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Computers and the Historic Milieu of Health Services Libraries.
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Brodman, Estelle – Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, 1985
Discusses factors that combined to make it possible for health sciences libraries to take initiative for developing technological methods and skills needed for computer librarianship before other types of libraries entered the field: size, money, medical center background, requirements of users, state of health science libraries and librarians,…
Descriptors: Computers, Higher Education, History, Library Automation
The Polish Collection at the Alliance College Library in Cambridge Springs, PA: The Origins of the Collection in 1950, Its Rapid Development in the 1970's and the Introduction of the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) in 1982.
Kozaczka, Stanley J. – 1983
This essay outlines the development, present condition, and future direction of the 20,000-volume Polish research collection at Alliance College, located in Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania. Alliance College was founded in 1912 by the Polish National Alliance (PNA), a life insurance fraternal organization. In 1931 its entire library collection was…
Descriptors: Cataloging, College Libraries, Higher Education, History
The Changing Instructional Role of the High School Library Media Specialist: 1950-84; A Survey of Professional Literature, Standards, and Research Studies.
Craver, Kathleen W. – School Library Media Quarterly, 1986
Although a review of the literature on the instructional role of the media specialists reveals a pattern of progression from 1950 to 1984, analysis of the research in this area indicates a time lag between actual practice and the instructional role espoused by the standards and the literature. (EM)
Descriptors: Change, Cooperative Planning, Curriculum Development, High Schools