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Haka, Clifford H.; Stevens, Nancy – 1985
The increased demand for library materials resulting from improved bibliographic access due to automation, and auditors' demands for more accurate accounting of library assets/holdings, have made it increasingly important that the discrepancy between the catalog and the materials in the stacks be reduced. This paper identifies many of the benefits…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cost Estimates, Facility Guidelines, Facility Inventory
Peer reviewedWhalen, Lucille; And Others – Reference Librarian, 1986
This 16-article issue focuses on history, policy, services, users, organization, evaluation, and automation of the archival reference process. Collections at academic research libraries, a technical university, Board of Education, business archives, a bank, labor and urban archives, a manuscript repository, religious archives, and regional history…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Archives, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Download full textMcCombs, Gillian M. – 1985
To gather information on current catalog maintenance practices, researchers selected institutions from respondents to the September 1984 version of the OMS (Office of Management Studies) Automation Inventory of Research Libraries. A telephone survey of technical services and systems staff at 23 libraries investigated a wide range of issues related…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Administrative Organization, Databases, Higher Education
Wanger, Judith; And Others – 1981
Designed to facilitate communications in future automation projects between library and data processing personnel, especially those projects involving the use of automated systems in the service of disabled patrons, this guide identifies and describes a master set of major circulation system requirements and design considerations, and illustrates…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Library Automation, Library Circulation, Library Networks
Miller, David C.; Baratz, Daphna – 1982
Designed for use by study coordinators, library supervisors, and data collectors, this manual is the basic reference and training document from the 1982 field survey of public online catalog users and nonusers in 31 U.S. research, academic, community college, public, and governmental libraries. The field survey was coordinated by the Research…
Descriptors: Card Catalogs, Data Collection, Guidelines, Library Automation
Townley, Charles T. – Drexel Library Quarterly, 1981
Describes and illustrates Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) procedures appropriate for book collection data analysis. Several different procedures for univariate, bivariate, and multivariate analysis are discussed, and applications of procedures for book collection studies are presented. Included are 24 tables illustrating output…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Computer Graphics, Computer Programs, Data Processing
