Landesman, Margaret M.; Kyrillidou, Martha – Association of Research Libraries, 2004
ARL is the bimonthly report on research library issues and actions from ARL (Association of Research Libraries), CNI (Coalition of Networked Information), and SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition). ARL reports on current issues of interest to academic and research library administrators, staff, and users; higher education…
Descriptors: Research Libraries, Academic Libraries, Financial Support, Library Administration
Library of Congress, Washington, DC. National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped. – 1997
This directory lists library resources for individuals with blindness or physical disabilities. The first section of the directory lists National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) network libraries and machine-lending agencies arranged alphabetically by city. In several states, two regional libraries have been…
Descriptors: Blindness, Braille, Libraries, Library Collections
Craig, Judy, Ed. – Open Window, 1997
This document consists of the first two issues of the new newsletter of the National Library of Education (NLE). This newsletter is designed to provide insight into the activities and programs occurring in the newest national library. The NLE is planned to be a virtual library that will bring together both providers and users of education…
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, Federal Libraries, Internet, Library Directors
Cook, Colleen; Thompson, Bruce – 2000
The SERVQUAL measure was developed by A. Parasuraman, L. Berry, and V. Zeithaml (1988) to measure perceptions of service quality, originally in the retailing sector. However, libraries and other educational institutions are also service providers. Librarians in particular have increasingly become interested in measuring quality of service as the…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Factor Analysis, Library Services, Measurement Techniques
Weingand, Darlene E. – 2001
Since the publication of its first edition in 1965, this book has been a standard resource for setting up and managing cutting-edge small public library facilities. Completely revised and updated, this fourth edition continues that tradition with many more figures (28 in this edition), case studies and sample policies, and new content on grant…
Descriptors: Administration, Library Administration, Library Funding, Library Networks
Wallace, Danny P., Ed.; Van Fleet, Connie, Ed. – 2001
This book, written by a number of library professionals, familiarizes the reader with the motives for and purposes of evaluation and the major contexts and models for evaluation and provides explicit examples how evaluation projects have been and can be carried out in a variety of library contexts. The strategies in this book grew from the S:OLE…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Evaluation, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Meyers, Michele M. – 2000
The purpose of this study was to provide an introductory analysis of the content of the Web sites of botanical and horticultural libraries in the United States to determine what types of resources and information is included, whether or not information is organized and accessible, and to what extent botanical and horticultural libraries are using…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Archives, Botany, Horticulture
Chelton, Mary K., Ed. – 2000
For every librarian who seeks to better serve the new and unique young adult market, this completely revised edition presents 30 library programs as examples of this service. By studying the examples set by award-winning initiatives around the country, librarians should be able to answer these questions for their young adult programs: What is the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Childrens Libraries, Library Development, Library Planning
White, Herbert S. – 2000
This book is a collection of the author's following publications and speeches, primarily from 1995-2000: "Look at All Those Beautiful Birds Overhead!""Priorities for the Research Library Budget,""What Do We Give 'Em?""The Legacy of John Swan,""Small Public Libraries-Challenges, Opportunities, and Irrelevancies,""Lead Me Not into Temptation To Do…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Higher Education, Information Technology, Librarians
Deese-Roberts, Susan; Keating, Kathleen – 2000
This book proposes the application of peer tutoring to library instruction, primarily in the academic library setting. Chapter 1 provides a brief historical view of library instruction and current trends that make peer tutoring a possible form of library service. Chapter 2 describes peer tutoring as currently practiced in higher education.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Instructional Development, Library Instruction
Vermont State Dept. of Libraries, Montpelier. – 2001
This document presents the annual report for Vermont's LSTA (Library Services and Technology Act) programs for the 2001 fiscal year. Part A, "Numerical/Landscape Data," compiles numerical information on grants, applications, and awards for the fiscal year. Part B, "Promising Practices/Exemplary Programs," describes a…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Annual Reports, Federal Programs, Grants
Cain, Darrell L.; Lockee, Barbara – 2002
This literature review analyses the variety of necessary support services for distance learners and the relevance of such variables as it relates to their progress in and completion of distance-delivered programs. Nonacademic variables for purposes of this review are defined as academic support, academic advising, library support, career advising,…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, College Students, Distance Education, Higher Education
