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Download full textIndiana State Library, Indianapolis. – 1966
This study of the adequacy of library facilities in Indiana's penal institutions was undertaken at the request of a state senate committee studying the Indiana Department of Correction. The penal libraries are judged to be inadequate and their major problems with personnel, materials, services, and physical facilities are listed. Also given are…
Descriptors: Correctional Institutions, Institutional Libraries, Library Collections, Library Facilities
Shaw, Debora – 1976
Results of a survey on the classification and arrangement of microforms in 147 moderate sized college and university libraries in the United States are presented. Statistics on the size of microform holdings and arrangement of microforms are given. The absence of standards for arrangement of and access to microforms is discussed, and treatment of…
Descriptors: Classification, College Libraries, Library Facilities, Library Standards
White, Ruth M. – 1963
A comparison is made between adult services offered by public library branches located in school buildings and the services offered by independently housed branches. No recommendations are made but the report presents a summary of replies received to questionnaires sent to 70 public library systems that have branches in schools, and to 84 main…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Library Facilities, Library Planning, Library Services
Lewis, Chester M., Ed. – 1963
This selective guide for planning and equipping special libraries contains basic information on major considerations involved in structural and space requirements as well as equipment (furniture, copying equipment, and microphotographic equipment). A flow process chart, inventory check list, directory of manufacturers, and bibliography are…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Facility Expansion, Facility Requirements, Guides
California State Postsecondary Education Commission, Sacramento. – 1974
This report contains proposed standards for community college library facilities developed by the California Postsecondary Education Commission. Formulae for calculating stack space, staff space, reader station space, and total space are included in the report. Three alternative models for revising the present library standards were considered:…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Community Colleges, Facility Guidelines, Library Facilities
Birdsall, Douglas – 1980
Emphasizing the importance of the development and maintenance of a system of signs to make the library patron aware that a reliable pattern of information exists within the library, this report includes a selection of statements excerpted from Sign Systems for Libraries, a collection of papers on visual guidance systems in various types of…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Higher Education, Libraries, Library Facilities
Holland, Aurora B. – 1968
Because of increased school enrollment and the explosion of knowledge in recent years, adequate secondary school libraries assume great importance in today's educational programs. In order for the library to best serve the student, adequate provisions for the selection of instructional materials and equipment should be provided. Provision should…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Library Facilities, Library Materials, Library Research
North Dakota State Library Commission, Bismarck. – 1970
The North Dakota State Library Commission defines the public library as an agency devoted to informal education, permitting an individual to study any subject at any time, to start at any degree of difficulty, proceed at his own pace, work toward a self-determined goal, free of costs and with minimum institutional restrictions. The State Plan…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Library Cooperation, Library Education, Library Facilities
Peer reviewedRockman, Ilene R. – Education Libraries, 1981
Discusses the need for standards in education libraries and provides lists of criteria for standards in services, collection, personnel, facilities, budget, and administration and governance to be used as a starting point. A 12-item bibliography is included. (CHC)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Budgeting, Guidelines, Library Administration
Peer reviewedLavendel, Giuliana – Chemical And Engineering News, 1977
Discusses problems involved in maintaining special scientific or engineering libraries, including budget problems, remote storage locations, rental computer retrieval systems, protecting trade secrets, and establishing a magnetic tape library. (MLH)
Descriptors: Computers, Engineering, Information Retrieval, Information Systems
Peer reviewedAtuti, Richard M. – Library Review, 2001
Discusses the adaptation of existing buildings for public libraries in Kenya by the Kenya National Library Service. Topics include the role of the community; determining the suitability of adapted buildings from a library management perspective; and recommendations, including updating standards, increasing the number of professional librarians,…
Descriptors: Building Conversion, Community Role, Foreign Countries, Library Administration
Pousoulides, Dorothea – 1994
The American College of Higher Studies (ACHS) in Thessaloniki, Greece, is in the process of expanding and improving its library's collection and facilities in order to meet American regional accreditation standards. An evaluation of the college's Anatolia College Library with regard to collection, staff, services, administration and facilities was…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Cultural Differences, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries
Miller, Richard E.; Morton, Bruce – 1977
A program and policy statement was developed by librarians at the Carleton College Library to address various planning demands being made of the library, to meet the specific and idiosyncratic information needs of the academic community, and to help clarify long range goals of the library and policies by which these goals may be successfully…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Information Services, Librarians, Library Administration
DARLING, RICHARD L. – 1963
MANY PROGRAMS FOR THE CULTURALLY DEPRIVED EMPHASIZE SPECIAL TECHNIQUES IN READING INSTRUCTION. AMONG THESE TECHNIQUES ARE SMALLER CLASSES, AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS, AND LIBRARY BOOKS. THE CONTENT OF PRIMERS IS EVEN FURTHER FROM THE EXPERIENCE AND INTERESTS OF THE DISADVANTAGED CHILD THAN FOR THE AVERAGE CHILD. ALTHOUGH STUDIES INDICATE THE IMPORTANCE…
Descriptors: Child Development, Disadvantaged, Elementary Education, Library Expenditures
Nebraska Library Association, Lincoln. – 1967
This is a revision of "Regional Organization for Nebraska Libraries" published in 1962, which described the statewide program for library cooperation begun in 1962, proposing a regional pattern to involve all public libraries and establishment of minimum standards for the libraries designated as regional library centers. In the present…
Descriptors: Library Cooperation, Library Facilities, Library Materials, Library Planning
