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Download full textSan Francisco Public Library, CA. Bay Area Reference Center. – 1973
In a two-day workshop at the San Francisco Public Library, the staff of the Bay Area Reference Center (BARC) led discussions on how the library can serve as a community information and referral center. Various speakers reviewed the problems and possibilities of such a service and presented guidelines for the establishment, volunteer staffing, and…
Descriptors: Community Information Services, Community Organizations, Community Resources, Community Services
California State Library, Sacramento. – 1986
Introductory materials for these proceedings list acknowledgements and roundtable participants, provide the roundtable agenda, and present both the roundtable goal--to improve the quality of community information services in California public libraries through the development of a plan and program focus for the California State Library--and four…
Descriptors: Community Information Services, Library Planning, Library Role, Needs Assessment
Humes, Barbara A.; And Others – 1996
This document summarizes the activities of a 2-day conference (April 12-13, 1995) during which educators heard eight papers and discussed federal research priorities in the areas of libraries, community-based education, and lifelong learning. Libraries, museums, agricultural extension services, religious organizations, health care organizations,…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Community Education
Emporia State Univ., KS. School of Library and Information Management. – 1989
In September 1988, the Public Library/Trustees Section of the Kansas Library Association, with the support of the School of Library and Information Management at Emporia State University and the Kansas State Library, held a conference on economic vitality. Following a "Review and Preview" by Martha Hale, Dean of the School of Library and…
Descriptors: Community Information Services, Economic Development, Economic Opportunities, Information Needs
National Library of Australia, Canberra. – 1978
Speeches, papers, and summaries of group discussions from Australia's 1978 national seminar on library services for the visually and physically impaired are presented. The opening and keynote addresses are followed by two papers dealing with the present state of services in Australia and other nations, two papers on the library service needs of…
Descriptors: Community Role, Conference Reports, Facility Requirements, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedYoung, Diana, Ed. – Public Libraries, 1987
Provides background information and copies a report by Marlys Cresap and Marilyn Nickelsburg on a statewide conference of children's librarians. Highlights include a survey of children's services in Iowa libraries and presentations on the history and philosophy of children's services (Margaret Bush) and the role of children's librarians (Barbara…
Descriptors: Community Needs, Library Planning, Library Role, Library Services
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). Programme on Educational Building. – 1998
School libraries are changing due to developments in information technology, teaching and learning methods, and society. A meeting of 28 experts from 16 countries was convened to better understand current trends in tertiary libraries and the effect of these trends on the demand, organization, and design of libraries. Participants agreed that the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Educational Facilities Design, Educational Trends, Foreign Countries
Browne, Mairead, Ed. – 1981
Pre-circulated papers, comments on these papers, documents compiled as a result of group discussion, and resolutions adopted at Australia's 1980 National Workshop on Joint-Use Libraries are presented. A joint-use library is defined as one in which two or more distinct groups of users are given equal priority in the same premises, the governance of…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Community Centers, Contracts, Foreign Countries
PDF pending restorationWaddock, Sandra A.; And Others – 1979
This comprehensive report of the pre-White House Massachusetts Governor's Conference on Libraries and Information Services includes background and planning information, a summary of events and speeches at the conference, and the resolutions resulting from the conference. Participants were predominantly lay people with some representatives of the…
Descriptors: Business Responsibility, Citizen Participation, Community Surveys, Conference Reports
PDF pending restorationDepartment of the Interior, Washington, DC. Office of Library Services. – 1980
Preparatory and follow-up activities as well as proceedings are described in this report of a conference that brought representatives of 103 tribes together to discuss and lay the groundwork for comprehensive improvement of library and information services for Indian communities served by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Chapters I, II, and III…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Reservations, American Indians, Community Information Services
O'Dell, Janelle E., Ed. – 1993
The Arizona Educational and Informational Telecommunications Cooperative (AEITC) hosted the Arizona Telecommunications Issues and Policy Symposium in order to provide a forum for telecommunications discussions, planning, and cooperation; bring together Arizona telecommunications leaders from the education, industrial, military, government, and…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Business, Community Involvement, Computer Networks
