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Download full textVelasquez, Diane L.; Evans, Nina; Kaeding, Joanne – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2016
Introduction: This paper reports the findings of a study of risk management in public libraries. The focus of the research was to determine whether the libraries had a risk management and disaster plan for major disasters. Method: A qualitative study was done to investigate risk management and disaster recovery in public libraries in South…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Risk Management, Emergency Programs, Public Libraries
Konkel, Mary S. – 1990
Library environments and the methods of providing services to library patrons are drastically changing with the availability of new technologies. Online public access catalogs are replacing card catalogs, CD-ROM databases have encroached upon the domain of their paper counterparts, and newspapers, encyclopedias, and dictionaries are also available…
Descriptors: Career Change, Job Satisfaction, Librarian Attitudes, Library Technical Processes
Charton, Michael – 1996
The purpose of this paper is to show the growing use of the World Wide Web to answer questions in the public library from the perspective of a librarian at the Parsippany Public Library in Morris County, New Jersey. Discussion includes the following: information on Parsippany and Morris County; a brief history of the World Wide Web; uses of a…
Descriptors: Information Services, Information Sources, Internet, Librarian Attitudes
The Role of Public Libraries in the Use of Internet/NREN Information Services: Preliminary Findings.
McClure, Charles R.; And Others – Proceedings of the ASIS Mid-Year Meeting, 1992
Presents preliminary results of a survey that explored public library roles in the use of Internet/NREN (National Research and Education Network) services. Key issues are identified, including risks and barriers to network use, access, suggested services, professional association role, and committing resources; and recommendations to facilitate…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Futures (of Society), Internet, Librarian Attitudes
International Federation of Library Associations, The Hague (Netherlands). – 1990
The 15 papers in this collection include opening remarks, reports on core programs of the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA), and papers from a contributed papers session. Contents are: (1) "Opening Speech of the IFLA General Conference: Stockholm 1990" (Hans-Peter Geh), in German, with an English translation; (2)…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Databases, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries
Auster, Ethel; Chan, Donna C. – Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting, 2003
Examines some of the factors affecting the participation of librarians in professional development activities. Reference librarians working in large urban public libraries in Ontario were surveyed. Data on participation in formal and informal learning activities, together with information about their perceptions of their libraries' environment…
Descriptors: Employee Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Learning Activities, Librarian Attitudes
International Federation of Library Associations, The Hague (Netherlands). – 1990
Five of the six papers in this collection focus on public library services, collection development problems, and involvement in literacy campaigns in developing countries; the sixth paper is concerned with public library services in Norway. (1) In "Big Cities, Its Inhabitants and Public Libraries Systems," May Brooking Negrao examines…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
